When are Black women going to get over their Billion dollar addiction?

[UpAndComing]

Black women spend over half a trillion dollars on perms, weaves, and other hair straightening products

What Spending A Half A Trillion Dollars on Hair Care and Weaves Says About Us

African Americans spent $507 billion (out of our total estimated buying power of $836 billion) in 2009 on hair care and personal grooming items, according to an annual report published by Target Market News. This figure is up 16.6% from the $435 billion spent the previous year.

Yet for those who are one with the weave – the price seems worth the sacrifice. And the psycho-social condemnation does not register.

Factor in maintenance; better known as touch-ups, required every four to six weeks determined by how fast the recipients’’ natural hair grows – commercial hair placement can range between $4,000 to $80,000 a year – not including transportation, child care or lost productivity incurred by the three to eight hours required to complete the process.

Stacey Clark, a Washington DC professional falls in this category. She first crafted a new look using weave when she was in high school.

“Back then (in the late 80s) I believe everyone tried to pretend (the weave) was theirs,” Clark joked

But what about when hair placement is more than just a fashion twist? For many African American women, the perception of them as having “Good Hair” is an embedded part of their self esteem. Some can’t and will not be seen without weave despite the cost and the time required to achieve it.

True Life: I’ve Spent $25,000 on Weave in My Lifetime

Erikka Yancy, who, due to insecurity about her appearance, spent $25,000 on weaves over the course of her adult life

- How can you have children with a women who is going to teach their daughter from birth that their hair in inherently inferior?
- How can Black women who don't wear natural hair say that they are down for the cause or Black empowerment, when they are pumping $500 Billion to white products, to look like Non-Black women?

 

[HeavyTheDon]

Never. The natural hair thing is moving but they still wear weave sometimes and tell you that they're natural under that musty ass sh1t. I even see chicks wearing weave that's the texture of their natural hair and that's very confusing.

 

[lowkey0z]

never..

 

[Shazeer Fitzgerald]

Whenever the system stops promoting the lie that straight hair is more beautiful than natural hair.

Whenever the system stops job discrimination based on hair naturally found on black folks

 

[MikelArteta]

So happy my girl doesn't do that weave crap, so tacky and nasty

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

It's not just black women breh. US men spend heavy amounts on our hair as well.

1) Weekly barbershop vists ( shape-ups or haircuts)
2) Grease or hair butter ( everyday breh)
3) Durags for waves
4) How much we spend on shea butter ( yellow or white) and black soap ( if you don't use black soap, you a fool)?

* Its not just black women

 

[luckyse7enz]

Oh shyt, finally stumbled into the first page of a TLR weave debate. :lupegarvey:

Shout-out to everyone back home in Detroit. Westside. Happy Birthday to my little bro. #TSC, what up!

Keep it clean, brehs and brehettes.

 

[Poitier]

nowhere does it say that billion dollars is entirely weave and perms. a large portion of that is creams, butters, soaps and other non-hair related items hence "personal grooming products." btw natural hair cost a ton to upkeep so the money is getting spent regardless. dudes that fixate on this are gay as hell though.

 

[Tropical Fantasy]

It's not just black women breh. US men spend heavy amounts on our hair as well.

1) Weekly barbershop vists ( shape-ups or haircuts)
2) Grease or hair butter ( everyday breh)
3) Durags for waves
4) How much we spend on shea butter and black soap ( if you don't use black soap, you a fool)?

* Its not just black women

Hair cut is MAX 30 bucks. Durag is like 2 dollars. Grease is like 3 dollars (not many dudes use it anyway)

that's nothing compared to what these chicks out in their head.

there are women spending hundreds (sometimes thousands) of dollars on bundles of hair that does not grow from their head

plus salon visits (which can run you a couple hundred for a good hairdresser)

 

[Dominoes]

Just lie and let it be known that the companies are owned by Black men that date non-Black women

 

[Poitier]

Hair cut is MAX 30 bucks.

if you have braids or dreads then its substantially more and thats a weekly upkeep if you really want your hair to look fresh. no, its not the same as what women pay but we're being dishonest if we say men don't spend a ton on upkeep either.

 

[Birdie]

When Black women actually start loving being Black(and not put up a front) they'll stop wasting their in come on being a poor imitation of a white/non-black woman. From my experience the mixed and even lighter skinned Black women typically don't have these problems which is why I generally choose to date them so I don't have to put up with that nonsense.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I ask myself this shyt all the time.

And their excuses for it, are patently ridiculous and are inherently filled with varying degrees of self-hate.

They're never going to convince me that they have a valid argument for continuing to invest in that bullshyt either.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

It's not just black women breh. US men spend heavy amounts on our hair as well.

1) Weekly barbershop vists ( shape-ups or haircuts)
2) Grease or hair butter ( everyday breh)
3) Durags for waves
4) How much we spend on shea butter ( yellow or white) and black soap ( if you don't use black soap, you a fool)?

* Its not just black women

This is bullshyt.

Listen. The ONLY thing we could say is that black men should be more free in corporate america to grow their hair out instead of getting caesars.

Brushing your hair, or getting a haircut, which EVERY HUMAN does (personally I'm on about a 3-4 week rotation cause I like my hair a little longer with more waves) is not the same as BUYING HAIR THAT DOES NOT NATURALLY REPRESENT YOUR BIOLOGICAL DETERMINATION OR USING CHEMICAL SUBSTRATES TO CHANGE THE PHENOTYPE OF YOUR BIOLOGICALLY DETERMINED HAIR...is not remotely the same thing.

Don't insult my intelligence with this false equivalency.

 

[Poitier]

Dudes who don't get p*ssy in here fuming over weave as per usual on The Coli