Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, Streaming to the goodness of the Lord- For wheat and new wine and oil, For the young of the flock and the herd; Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, And they shall sorrow no more at all.
When I see a so called baddie I have never ever thought “wow there goes a wealthy woman.” I only think of them as a rapper, an aspiring rapper or a hood chick who wants to be like a female rapper or become a groupie. Ijs
The baddie subculture reminds me of the twilight zone. Everyone looks alike. There's no uniqueness about anyone anymore. Now all these women have the same lace front,the same slicked down baby hair,the same eyelashes,the same breast implants,the same snatched waist,the same bbl,the same skin tight fashion nova outfit.
I think baddie culture is rooted in racial ambiguity you were not supposed to look too black or too white, you have to be in a grey area. People were supposed look at you and think wat is she mixed with and you see this by the fact the your most well know baddies are and look racially ambiguous.
Especially on black women, the more "natural" the wig, the less natural it looks on the black woman. Especially those really long, shiny ones. I tend to associate women who wear those types of wigs with poverty, possible prostitution, and lack of higher education...... All my healthcare practitioners are black women and not one has eyelashes that obstruct their view (moderate eyelashes is always pretty) or a lace front . Dreads more likely. But lace front; absolutely not! And those are the women I respect. Women who are SET FOR LIFE. Because they have actual careers, savings account and retirement accounts and rare skills.
What I've noticed is that baddie culture used to be about Independence and self preservation. It was supposed to be about confidence and not being fit into a mold. Being unordinary or "bad" in the terms of society. It used to be something that uplifted women.... But when baddie culture started to become attractive and perfered to some people, majority men, all of a sudden being a baddie was no longer a movement but a way to be found attractive by men. It was no longer about those qualities but all looks and show. And I aint blaming men because anybody with two sides of a brain cam see that time and time again a lot of things meant to uplift women became soley to look attractive when men started to find it attractive and pursue it. When baddie culture runs out of trend it will be something new that women will flock to to be found attractive. It isn't baddie culture that's poisoning us, its the millennium old desire to be found attractive. Women used to bleach their skin with toxic chemicals despite that it was literally killing them to be found attractive. But stopped when being natural and or tan was found attractive. When baddie culture dies, another toxic one will replace it. You cannot win, no women has ever truly won. And most women haven't truly looked at a trend and asked "is this attractive to me..? Or do I find it attractive because everyone else does..?"
I remember when you didn’t want to look fake even if you had a little work done. You were discreet because you wanted to look naturally beautiful. Now it is out in the open and a right of passage to get plastic surgery. 😢
Weaves existed in the Caribbean, not as common, you would see women wear natural hair, locs , natural extensions or even just your own relaxed hair. When I moved to the USA I was and still flabbergasted by how common weaves and this"baddie" look was amongst black women, so much so that they blur together. I see this trend starting to seep into Caribbean cultures, natural hair in public is slowly decreasing, not at bad but your see the uptick amongst Caribbean women. I wore my hair natural all my life, so the looks I get with my big afro is a bit unnerving. I didn't know why so I've been confused for months until I start looking it up. I didnt understand why it was so common. I wish natural hair wash more common. It's normalising a straight hair standard of beauty, and celebrated. It's really depressing. It's a psyop.
Every woman that gets into the baddie lifestyle finds out very quickly that they are trading in their natural beauty to eventually look like an old tired cheap prostitute/streetwalker. Every single one of them eventually gets botched, loses their real hair and then HAS to keep wearing the wigs, the constant make up ruins their skin so they then start to NEED the make up & hide the health conditions that are the reason for their expensive upkeep & lie to the general public The baddie lifestyle has turned into kind of like how the military is; you never really know til you join and once you’re in, you’re in there’s no turning back. You go into the lifestyle only to find out it’s rooted in racism and colorism and featurism and helping other cultures of women feel like we are the most unattractive women in the world that need their “natural” genetics of hair to look and feel beautiful and we need to stop. Let’s embrace only textures that are complimentary to our own textures & start embracing our natural hair as much as possible.
Im going to offer a different perspective cause some of us suffer from sickness and diseases that make us lose our hair. Wigs make us feel included. I get the general statement but everyone isnt wearing wigs becuase they want the “baddie” aesthetic
Honestly smh if that’s what they consider “elite” lmfao they can have it because to much wig wearing and weave wearing causes traction alopecia and alopecia and then they start to not feel attractive without it & now this trend against “synthetic hair” is fueling the buisness of traveling to other countries and taking other people’s hair smh I want no part of that human hair trend because it creates dangerous environments for the women in the countries it comes from it’s going to fuel human trafficking all for “bundles” & hair for people in the states that dont know that some girls in other countries are waking up to their hair being chopped off smh. No thank you I will keep wearing synthetic hair here and there and wearing my own hair. We are creating enemies by supporting this industry that literally is taking the hair off of girls hair
These hairstyles isn’t about classism, it’s rooted in racism, because it’s usually a certain texture that’s glamorized. These women are brand ambassadors, exotic dancers, escorts, and need protective styles that don’t damage their natural hair. It’s rooted in anti-black beauty standards and sex work. Black women and black people overall in America are the world’s market & #1 consumer. We fund majority of almost every buisness in the world: There is a reason why different cultures set up shop in our communities with their businesses to survive because we are the number #1 consumer for the world. We are the consumer, the model, we can bring any company to the top. Literally.
Black exotic dancers, video vixens and escorts & black trans escorts sex workers are the creators of this aesthetic. Not the Kardashians at all. The wigs came from black working women protecting their natural hair and needing a quick hairstyle to accommodate their hectic schedule without damaging their real hair anymore, black exotic dancers are responsible for the physical body standards.
Women like that make me feel plain. I never wore a lace front. But i loved a half wig. I hate the dramatic lashes. I dont have a Bbl Body. I dont wear makeup 99% of the time. Only when im going to dinner. And that's once in a while. I now wear my natural hair. I have locs
I’m 26, apart of gen z and unsubscribed from the baddie aesthetic years ago & everyone thought I was “weird” or uppity. The key was to disconnect from social media for extended period of times. IG warped EVERYTHING for me. I Used to be heavy into wigs-but no baby hairs or lace fronts! I started to obsess with making my wigs looks natural and it would take HOURS & it was stressful. it got to the point where I was just like “it doesn’t look more natural than my natural hair so why do it?” I slowly moved back to sew-ins with leave out AND I only would buy kinky straight or kinky curly hair. Ppl were shocked how “natural” my hair looked and that’s when I realized natural hair IS the true BADDIE! Bone straight, 30in bust down will never be the aesthetic for black women-I’m telling you having curly/coily/kinky hair makes us the women that stand out from the rest 🤷🏾♀️On top of that, I didn’t realize my wigs were making me look soooo much older. I was only 21 and ppl thought I was pushing late 20s to early 30s. That should be enough for us to realize a lot of this mess is aging us!
What makes a woman a baddie to me is a woman who has beautiful thick natural hair, clear skin and a fit body while also being intelligent.. A woman that has skills, hobbies and stands on business. These women on IG should be recategorized as “drag queens” because that’s what they look like.
The ig baddies are sex workers and escorts and exotic dancers. Which there’s nothing wrong with it however it’s making women who aren’t in the sex industry feel Some kind of way. & men are falling for it.
I dated a guy who wanted to be with a baddie, something I am far from and that’s my first encounter with how strong of a chokehold it has on me. I am not a baddie, neither do I aspire to be one either. I don’t admire them at all
Does it really feel that way? That people won't let you like your own hair? I can really feel that comment. Please stand proud and didn't let anyone make you not love yourself.
As a white woman, i do not ever think, oh i should make her prove that is her real hair, if i like the hairstyle i just look and appreciate it, if i don't like it, i don't really even look, unless it's very noticeable. But i never wonder if it is real or not. It may or may not be, who cares if it is stunning.
Same here. Especially on black women, the more "natural" the wig, the less natural it looks on the black woman. Especially those really long, shiny ones. I tend to associate women who wear those types of wigs with poverty, possible prostitution, and lack of higher education...... All my healthcare practitioners are black women and not one has a lace front. Dreads more likely. But lace front; absolutely not! And those are the women I respect. Women who are SET FOR LIFE. Because they have actual careers.
@moremiaj4786 Your viewpoint is a bit skewed if you think of "poverty" and :prostitution" associated with lace front wigs. I wear long, silky, lace fronts and I am neither poor nor a prostitute! I have a degree as a paralegal and I work in a large law firm. My bills are paid and I have good credit. You can't judge a book by its cover!
Synthetic hair and black hair products have been linked to cancer and endocrine disruptions. It’s interesting the more black women are moving into more natural hair and products, more non-black women are mimicking black styling techniques with synthetic hair and typical black hair products.
It’s so true about feeling like natural hair isn’t good enough after wearing wigs. I wore wigs for years after going through chemo and even when my hair grew back I preferred the wigs. My real hair was so flat and “thin”. My wigs made me look at least 5 years younger and looked so amazing in pictures.. When I stopped wearing them after awhile I stopped hating my natural hair. It really is an addiction. Great video!
My issue is not the wigs it's the excessive cleavage to every event. I saw someone wear a dress with most of her chest out to a wedding. Everything doesn't have to be raunchy.
I wonder if all the people cheering this video on and acting like these thoughts don’t come from being self hating would sit here and cheer on if she was talking about skin bleaching and skin colour in the same way she speaks on afro hair. “It’s a win for black women if they had a looser texture” Would you also cheer if she was talking about skin colour? I can bet 100% not.
you people are free to do as you wish with you hair, wigs etc, but to refuse and act like this sort of thinking all doesn’t stem from self hate is being disingenuous “Black women having a looser texture is a win for us” why is that? Exfoliant how exactly a black women having a looser texture is a “win” Do what you want, but atleast be honest. It being self hate doesn’t make you a bad person. But acknowledging the mental conditioning that has been placed over the black community to have such an outlook on their natural hair to uplift another texture that comes from being part another race is a step in the right direction in the black community getting over this hang up of having “good hair” vs “bad hair” Seriously how can y’all sit here and listen to this very pheno- typical, MONO racial Black woman sit here and say it’s a “win” to have a looser texture and cheer on and say it’s not “self hate”? LIES AND FALSEHOODS. When they start saying this about skin colour will y’all also cheer on?
I think the trans community and strippers have influenced the modern “baddie” look. The everyday woman that is gorgeous is slowly becoming the “pretty” girl and the woman with multiple aesthetic surgeries is the “baddies” n that is a clear mimic from trans women from the late 80s n 90s, often had exaggerated measurements to prove their womanly nature.. from then on I feel like it sorta became a slight competition that no one talks about
YES, I’ve seen a video years ago of a trans woman talking about the unhealthy influence they’ve created onto women and men from the dangerous basement injections and surgeries they were obsessed with in order to look like real women. Then their male clientele started believing that trans women “took better care of themselves “ & “embraced femininity “ more than real women because of the trans escorts they privately see & that created A LOT of issues for real women because men stopped realizing that trans women NEED all of these surgeries and weaves and wigs and make up because they are MEN & will not look like a woman without it. Glad you’re covering this topic because it’s getting out of hand. Smh
Ok in a brief, a baddie is an illusional (only on social media because I’ve never met none of these ppl in real life) person with insecurities (the need to look a certain way through surgery, make up, nakedness, wigs and all the acrylic nails,etc). I’m glad I’m not in this category.
I’ve seen so many women mostly usually non black women with this look, looking ridiculous along with the lace fronts and heavy makeup and I’m not speaking on the actual style and look but more so individuals who force it and I’ll delete this if it comes off as insensitive but sometimes, these women combine every single aspect of the look that it ends up looking bad. I feel like it makes them look like drag queens, which isn’t bad and if that’s what they’re going for it’s fine but most of the time that’s not the looks they’re going for. They think they look sexy but the style just doesn’t fit their features and attitude. A person that comes to mind is jenny69 in her soy la 69 mv with the blonde wig.Idk if it was the hairline or a mix of that and the strong makeup that wasn’t favoring her.
Blame Chris Rock's stupid hair movie and big mouth Wendy Williams for making it seem like we all got weave and wigs on our heads!🙄 It's beyond annoying and if somebody pull my real hair I'm not crying, going to jail!🥊🥊🤕👈👀
I’m MGM with two black parents but I have mostly 3a hair. It’s long now and I blow it dry with a round brush. I have a large section of 2c hair and occasionally I’ll find a 4b hair growing there. Also have a smaller section of 3b curls which give a beautiful wave even when I blow dry. Therefore it’s an effort to get my hair to look uniform. And humidity will turn the 3b into ringlets and make the 2c frizz. We are mixed, as is our hair pattern. Not complaining, it’s pretty hair, but not easy. I have photos taken on a humid day where one side does not shrink but has frizz (2c) and the other side (3b) has some shrinkage but goes into beautiful shiny waves or curls. If my hair dries naturally the 2c doesn’t shrink and dries in waves but the 3a/b will shrink and dry in ringlets. It’s easier to straighten the 3b side with a blow dryer and avoid frizz on the 2c side by blow drying. Welcome any suggestions. ❤ I definitely wrap my hair.
