MYTHS About 4C East African Hair - What No One Talks About!!

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I had to address this. Some people, naturally, might not like to hear what I have to say but facts are facts. Share your thoughts below.
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@lessieallen2170 3 года назад

Type 4 hair is such a blessing. Once it gets long all you have to do is add water to shorten it instead of having to cut it. No other hair type can do that. Type 4 hair can also go longer without washing and keep protective styles better and it’s usually fuller and thicker hair. I love it actually! Once caring for type 4 hair is more well know I think that it will become the preferred type.

@shwanzu9766 2 года назад

When one person belittles another, that person is not good about themselves. Since the 18th century many whites have had this need to belittle the black man in order to feel better and beautiful in the eyes of the world, by emphasizing his morphology and by imposing him as a model in the eyes of the world and to belittle that of the black man. General Denham, who had spent several months and years in black africa, explains that when he returned to europe he had the impression that whites were sick people, he was no longer used to seeing white skin. My sista Type 4 hair is such a blessing. Once it gets long all you have to do is add water to shorten it instead of having to cut it. No other hair type can do that. Type 4 hair can also go longer without washing and keep protective styles better and it’s usually fuller and thicker hair. I love it actually! Once caring for type 4 hair is more well know I think that it will become the preferred type. There is a new generation of blacks in both the French and English speaking spheres, who highlight both melanin and frizzy hair. Black Africa is waking up from its long slumber that has lasted for centuries.

@TheBrownIsland 2 года назад

*_"Preferred Type"?_* There's no preference or choice with Hair type. People are just born with a Particular Type.

@jcarp2322 2 года назад

4C is the best hair to have. It's the thickest and the fullest and very versatile.

@QueenB-pe3cq 2 года назад

And doesn’t go bald as fast thinner hair always balds as the women grow older

@gonderAmh 6 месяцев назад

Most Habesha are hypocrit, 4c type is the norm in ethiopia and eritrea, not the exception !

@SRXT09 3 года назад

I'm Somali and my grandmother has hair like yours while my mother has dead straight hair, and I have curly hair myself. Genetics is wild!

@fifi19ism 2 года назад

Im somali and egyptian my siblings on my mum's side all have straight hair but my mum has 4c hair im the only one who has curly 3c hair. Genetics is defo wild

@mohaajimaal6290 2 года назад

@@fifi19ism what

@louiscreed4026 Год назад

may I ask your dad and grandpa's hair type.?

@fruitsarelife7073 Год назад

I think the shaming for African hair is probably even worse in Somalia.

@louiscreed4026 Год назад

@@fruitsarelife7073 and then what's also ridiculous and ironic is the fact that many of individuals like that get with those ones with thicker curly hair 😒

@Beemnie-666 11 месяцев назад

East Africans have all hair types from 1a to 4c☺

@daha3074 10 месяцев назад

I'm 3c/4a and I'd say from observation that's the norm.

@redacted461 4 месяца назад

True my mom has straight hair and I have wavy hair while my sister has 3c hair lol

@Starry-ph6yx 3 месяца назад

@@redacted461 samee

@sinit111 3 года назад

This is a much needed conversation among the Eritrean community. I can dare generalize and say that all of us Eritreans have grown up with the bias of favoring the 3 type hair. However, I feel like most millennials are now starting to realize that all hair type is beautiful. Our responsibility as the younger generation now is that we make sure that those younger than us don't grow up with the same self-hatred.

@TheHabby 3 года назад

Sinit! You're braver than I am! I wasn't sure how far spread this way of thinking was so I held back. Well put!

@lynnj85 3 года назад

Agreed! Omit ignorance by teaching the future generations!

@fruitsarelife7073 Год назад

Yess our people are super colonized mentaly. They lost their own beauty standard. Like many around the world.

@sacdiyonalka1729 Год назад

Not just in eriteria also in somalia

@Maqouraddict Год назад

@@sacdiyonalka1729 in somalia its even worse

@cynthiahillian 3 года назад

It's sad but true. I've followed you as an African American 4c person. Hair and colorism is a thing, sadly. I've always thought that not colonized Africans were some how not having the same issues. Thank you for sharing this.!! Much needed for us all!!

@TheHabby 3 года назад

Hi Cynthia:) Oh boy, there is so much of that! What's worse is that the topic is so taboo so people don't even acknowledge and actively work on addressing it. I think it will get better with time and more conversation:)

@tiaras2932 3 года назад

Yes me too! This is surprising

@HereDiianas 2 года назад

@@tiaras2932 The thing is even if a country has not been officially colonized it does not mean that it has not have interaction and influenced from other countries which in the end create the same issues. Some Eastern African countries are geographically closed to arabic countries so throughout centuries there have been interactions, business exchange, immigration etc. Which is why this part of the African population is so diversed compare to Central African countries for instanve. Arabic have their own beauty standards which is far from the Black African lookS so then imagine this mindset in a black african/mixed/arabic countries... and what it means for the people whose hair, skin, body look far from that standard...

@tiahnarodriguez3809 2 года назад

I’m surprised you think this because even before colonizers arrived Africans had their own self-perpetuated issues with colorism, tribalism, etc. Then you mix in foreign influence, and the issues that were already there are magnified.

@thundermagnificent Год назад

Have to be colonized to even embrace that false notion that afro textured hair is bad.

@awetkifle8775 3 года назад

I'm Eritrean and I've got 4b hair texture. I'm appreciate my natural hair. Be yourself guys.

@thealisterr Год назад

Most of us actually got woolier hair too believe it or not. I’m Eritrean with 3c/4a hair but most Eritreans (and most horners in general) have AT LEAST that hair type, and sometimes even 4b to 4c

@fruitsarelife7073 Год назад

@@thealisterr true!! I know not many with lose hair.

@thealisterr Год назад

@@fruitsarelife7073 exactly!! Like they be really trying to play us😂 We got nappy hair too

@daha3074 Год назад

@@thealisterr I agree. I'm around 3c/4a as well. Although common, it isn't the majority.

@thealisterr Год назад

@@daha3074 well I’m not sure where you’re getting your sources from, but that certainly isn’t true🤣 Speak for yourself bro, but if we keeping it real, the vast majority of us from the Horn tend to have tighter curls/nappier textured hair. It typically can range from 3c-4b, sometimes even 4c. At least for Habesha people (most Eritreans/Northern Ethiopians), I can speak for them. I’m not sure if you’re Somali or not, but it might be more diverse or it may slightly differ from person to person when it comes to Somali’s hair textures/curl patterns. Somalis may be more likely to have softer hair/looser curls. But from every Somali I’ve came across in my life, most of them definitely had 3c/4a (tightly-curled) hair. And to be honest, I think it’s just the typical northeast African hair type. I’ll even throw in Sudan because despite their extreme diversity when it comes to their phenotype (Sudanese people tend to come in all different shapes and sizes), most of them I’ve came across had 3c/4a hair too, believe it or not 😂

@PinchOfLuck 3 года назад

You are extremely beautiful, with a proud heritage, and people pick on your HAIR? Seriously? OMG

@jenniferdagnat8466 3 года назад

I also saw that ignorant comment, I was going to reply but I didn't want to give the troll any attention. There are a lot of habeshas with 4C hair, it's not uncommon, my mom is Eritrean and also has your hair type. Your hair is beautiful and healthy.

@TheHabby 3 года назад

Thank you Jennifer! I wanted to ignore it but man it made my blood boil lol!

@mdaaaa1211 3 года назад

@@TheHabby lol...Sorry, Hunny 🙏 , if it's any consolation, it's very thick 😝 I was just concerned about the amount of money you have to spend on hair products. 😂 In all seriousness, your point is very well taken, sometimes we all don't understand or think about the small comments we make and how they affect people. You are also very correct about the westernized beauty standard that exists in the globe and habesha community in specific. You are a gorgeous, proud, intelligent habesha girl with a great sense of humor....That is why I watch your videos. In my only possible defense, I think I was possessed by the devil that day, so I am going to play temporary insanity😁😘 Thanks for being a good sport....

@lf1496 2 года назад

As an Afro Latina watching this, this is so sad. I live in Rome and your hair is seen as cool as sexy. It's sad to know even AFRICANS hate themselves striving to be more wt. This actually makes me physically sick to hear. Self hatred and the shame that we have for OURSELVES is just disgusting

@fanusbrhanemeskel9637 2 года назад

Horn of Africa we don’t hate our self

@fruitsarelife7073 Год назад

@@fanusbrhanemeskel9637 yes we do. Especially the older generation often hate african hair or sometimes richer skin color. The love pale skin and lose hair.

@fanusbrhanemeskel9637 Год назад

@@fruitsarelife7073 maybe ur family

@fruitsarelife7073 Год назад

@@fanusbrhanemeskel9637 stop denying reality.

@youngerudit2524 Год назад

lol y'all funny. Why would you expect it to be any different for Africans when they went through the same shit your "Afro latin" people did? or actually could be deemed worse since they nonstop got invaded for like a almost 2 millenniums and then got colonized up until the 1960s...meaning some of your parents were alive

@flaviaakello 3 года назад

This is beautiful - as a black East African person I've been learning about featurism and how this effects mixed people, nice to have your point of view on the subject. I hope the natural hair movement has given everyone more confidence.

@fsltvi6604 Год назад

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@genie8840 3 года назад

Ameen, haven’t event watched the video and I already know this is tea! The lack of representation that is in the Horn of Africa is really sad esp in Ethiopia and Eritrea everyone thinks we are all lightskin w 3a-c hair

@thealisterr Год назад

Agreed so much. I’m Eritrean and literally it’s all misrepresentation, to put it lightly. The western media loves to generalize and depict Horners as “very light skinned with loose, luscious curls” when in FACT that’s a complete MYTH. Now of course we can be diverse in our overall physical characteristics on an individual basis in the Horn, but generally speaking, it’s just not true at all🤣 Most Horners tend to have tighter curled/coiled hair, at least between 3c to 4a, or most of the time it’s a combination of both 3c/4a, and sometimes it can even be 4b to 4c. And skin tone wise it also varies too but most of the time, we typically have a reddish, medium to dark brown or “ruddy” skin tone. And if you even go to Eritrea, Ethiopia, etc, you’ll see for yourself in person that how the western media depicts us is complete nonsense and that it’s based on narrative, in attempts to “whitewash” and depict us with “exotic facial features” even though we’ve ALWAYS looked this type of way.

@unknown..642 Год назад

@@thealisterr horn of Africa is somalia only

@Maqouraddict Год назад

@@thealisterr exactly… media only shows loose hair in east africa

@eritreaconstantino9083 2 месяца назад

Lack of representation?

@eritreaconstantino9083 2 месяца назад

@@thealisterr Western media doesn't show us at all. Maybe you are talking about Eritrean drama videos. Our music videos usually showcase natural hairstyles. I have never seen us represented anywhere in the West, except maybe famous Eritreans like Nipsey and Tiffany, etc. Where have you seen us represented in the Western media? I'd like to see it.

@brokeaf5616 3 года назад

In my opinion, back in the days a lot of girls with 4C hair did not know how to care for it due to the lack of hair products that specifically cater for 4b/C hair types. A lot of Girls usually opted for relaxers and flat irons which damaged the hair and stunted hair growth. Those who braided their hair rather than heat and chemical styles also struggled with length retention because protective styles without the right moisturizing hair products achieved little to nothing hair length. And not to mention 4C hair has a lot of shrinkage. So this created the perception that 4C hair doesn't grow and hence became an undesirable hair type. In Eritrea ( In the Tigrigna Ethnic group), the term "Korchach" is used to refer to Kinky hair and often times substituted for an insult against people who have that hair type. It is equivalent to when black girls with 4C hair are called Nappy headed as insult in America or other western countries. These days there is a lot of information on how to care for different types of black hair and so many products to choose from and we know that 4C hair can grow just as much as other hair types with the right hair care routine. It is pure ignorance for anyone to perpetuate the idea that 4C hair is inferior to other hair types.

@missfabidia 2 года назад

You have no idea how you are helping me to embrace my hair ❤ Thank you so much !

@somaliancientegyptian 3 года назад

In Somali people you will find someone with fair skin and dark skin. in my family we have different skin tones or hair textures.

@bbygirl8363 3 года назад

Ur not ethnic somali we are different eventho i dont mind but lets be honest ur blood is somethin else

@batzar1238 3 года назад

@@bbygirl8363 so if you have a different skin tone and hair texture your not somali?? What lol

@LanersL 3 года назад

I have like 3c hair and my brother has 3a or 3b hair and he looks light skin and I’m dark skin

@bbygirl8363 3 года назад

@@batzar1238 somali ethnic group and bantus/ people with oromo or somethin like that mix are different

@batzar1238 3 года назад

@@bbygirl8363 your wrong for that. he’s somali. Who are you to tell someone where they are from. Y’all can’t be picking and choosing where someone is from based on looks. Some of you guys are obsessed with having Eurocentric features and dont claim those that don’t have a broader nose or darker skin. Are you that conceited that you think people would make up where they are from and say somali. You’ve exposed yourself for being a featurist. Stop dividing your people and looking down on those that have different hair textures and nose and accept everyone looks different bruh.

@jessh3379 3 года назад

I'm so glad you spoke out about this common misconception. Plus you are gorgeous. You've gained a new subscriber!

@ertfgghhhh 2 года назад

I'm 48. Half African American and half Trini. I have been natural since 90s. I got a lot of flack from it. Even from my mother's generation that started the natural hair movement in the late 60s. I am from the 2nd natural wave. We will never be free until 4c is seen as beautiful and worn by us as women and by our men

@yjorman6639 3 года назад

Thank you for sharing your feelings on this subject. I totally understand. Many of us "internalize" the negativity we observe, hear, and sense, when it comes to racism from colonized communities and colorism within our own community. I am happy for you that you learned to appreciate your natural hair regardless of how others in your community feel about it. It takes some degree of internal strength to not allow others to define you. Also thankful you found support within the African American community. You are a wonderful role-model for other young ladies with 4C hair.

@TheHabby 3 года назад

Oh boy am I gonna get some flack for this but my gut said to share so here we go...

@cydnicelina 3 года назад

Glad somebody finally said it! Love this video sis

@jenniferdagnat8466 3 года назад

It needed to be said, East Africa is a very diverse region. There are many different ethnicities, we don't all have the same look.

@Jonesybabie 3 года назад

I loooove your hair and subscribed years ago specifically because you have beautiful 4C hair and represent it well. I learned to care for my own hair because of East African methods (ghee deep donditioning & braiding). I will say, I was honestly surprised to see a Habesha with 4C texture because that is not the images we often see of Eritrean/Ethiopian hair. Glad to see you giving a real view of such a dynamic culture. Worldwide... melanin is magic and so is our kinky/curly/coily hair. 🖤🤎🌍

@Apple-jf4tb 3 года назад

Texturism, featurism, colorism. Lets talk about it!

@terrasseberry5403 7 месяцев назад

Hey mama!! There's nothing wrong with your hair. I totally understand what you are talking about but don't forget ignorance is global. There's some minds that can never be changed. Just love you no matter what they say. I had been called darky and blacky in an African American family from the lightskinned family members. Just imagine that craziness growing up. I'm laughing all the way till I take my last breath. Be happy no matter what!!!❤

@imParisthoee 3 года назад

I think you are a beautiful woman with a gorgeous head of hair. Thank you for your perspective and expanding representation of the diversity of Africa’s people, whichever side of the continent, which ever place in the diaspora.

@annn6433 3 года назад

Thank you for this! I love you, your hair & your channel :)♡

@lisaj4441 2 года назад

Preach sis. It's a journey for all Black people to love our natural form - but we are slowly making our way there. It is beautiful to see if finally starting to happen.

@haniyyahn 3 года назад

I am so glad you made this video. I would love to see you do videos on traditional hair styles.

@hakimaalem 2 года назад

Nice video!! Im so tired of the hair discrimination even from my own family. Yes my hair is 4c and it is good hair period!

@mariesmalls8335 2 года назад

Thank you for your honesty and your courage. I'm African American but I get mistaken for habesha (I take it as a compliment). I did see that stereotype when I lived in habesha communities here in the US. The ladies with looser curls and lighter skin tones are seen to be more desired or amongst Habesha people and African Americans actually. You are right! And it is disheartening to see. I went through the same things you did amongst my own people. Girl you are beautiful. And you are speaking the truth for many of us around the world. Keep being bold in telling the truth.

@KnL9713 2 года назад

I've liked this conversation. You spoke with your heart. Texturism is a huge problem in all communities. I'm Caribbean and it's the same for us too.

@krazywu 3 года назад

lol im glad u made this, this is fire

@STP255 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for educating us!

@VIPCWORLD 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for addressing this issue about our divine natural hair. We are coming back full circle to loving ourselves and I embrace your courage for speaking out about this very sensitive topic.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@tadiosbeyene9086 3 года назад

Habesha community will get riled up in this video but some won't.

@TheHabby 3 года назад

haha I'm sure some will. But that's expected when you point out an issue to be addressed right.

@mahletberhanemeskel6754 2 года назад

Thank you for making this! I have 4a/4b/4c hair and no one in my family has this type of hair, everyone has 3a/3c in my family. I've always struggled with my hair and even been told I have bad hair in the most "kindest way" I have relaxed my hair, dyed it, Brazilian blowouts, keratin treatments just trying to tame it. I recently big chopped my hair and put it in braids until further notice. I also wear wigs to cover it. I even stopped going to hair salons because the negative comments about my hair being difficult is insane. 4c hair isn't ugly!!!

@GabriellaGabrielle Год назад

Oh wow 😮

@jhssmith2004 Год назад

great video and i loved your passion about the subject. i love my 4 c hair. i'm so proud of it. your channel has helped me along my journey and feelings about my hair. it is a thick bush of glorious naps. yeah, call me nappy head all day and i'll say thank you. when i look at it to me it's an expression of the universe reaching up to God. Blessings to everyone here.

@nuche100 3 года назад

Ok so new subby here. 1st of all your hair is absolutely gorgeous 😍 do not let anyone else tell you otherwise. I had no idea East African women were that diverse and I thank you for educating us on this matter. It's the same issues you have with the older generation we have on the other side of West Africa as well particularly Nigeria. I'm just glad the younger generations are finally embracing their beautiful natural hair. You do you beautiful 😍 😘 and keep spreading the love and message because there are younger ones looking up to you.

@TheHabby 3 года назад

Thank you Nkem!

@shannonbeazer1268 3 года назад

You're beautiful. Your skin looks like the sun shining through your spirit. And your hair looks amazing. I am sooo happy to see you’re hair. The media never really shows your type of hair. And on RU-vid the ladies with the looser curls kind of straight hair is more of what I see. So when I came across your page at 5:38 am I was so happy to see a woman with my hair type appreciates curlier pattern. Your hair is beautiful Sis. And the same hair narrative applies world wide for our hair type. But they’re liars our hair is beautiful like the strands of DNA that coils our hair coils.keep shinning.

@Susan_Brandy 3 года назад

Your hair is gorgeous 😍

@zahiraibrahim5010 2 года назад

Your hair as it is in natural state is EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL ♡

@malvaparker6618 3 года назад

Your hair is absolutely gorgeous. I love 4c hair. I'm 4b and I love my hair. Natural hair is awesome.

@slickrick2420 3 года назад

Thanks for speaking out. I'm Eritrean Habesha too and I've noticed some of the same problems, although to a much lesser degree since I'm a guy. Your type of hair is not at all that uncommon. I see more Habeshas with your hair than with loose curly hair. I'm sorry about the bias and hate you've been receiving, we as a community need to do better. Gladly this is something that's getting better with the new generation in the diaspora.

@eritreaconstantino9083 2 месяца назад

It's weird when people talk about it on social media, because I didn't know it was prevalent at all. Most Eritreans I know, like me, have hair like hers. Tight coils, maybe a little looser, but not "European". I never felt I had to live up to anyone else's hair standards. If someone made any comment, I don't remember. Maybe I have high self esteem or something.

@ZeroTheBot Месяц назад

@@eritreaconstantino9083ikr, it feels like they're making a problem out of nothing.

@Susan_Brandy 3 года назад

My friends, when I was at college & university, were Eritrean, Ethiopean & Somalian. They all had different variations of type 3 hair textures but some had 4b /4a hair textures. And they were all natural. That comment you got was really negative☹️. I’m glad you addressed this.

@aiai9571 3 года назад

It's Somali*

@bbygirl8363 3 года назад

Somali* and somalis kinkiest hair they can have is 4a-3c we might be darker than habesha but our hair is different kinda weird i wouldnt never understand our genes

@user-yt6uo6cc8y 2 года назад

@@bbygirl8363 lioooouollllilololil

@missydonald6381 2 года назад

@@aiai9571 Are you correcting her spelling? I’m pretty sure she spelled it rights

@aw350 2 года назад

@@missydonald6381 no it’s somali

@philemon2796 3 года назад

You are beautiful no matter what kind of hair you have you don’t have to fit into someone’s classification You are a perfect combination of smartness and beautify. So you are the new definition of beauty. Don’t worry just be your self and u will set the standard and other will wish to be like you . Mam just be yourself you were born to set standard not to fit in

@chafester4886 3 года назад

This video is much appreciated. Thank you so much for it. KEEP GOING! KEEP ENCOURAGING OTHERS. You are doing a great job. God bless you a hundredfold for being so bold as to talk about this subject. After all, GOD made us didn't He? There IS, I believe a reason why He made our hair type what it is and it is for His personal glory. The straight hair/curly non-kinky community who looks down at 4 type hair is one day in for a huge surprise. There is only ONE GOD!

@zanjal-jahiz669 2 года назад

more and more blacks are magnifying their frizzy hair and as you say there are going to be surprises in the next few years so much so that Eurocentrics will say that frizzy hair has Eurasian genes 🤣🤣😂. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i0TNu2HcE_0.html

@anisamohamud8246 3 года назад

This is true we have diversity in our region as well. But there lacks representation for all. Like you said we only see the curly loose-haired and lighter-skinned EA's, but we have dark-skinned kinky-haired Goddesses as well!!!!!

@chocolatediamonds5760 2 года назад

Black American here great video and beautiful hair 💯💯

@chameleon5632 2 года назад

I really appreciate this video I just came across it and yes I am a color girl in America with very tight nappy hair and by the way your 4C hair looks way better than mine thank you so much for this video I'm still struggling right now today to appreciate my type of hair and my sister's them always get praise because they have the pretty curly hair so they say.🌟💖

@ziwagwatidzo9520 3 года назад

You remind me of Doja cat. The speaking voice and mannerisms

@isaidwhatisaid7177 3 года назад

Ziwa Gwatidzo yes she also reminds me of Doja cat.

@mojjim2177 3 года назад

I was just about to type this

@eritreaconstantino9083 2 месяца назад

reminds me of how Doja Cat made fun of someone saying her bleach blond TWA looked like popcorn. I fell out laughing. Her rant was funny as heck.

@rowthunder 2 года назад

As a black American man I so wondered about eritreans and the culture especially hair textures and I appreciate you addressing it. I've been mistaken of being eritrean due to my look and hair texture and I sought out looking for subjects of culture with eritreans. More importantly I wanted to know why I may have been rejected recently by an eritrean woman, and 20 years ago. I now have a better understanding on probably why. You made my Christmas day.

@itssimplyivy 5 месяцев назад

😂😂

@Mrs_Canary 3 года назад

My 43 yr old black husband asked me what 4c was....i said "my" hair. He was confused about why ppl didnt like it. You r spot on with your opinion. When I big chopped ....whoa black women especially.....hated my nappy short afro. .

@catherinegileng5180 11 месяцев назад

I LOVE THIS VIDEO

@RASDB7 Год назад

Some how I came across this and it’s simple amazing. In my travels around Ethiopia and Africa combined with experiences here in America with the Habesha community here. Great observation and I agree. I was often spoken to in Amharic throughout Ethiopia and my broken Amharic lead to continuous questions of where are my grandparents from. I was amazed by all the complexions and hair types still am. I saw all African/black phenotypes in Ethiopia “west African short and stalky dark and tall etc. The celebration in Meskel square when all the tribes arrive is beyond words and photos. Peace/Selam✌🏾

@hadast3806 Год назад

So true. My husband is Eritrean and we live in Addis Ababa. I’m Ghanaian-American and have seen every single look that you could find across the African continent within Ethiopia. Ethiopians literally encompass every black look you can find across the world. Most people are only familiar with the “Semitic” Habesha phenotype. I’ve seen people I would have mistaken for Senegalese, Ghanaian, Arab, etc. on a daily basis. Even in my husbands family two sisters has almost straight hair, two others have 4a and 4b textures and varying complexions. They have every look you can find in Ethiopia.

@RASDB7 Год назад

@@hadast3806 Thank you so much for the response! Spot on, Blessings to your family and your husband.

@safuu202 3 года назад

Just now seeing this but YES!!! YES to ALL of THIS!!!! I can relate to non-HornEast Africans complimenting my hair once i grew it our way more than those within the community (i don't identify as "Habesha" tho just Eritrean or East African) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@Mrs_Canary 3 года назад

Your hair is gorgeous!

@cocoa_pacific 2 года назад

Your hair is beautiful! I have 4c hair and it has been a journey. I hope to have long healthy 4c hair like yours one day 😊

@lynnj85 3 года назад

Yes...Please educate us black Americans about Africa, "THE CONTINENT!" I want to see the variety of hair textures, pheno types, complexions, and cultural styles. That would be so awesome to broaden our perspectives! But, thank you for sharing this info with us, the Habby.😊🌍📲💻📝📡

@AmethystKaianna 3 года назад

I'm Rwandese but I've seen the same thing within my own community. There are women in my family who don't want to be natural because their hair isn't "curly" whereas those in my family with looser curls are always phrased. Trying to change that little by little

@TheHabby 3 года назад

Yes!! Exactly the case on my end!!

@MichouThe 3 года назад

Uhm U I am Rwandan myself, but we all have 4c hair tho, so Im kinda susprised when you mentioned Rwandese people with looser curls cuz the ones I know are mixed people. I know sadly that natural hair is not celebrated, however it is starting to become the norm to wear your hair natural ;)

@Panafrocanam2 2 года назад

@@MichouThe lmao ikr people r funny

@pandoraheartsvd 3 года назад

Nice video!😊

@sandraporter793 6 месяцев назад

Your hair really is beautiful. Keep going sista

@Elileojor Год назад

Your hair is so beautiful. I have 4c hair (Nigerian) and I understand ♥️

@cynthiascott8639 2 года назад

Your hair is beautiful and healthy and from God. I have 4c hair and don't care what people think. I grew up with people like that, good hair bad hair. It's all good. Thank you for bringing this forth.

@sodamncutestud2 2 года назад

These European standards of beauty has messed up everyone’s heads. 4c hair is beautiful and versatile. If you don’t like messing with it put it in a protective style and go. In the world there will always be discrimination, it’s human nature to want to be around familiar people. Stripes w stripes/spots w spots. So when someone doesn’t fit into that box they alienate and hate.

@revelofficial8542 21 день назад

You're right. To my knowledge, it's an issue in almost every Black community as well. It's a result of many many years euro-colonial bs. Black American women in particular are so supportive and have done a lot of unlearning and working to embrace our natural texture. I wore my 4b/c hair in a twist out for my grad lunch years ago and I was very proud and confident but my West African grandma was not having it. After hours of looking at me dissatisfied/sideways, finally said later when we cut our cake "Why didn't you fix your hair?"

@mikizab1 Год назад

Love, love speak the truth!

@DefineMorena 3 года назад

Yeah, I also saw that ignorant comment... It's quite sad honestly.

@karenwalker652 3 года назад

Thank you!

@s.cookie1136 3 года назад

damn... big hug from Germany for everything you said. I hope there are more people like u who think that way... preferably near Germany lol

@sonyabarnes1265 Год назад

Your hair is beautiful!!!!! 💛💛💛

@TheHabby 3 года назад

Wow. I'm amazed at how much conversation you've been having on this topic. I knew it affected me but I didn't realize it affected so many others. It was scary to post but I'm glad it's up. You've encouraged me to cover more topics like this! Thank you for your continued support on this channel! RU-vid has not been fair to all RU-vidrs lately in that viewership on this channel has gone down significantly in the past two years. In turn, keeping up with these videos has been more difficult. I want to continue to create more research based opinion pieces, especially on topics such as this one that don't often get attention. There are additional ways to support this channel outside of RU-vid. One of them is by becoming a patron. If you're able to, I would greatly appreciate your support on there: www.patreon.com/Thehabby/.

@shwanzu9766 2 года назад

My sister concretely with this new generation of black people who are coming. The Bantu, Afro-descendant as well as the Hamites / Couchites should all ally themselves, right? For centuries the black man does not know his value, but today he has found it again and we realize that the frizzy hair of type 4C which is the most frizzy is in the end the best achieved, because as Gillette Leuwat said (rip) frizzy hair is the only one that can be rolled up with curlers, that can be smoothed with a straightening iron and can be frizzy with the fingers. Let's highlight our melanin and our frizzy hair and we would be the happiest in the world.

@mhjgh3834 Год назад

Yeah RU-vid algorithm is very unpredictable and really unfair especially towards us black people all over the world. Great job by the way! 😊👍🏼💁🏽‍♀️ I'm Eritrean living in Europe, and you are correct. It is very common amongst habesha - Eritrean and Ethiopian, unfortunately that kind of ignorance to look down on darker skin and 4 c types hair and so on. I've seen people have that way towards there own family members and it's heartbreaking to hear and se, and I've had to intervene many times, so to defend, support and strengthen younger girls and teens confident. I'm myself lights skinned and type 3 hair i think and don't know for shore i don't even care what it's called, i just take good care of it, it's healthy and it's long and i love it! And one more thing, a lot of habesha women all over the world, they do lie about there 'natural hair' when in fact they use relaxer and lie about it and say and acts like the haven't.🤦🏽‍♀️😆😄🤣

@rahimnasr9349 3 года назад

People are created different , doesn't matter what anyone says 💯..I've seen full somali's with type 4 afro hair 🙂 and it's beautiful

@laurieb.9555 Год назад

I'm African American partly mixed race with 3c 3b hair...I look to Ethiopia for my haircare bc my hair is similar to Ethiopian hair I love you guys

@nafkiamissac777 2 года назад

Very interesting video my sister, my mom told me that before 1980s in Ethiopia Afro hair and curly hair was the best preferable for the traditional hair styling. The other soft hairs were not desirable to do the braids, afro styles and tribal hair decorations. Recently the culture and the fashion has been changing through time. The hair type issues came in to problem after the missionaries and the exposure to the western cultures and media. What I like the most is you mentioned that we all are very divers in hair types. East Africa and in general Africa is very divers even in skin color tones. You can do a video on the colors too 'baricho', 'shanko' name callings when we have darker skins. Specially the northern parts of Ethiopia 'Semitic people' considering them selves light skinned than Cushitic people makes me laugh like crazy.

@zanjal-jahiz669 2 года назад

frizzy hair is the most successful in the world, it is the only one that can be straightened, wavy/curly, braided, crimped with your fingers and other types of hairstyles such as the Afro cut. it is the most resistant hair and provides the best protection from the sun. the new generation of blacks are magnifying their frizzy hair, it may be that in 5-10 years cr will be the most adored hair type in the world.

@lolo-hp3bt 3 года назад

Also other East Africans 🇰🇪🇧🇮🇹🇿🇺🇬 have 4c hair too (some)

@hb1932 3 года назад

Yes!!

@x-isaac3385 3 года назад

@@hb1932 some of them they don’t got hair

@msstacey777 3 года назад

I love your hair!!!!!!!

@TheHabby 3 года назад

Thank you Ms Stacey! Thank you for your continued support!

@michaelapowell7988 3 года назад

I think people just expect light-skinned females and/males to have curly, easily detangled hair. I'm just 16, but it triggers me sometimes when my peers assume I did something wrong to my hair that made it this kinky. And this is in Jamaica, where 92% of us are black. It's annoying.

@Li-rw1ih Год назад

Omg don’t get me started with Jamaicans and colourism/featurism/texturism 💀

@aquietone3809 2 года назад

I have type 4 hair , I have rocked every hair style except dreads,have been complimented for it’s beauty and color. I have experienced the same creepy looks as though it’s the worst hair, but then they try mimic your hair and color. 4c is the most versatile hair to me , because there no limits to what I can do with my hair..just added my viewpoint, I love all textures of hair ✌🏾

@sandraporter793 Год назад

Good content thx ☺️

@hassnaabdella 3 года назад

I am Habasha and love your hair

@TheHabby 3 года назад

Thank you Hassna! Thank you for your continued support:)

@LionessofYah1 2 года назад

I'm an African American with 4a/3c hair who gets mistaken as being Habesha all the time I take it as a compliment because Habesha people a very beautiful 🥰. I took a DNA test and found out that I have ancestors from Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco, Algeria as well as other North African and African countries. You and your hair are beautiful. I have lived in communities with Ethiopians, Eritrean's and Somali's so I seen a wide variety of skin tones and Hair textures and all are equally beautiful. Africa is the most diverse continent in the world! I have had the privilege to live around, work with and go to school with a variety of people from different backgrounds. I really enjoyed your video thank you for having the courage to share it 🥰

@yajnavod5171 3 года назад

At first I wanted to dislike but as I continue to watch the video I am happy that you explain that East Africa is not under one umbrella when it comes to hair.Thanks for sharing this video.

@josryder7841 3 года назад

The ENTIRE continent of Africa is the ULTIMATE representation of how DIVERSE we as a people are....and EVEN when you unpack that to a specific cultural African community....ITS STILL THE SAME! I pray that one day we (the collective African/Black) can unite despite our aesthetic differences. We are so beautiful. P.S you are absolutely GORGEOUS😍 and thats what drew me to your channel. I’m so sorry that you experiencing IGNORANCE

@TheHabby 3 года назад

Thank you Jos! Well put!

@NaturallyHigh 3 года назад

Woah sis! Great concept for the video. What's going on with your views? My channel is suffering too and I'm gutted to see that your content isn't being seen either. I'm really sorry. I'm commenting before watching because one of my good friends is from Oman and her hair is 4a. That in itself is a huge deal because she has relaxed hair and lives in Europe so people think she's Indian/Arab. Okay - going to watch now. Edit - she's the only person in her family with this hair type and people in general do not expect Omanis to have her hair texture. When they do, it's associated with poverty etc. Her mum is adamant she should keep it relaxed.

@Jonesybabie 3 года назад

It's unfortunate the YT algorithms no longer push deeply melanated or type 4 hair textures as much. I remember when you could type "natural hair" in the search and get all different varieties of hair texture. Now it's the racially ambiguous (and pale folks) who show up first in natural hair. I'm specifically checking for you now sis. #newsub 🖤🥰

@NaturallyHigh 3 года назад

@@Jonesybabie yeah - it is, indeed a shame. Are we sure that that's what the algorithm is doing though? Aren't everyone's search results different? I believe the aim of the algorithm is to optimise ad views. It sucks that so many 4C natural hair channels are suffering. Starpuppy seems to still be doing REALLy well though and NappyHeadedJojoba's thriving, though she has chosen to divest from the NHC.

@NaturallyHigh 3 года назад

@@Jonesybabie Thanks for the support!

@TheHabby 3 года назад

Hey:) I thought I was the only one!!! My views in the past two years have decreased significantly. I don't think subscribers are getting notifications because RU-vid changed some things again! I'm seeing you're experiencing the same thing! You should have way more views with the 68K subscribers you have, way more!! I'm going to make sure to support you in case it helps! Maybe we should do a collab video on this topic. Bring awareness to it!!

@NaturallyHigh 3 года назад

@@TheHabby so glad we connected, Sis!

@fruitsarelife148 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this.❤️❤️❤️ I noticed they want acknowledge straight her 🤯🤯before 4c hair which a thousand times more common 🌍🌍🌍we are africans lol.

@tsnatendale 3 года назад

Habby, u are right! God has never created anyone so that he would look ugly!. For some say, "when we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change"

@tatyanaharvey2847 3 года назад

All hair textures are beautiful when it's healthy.

@TheQueenIsWithin 3 года назад

My hair is 3c/4a and an Ethiopian man actually mistook me for an Ethiopian like himself and it was mostly because of my hair and his hair was straight. So far the few I've seen and met in person are definitely the 4c hair types so I'll have to admit I myself was misled.

@thealisterr 2 года назад

Yeah bro most of us Horners got 3c/4a hair. I’m Eri and also with that hair.

@user-vw8oi9ls3b 3 года назад

You look so fine no matter what kind of hair you have.

@RT-px8xs 3 года назад

Eritrean and Ethiopians have all kinds from type 1 being the rarest but there are some who have them type 2 and 3 would be more ideal but YoType 4 also being common Atleast for the women....I don’t think this was weird but nice video lol

@thealisterr Год назад

Lol I’ve never met even one Eritrean/Ethiopian person who had type 1 or 2 hair. Idk where you getting that from. Most have had either curly or kinky hair.

@alrightuwin1398 3 года назад

your hair is so gorgeous mashallah

@beproud5447 3 года назад

Somali girl here with 3c 4a hair, I love it and rock it🤭🤭 my siblings range from 2b- 3c 4a. all tho I love my hair, I can't say the same for single strand knots, they make me crazy😆😆

@Somali1971 3 года назад

You taught me something new I didn't know that, types of hairs.

@dahabizizy 3 года назад

Most somalis have tht hair and. Iam one of them my family 3of them have it tooo

@asm7610 3 года назад

You are gorgeous and have some beautiful hair just as it is. Whoever the opinionated and closed minded people are around you that don't appreciate and cherish you just the way you are, you should distance yourself from or remove from your life completely. They don't deserve you, your time, or energy.

@angelicapugh483 2 года назад

Whoa! Beautiful Sistar!

@gracajose6861 3 года назад

Speak your truth sis!

@Boricuagoddess0831 3 года назад

I'm 3c4a hair type but I have family members with 4b4c our hair types are is all very different you are beautiful sis

@thealisterr 2 года назад

Is there really a big difference between 3c/4a (aka tight-curly hair) and 4b/4c hair (kinky hair)? Both are relatively woolly, have very tight curls and are coily. It’s just that the 3c/4a hair type appears to look very coarse and frizzy, as opposed to the 4b/4c hair type which is very kinky.

@Boricuagoddess0831 2 года назад

@@thealisterr no it isn’t

@thealisterr 2 года назад

@Vengeful Goddess. Lmao you a whole 6 months late, congratulations. But I just said the hair types were similar, not the exact same. I got 3c/4a hair (I’m from Eritrea) and it’s still wooly with tight curls but it’s still relatively soft and very frizzy.

@ForeverELLE54 9 месяцев назад

As an Eritrean I heard it all when it comes to hair. There's this old belief that a woman's beauty is within her hair and that could be the furthest thing from the truth. I do understand it comes from a lack of knowledge within the (many) communities ! My daughter has a different curl pattern (4c) from mine & I've been very intentional on letting her know how unique and beautiful her hair is in it's natural state . The stigma centered around 4a,b,c hair not being "beautiful" or "too much" is one that must be laid to rest. Thank you for this video as it is necessary and appreciated .

@selamawitberhanu2364 Год назад

Yes, you are right there 3 types of hair in Ethiopia, but most of them has black curly hair.

@sammygirl954 Год назад

My hair is 4b and looks just like yours. I only flat press it to make it straight. When I wash it my curls come back and looks like yours 😊

@mochacholat 3 года назад

I n the Caribbean we experienced texturism and colourism but by late 1990 this was no longer an issue. I remembered when I started wearing my short 3c hair everyone was like, its really nice what do you use .

@mochacholat 3 года назад

@Julia Lia not in st. Lucia. Growing up I felt it. I was called ugly because I am dark and I have "hard" hair.

@michiga5220 Год назад

No way, cake soap is still a thing

@3x4l70 2 года назад

i feel you let me not lie i wanted 3b hair as a kid soooo bad im somali with 4a 4b hair and all my brothers and sisters have 3b and 3c hair i used to do anything to make my hair looser but now i embrace my hair im only 15 and have alot to learn

@daha3074 Год назад

Well said.

@ralphmontes6423 3 года назад

Of course they would but it's nothing new but it's because hair type and facial nothing to do with place it's it depends person's genetics but like you said features vary the people in west Africa for example do have curly wavy hair on rare occasions

@MiwaTamu 3 месяца назад

Wow, your video appeared to me today for the first time in 2024 and I'm amazed, thank you so much for making this video. I'm a Kenyan (East African too for those who don't know) and I must confess that I had no idea that Ethiopians could have 4C hair like me 😍 and so beautiful too. But the reason I am writing is to share an experience I had. I am married to a 100% Kenyan man, no mixed blood of any kind that anyone is aware of. When we met he was bald (shaved) and I never actually saw his hair. I have super duper tight 4C hair (so tight that unfortunately I was taught that my hair was "hard" and difficult, just like my grandma's) I thank God for RU-vid because in 2007 I started to learn how to take care of my natural hair and have never looked back. I have super thick hair, it's awesome. Naturally, when we got married, I assumed that our children would come out with 4Chair, we have 8 children ☺️ But when that first baby came out with 4B hair I was like 👀, but I didn't think much more about it, just assumed genetics are interesting. Babies #2 and #3 were born with silky hair flat on their heads, but by 1 or 2 years old it would curl up to 4C hair.... apparently this is typical Until baby #4's hair remained 3C/4A by 2years🤔, so then I finally mentioned it to my hubby who kinda nonchalantly told me "what's so odd about that? My hair is that way" 🤣🤣 I'm like "what do you mean? But you are Kenyan, all Kenyans have 4C hair unless they have some type of mix in their ancestry (this revealing my ignorance), and you don't (neither his parents nor siblings have this type of hair, though I later found out that one sister has some looser curls at the back of her head🤭) When this baby was around 3 years old, African women started to ask me if I had ever cut his baby hair off. I said no, I never do that. So they tell me to cut off his hair so that his true hair would show 🙄. Well, I cut it (not because they told me to) and alas, it just grew out 3C/4A again. So now I finally asked my husband to grow out his hair a little so that I could see it. And shock on me he has 3B hair!! 🙆🏾‍♀️🙆🏾‍♀️ I had no idea that Kenyans could have such hair. Anyway, fast forward to baby #6 who pops out with 3A/3B hair and I'm like, "wait, whaaaat?" 🤣🤣 NOW people started to ask all sorts of questions...(because hubby always keeps his head bald) The craziest was when we went to get our children passports, the authorities refused to grant us a passport for baby #6 BECAUSE of her hair!! They said she had "Somali/Ethiopian" hair yet neither of us was Somali or Ethiopian 😳😳😲 What madness is this? We had to go to great lengths for weeks on end to prove that she was our daughter before they could grant her a passport (I have home births, so no hospital records) Hair discrimination is real and quite bizarre.