this what caused many black people hair to fall out years later smh. afro era was the best. even now I'm happy its natural with locs and freeform afros. thank god.
I heard it will be making a comeback! In all honesty it was not a bad hairstyle at all, I was not around during it's first run, but I am glad to be around for it this time.
Get ready for the smell...there's a distinct Jheri Curl smell...not bad ...just distinct... that comes with heavy presence of people with Jheri Curls. So much so....that just seeing the pictures makes me able to smell 1986 again.
I was a teenager in the 80s and along with my tight Sergio Valente jeans, I rocked the TCB curl. Thinking a about it now, I can still smell the activator. I was real cute, too,
@@BlackExcellenceMedia Shame on you for not crediting or mentioning Classy Curl, especially when during this video the clips of the commercial was made famous back in the 1980's. Sure, Curly Kit was the first among home curl kits back then, but it's totally worthless if you're not mentioning Classy Curl-the official old-school sponsor of Soul Train back from 1980 to 1987.
Yes I had the Jeri curl in 1984 when I was 10. I got it the summer before I began fourth grade. That was the downfall of my hair. In 1985 it had killed it. I went to a press and curl for a few months until I got my first Dark and Lovely perm. It was over then. By 1996 I began to see people with dread locks and desired them. I was in Tennessee. I move to Seattle that same year and got all the perm cut off. I went natural for the first the with a short curly fade. I wasn't don't in 1997 I was in a perm again due to pressure of my boyfriend at the time. The end of that year I chopped off my hair again and was natural. In 1998 I put in a box Duke process to curl my hair. Then I entered another relationship with a guy who wanted me to get a wave nouveau. I rocked that and Jeri curl until December 1999. I was done and back in the natural fade. So in 2002 that fall was my last relaxer. I was 28 when I gave of the straighting chemicals. Since then I wear afro, locks, or twists. God is good I have my hair on the sides and edges. I stopped chemicals just in time. My advice to Black women is stop perming the hair by the age of 25. I had one grandmother who was 107 when she died. She never used perms or Jeri curls . Her hair was long until her 80's 90's. The other grandmother permed her hair often then got a press every week, because that was a sign of affluence to get your hair done weekly. But she had a huge bald spot in the top of her head that was not coming back. So her stylist should have warned her of what she was doing instead of taking her money.
Listen I got my first curl back in 85 by 1987 I was wearing press and curl by 1988 that when mom put an Relaxer on me By 1989 I went back to an jheri curl wore it until that late 93 and switch back to a Relaxer and Early 94 I switch back to a jheri late 95 I went back to an Relaxer I started wearing braids .
Being I'm biracial, if I put a lot of gel in my hair it looks like a Jheri curl. Being the hard core Punk fanatic that was in the 1980s and 1990s I would try to transform my high yellow afro into liberty spikes by using a whole bottle of hair gel which would go back to curls the minute I stepped out of the house. Thank you Poly Styrene for being my Punk look alike.
Stoked to hear about you as a punk back in the day! Cool to imagine, and gin to imagine your wild hair! 😆 I was into the punk scene too, though probably started a little later.
The grown black man knows you can't clown him because he doesn't follow trends, he has his own style and moves to his own beat with confidence and women love confidence in a man!
Does anybody else remember a high top fade being called a "box"? I lived in southern Florida in 1988 or '89 and was in high school, and every black kid in the school had a really tall box (like Kid n' Play). That's what they called it. I also remember that at the end of the jheri curl era, the antagonist in the movie would usually have one and be depicted as vain or even kind of dumb. The Good Guy would have natural hair.
@@pamulahwilliams1744 I loved it! It looked so cool. My white boy hair wouldn't do it, so I was just envious. I remember the salt n' Peppa line "I'm checking out the brother with the high top fade" and so even back then I wondered if high top fade and box were the same thing.
Decided to do research with perms because of my hair issues. This was good info. We're always the main targets we/me/us Melonated ones when it comes to pursuing us for money...Somebody's always in a master class, thinking. Take notes😢😢😮.
My mother sure had a Jheri Curl back in 1984 when I was just the innocent age of 5 years old. And best believe me when I say so, she, had big, fluffy curls back then-and yes, she did had a Pro-Line Curly kit at that era, too. Did I run my fingers through my mom's hair back then? You bet I did. Now ,my mother is 63 (she will be 64 next month), and her hair is all natural, no need for chemicals. As for myself, I could never get a Jheri Curl, not even if it was still the 1980's if I went back in time. And the reason is for the excruciating chemicals,, the foul stench while processing, having to wear rollers, and most importantly, also having to wear a plastic cap every day, and every night. So, it would be a real pain if the chemically processed Jheri curls would make a comeback, but then again, it stll looks good on some people.
How is a hairstyle a form of self hate? Hair is versatile especially black hair. Why not celebrate the versatility. I love how black hair can be tightled coiled and then straightened to create a whole new look. Stop identifying a change in hair texture with self hate. It's ridiculous.
Im just finding out a white man named Jheri...invented the Jheri curl. ...that blows my mind. For no reason, i just googled who invented the Jheri Curl , thinking how that black man or women must have gotten rich off of it....and then I see Jheri Reddings face 😂😂😂😂 just wasn't expecting that
That's where that answer is wrong. It was actually invented by a Black man by the name of Willie Morrow from San Diego, the inventor of the California Curl.
@@mm...food. I'm not saying that the Jheri curl is exclusively for Blacks. Yes, it's true that anyone can rock it. In fact, there are some White Jews that have the same texture as us Blacks and they have the ability to process their hair just like us. And yes, I also believe that some but not all Whites can get a Jheri curl as well. It depends on how the hair was naturally made when the person was born .
my mother sd i was the only baby born on the block in 1980 that came out with a natural jheri curl 😂 chile and my hair still super curl i was always jealous of loc styles and fros my hair said nawl lol
By the late 80's, the Jheri Curl became played out in NYC. Anyway, that hairstyle wasn't even making much noise in NYC during the 80's which is something others are still failing to realize.
Ever wondered what brand name of jheri curls you folks used back in the days? Sometimes, back then it was hard to tell the difference because most Black people who wore the style and used the products were quite the same, if you can catch my drift.😁
If this guy Jheri Redding invented the Jheri curl in the 80s, how is it that the s-curl was invented in the 70s. Also why would some European invent something for the American Indians. Something just doesn't sound right.
Really this Black Guy Name Willie Marrow from San Diego invented the jheri curl. But it was call the California Curl. He pass away earlier this year. Need to Read up on him
definitely depends lololl its a spot in St Louis called the Drop Shop that still do em 😂 im sure anyone from St Louis who reading this know im not lying lol its the last and only place that still do it for the OGs who wont let go, they do all the old school styles , finger waves and all 😂
