When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” The comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl’s head.
Director Jeff Stilsons camera followed Rock, and the result is the documentary Good Hair. Peep the trailer above and get more info at the official website.
My hair is really long, about 4 inches above my butt and I’m BLACK!! Not immediately mixed. We are all mixed with something. But my hair is real and I don’t have a relaxer…I never knew men really shouldn’t touch womens hair that have a weave…No wonder the guys I date always touch it curiously, but hesitantly…then when they find out it’s real, they are more comfortable and like to play in it. LOL.
I really like Chris Tucker. I dont’ think Chris would like to ashame black woman he just want to show the reality. Why we should ashame of what we do? Maybe because we don’t proud of being no natural…
Oh goodness, here we go w/the permed vs. natural hair arguments.
This movie seems like it will be very informing and I hope to see it soon. & Wow..I didn’t know some women didn’t let men touch their hair, that explains some of the hesistation on mines. ROTFL.
SISTAS WE NEED TO STOP LYING TO OURSELF. I VE BEEN NATURAL FOR ABOUT A YEAR NOW AND IHAVE TO SAY IT WAS THE BEST DECISION IVE EVER MADE IN MY LIFE. I WAS WEARING WEAVES FOR YEARS AND I NEVER THOUGHT MY HAIR COULD ACTUALLY GROW. I WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE. THEY ARE SO MANY WAYS TO WEAR YOUR HAIR STRAIGHT WITHOUT HAVING A RELAXER! I MEAN ITS 2009 SISTAS WHE NEED TO START LOVING OURSELFS GOT DAMNIT !!!!
Just a few facts;
As you ladies age the abuse from the relaxers really becomes evident.
Relaxers are a base…not an acid…but still very caustic.
We know a lot Black men like long hair and relaxed length does not come anywhere close to loc-ked length or loose natural hair .
Black people in general spend a greater percentage of their income on hair care/styling than any other ethnic group.
I can’t wait to see it. Something informative and funny.
GUESS THAT’S ANOTHER REASON FOR BLACK MEN DATING/MARRYNG OUTSIDE OF THEIR RACE, THEY LIKE LONG HAIR,LMAO. GUESS THEY MUST HATE THEIR MOTHERS,SISTERS,COUSINS,NIECES,AUNTS,GRANDMOTHER,FRIENDS AND BLACK WOMEN IN GENERAL. ANYWAY, I AGREE WITH SO MANY OF U, I HAVE SEEN SO MANY WOMEN BALD AROUND THE EDGES FROM WEARING WEAVE. THE THING IS THAT THEY CONTINUE TO WEAR IT ANYWAY. I HAVE SEEN JUST AS MANY LATINOS BALD FROM PULLING THEIR HAIR BACK IN THOSE TIGHT AZZ PONYTAILS OR BUNS. IT STILL AMAZES ME TO SEE BLACK/LATINO FEMALES HAIR BALDING AWAY AND THEY STILL DO THE SAME THING TO IT. LUV URSELF BLACK WOMEN, WE ARE BEAUTIFUL AND MUCH DESIRED, ESPECIALLY IN PARIS,LOL.
I am so-o-o happy that Chris Rock was inspired enough to film a documentary about the good hair vs. bad hair trend in Black America. What’s crazy is that is his wife still rocks a weave faithfully (lol). Whatever you choose to do with your hair, be it permed or natural, do it for you and not for what society wants you to believe is acceptable.
God Bless.
I think I am good on seeing this. I hear enough about this topic as it is What is next…good skin…good feet…good breath…good WEAVE??? Chris rock is funny though so if I did see it it would be because of him. Paul Mooney is fuuny too! Lay-A-Way wigs HAS to be the most “country” thing I have ever heard! Weave (although some need it) are the worse things ever invented. A good one looks decent a bad one looks HORRIBLE. If you insist on wearing them PLEASE make sure it is the same texture as you OWN hair..jeez I am tired of seeing these 2 and 3 texture hair styles ha-ha. Another thing: PLEASE quit showing up with 2 inch hair one day and 14i nches the next…TOO drastic. If you chose not to wear weave or a perm at least put a comb, heat and shampoo (tired of running into these musty-headed girls) to that head (Solange—haha) no need in looking like your head hasnt EVER met a brush! That’s TOO natural!
Nappy hair is not hard to comb if you learn how to comb it properly. I used to think the same thing but after trying different products and watching you tube videos from natural sisters and their styling methods I would never put a perm in my hair but I don’t knock some one that does. I have managed to save a lot of money going natural and go swimming almost 4 times a week with no worries. If your reason behind getting a perm is because it is easier to manage then cool. Just don’t make dumb ass comments to me about my natural hair. It’s just funny to me that I get hit on by more white dudes and brothers since I started rockin my fro.
LOVE IT! I can’t wait to see it. This issue has been kept behind closed doors for TOO LONG! I’m hoping to see changes in the way women of color deal with their hair and insecurities, myself included, after seeing this.
I’m also excited to see people of color jumping on the “Mockumentary” train, ie: Borat & Bruno. It’s the best way to reach people, comedy with a purpose.
wow some of these comments are very disheartening. I am a LIGHTSKIN woman with NATURAL hair and yes it is KINKY not nappy, nappy is such a negative term can we please stop using that word? and secondly there is nothing unmanageable about it you folks just don’t know how to take care of it simply because you are used to taking care of a texture that’s not even your own. I mean seriously, the only reason why alot of black women don’t have long hair is because they keep slapping weaves and lacefronts on. how do you expect he sh*t to grow if you aren’t taking good care of it? All my sisters and mom including I ALL have natural hair and its LONG ….it grows just as fast as anyone else’s. So what’s the problem? Do your research and it will grow to the lengths you want it to. And my boyfriend can run his hands through my hair anyday !
Oh my,… have got to see it, I know this will be interesting!!!
LMFAOOO I GOTTA SEE THIS
Wanna see this. It is sad. I am 16 years old and is saving to buy Virgin Indian Remi Hair that cost $318, terrible? It is what it is..
I wish people would realize that natural hair is more than just a fro.
There are plenty of curls, too.
I agree #153, any other race of women (or men) can alter their appearance without being questioned by darkening their skins with tanning beds, getting breast/butt implants, lip fillers, extensions/hair plugs, losing weight etc. You know why they get away with this? Because only in the black community do we have so many people, even strangers, who take such a invasive, judgemental interest in what every other black person is doing or wearing in the spirit of the old crabs-in-a-barrel theory. I have never heard white girls saying to each other in public “oh are those your real boobs/lips? They look so real!” but strangers will come up to me and ask if I am wearing my real hair because we are both black people and its “okay”. We live in a free-choice society, I choose to relax my hair for the same reasons that white women choose to get injected/lose weight/change hair color–because we can. The natural nazis can say whatever they want, life is too short and people shouldn’t have to change for them. Just another movie attacking black women, don’t think we forgot about your anti-black women comments Chris; besides, i’ve already had my fill of attack movies for the month after watching “A Diary of a Tired Black Man” or whatever its called.
ummm did you copyright the article?? The Sundance.org has the beginning as yours and I would believe the Sundance one. You are my fav. blog but I thought you are original?
“I think non blacks do laugh at blacks. My Korean friend’s family own a black hair shop you should hear the things they say about black women in their language. They don’t even like blacks they just want your money and you give it to them, because you want to look like them. LOL!!!!!!”
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Who the hell wants to look like a Korean? You can’t be serious. I’m embarrassed for you. Why are you even friends with these people? Please take your ignorance elsewhere.
On a postitive note,I have noticed that a lot of black women are going natural lately.
“Just the other day, I saw the white woman from the Real Housewives talking about buying a wig b/c her hair was falling out.”
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Britney,Paris and Fergie are practically bald.
“White ppl have more sense not to take their 7 yr old to the tanning salon for health reasons but the same cannot be said for black parents.’
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FYI, there are just as many if not more black women who don’t perm their daughters hair. I was one of them. I’m not going to speak on white women mainly because I really don’t have white friends since high school, so what they do is of no concern to me. Didn’t have a perm till I was 18 yrs. My mother is natural and so was my grandmother. Matter of fact, I don’t do my nails although they are very long and strong. A black woman refused to put tips on my nails. She said I would regret it. I don’t wear make-up either. Something else my mother tried to discourage. Anyway, back to the hair. I go back and forth. I wear braids, natural or whatever I feel like depending on the occasion. Hair IMO is like an accessory. I have fun with it. It isn’t that serious.
“Dont get me wrong, If a black woman wants to relax her hair then thats cool, as long as she’s doing it for the right reasons..(styling, managability, cuz she likes striaght styles). But nothing screams SELF-HATE more than a black woman with damaged broken off relaxed hair (esp. when the hairline is missing, yuck) or a poorly done terrible looking weave.”
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I really think you are making it a bigger deal that it is. What does self-hate have to do with a bad hairstyle? Can we just call it what it is? It isn’t that deep.
after many years of “relaxing” my hair, i finally decided to wear my hair natural, and proud. I cannot wait to watch this movie, hopefully i will start seeing more black women wearing their hair natural!
I am a proud black natural hair wearing sista for more than 20 years now and I give the credit to my direct influence: my mother who was ahead of her time by wearing African headdreses and who always emphasized the beauty of our African culture while she raised me and my siblings in an all white town. But I emphathize with my sistas still in bondage with the perm hair. The majority of us sistas have gone through the hair slavery period by perming our natural roots and I was a victim of that and suffered the consequences. I bugged my mother to perm my hair when I was young girl because the white girls at my school had the straight flip look and since I wouldn’t leave her alone about it, she gave in warning me about the consequences. The result was damage so bad to the back of my head, it was bald for several years. I learned an extremely valuable lesson that day – love your natural self. However, it took several years before I finally went complelely natural with locs, then with my own natural afro. Ironically, as a woman trying to be attractive to the other sex, I received most of my compliments and dates when I was natural and ladies, the men loved running their fingers through my locs and my afro because it’s real and natural not fake! I say to all, keep it real! Don’t confuse natural by depriving yourself of your beautiful assets. You can wear natural makeup and dress sexy and still be naturally beautiful. Try it! You will instantly see the results and attract the kind of man you are supposed to be with.