Natural Born Sistah
An audio diary that documents black women's natural hair journeys. We answer the question: what’s it like to embrace your naturally textured hair? Here, you’ll find the courage to be you and the guidance you need in this journey of rediscovering yourself. In each episode, you’ll hear Lisa E, have unfiltered and informative discussions with different women who tell their personal true stories about how they are rocking their natural hair with confidence despite discrimination and bias. We overcome hair discrimination by creating a movement. We break down our insecurities and our internalized feelings of inferiority by taking a stand together and wearing our natural hair together. You’ll learn about the many different pains and pleasures of living with big black hair as well as how to care for it, what to do before your big chop, and how to deal with the judgmental people you will naturally encounter. Confidence is our Victory! And, if you would like to share your story through your natural hair journey on the Natural Born Sistah Podcast, email Lisa E. at naturalbornsistah@gmail.com. The process is easy.
Natural Born Sistah
“Jason’s Lyric” My Jada Pinkett Inspired First Haircut” - The Professionals Edition
Episode 1 - The Professionals Edition
YouTube Version https://youtu.be/0mp0Lxvcrt8sion
Host: Lisa. E.
Professional Guest: Angie Boyd
EPISODE SUMMARY
This podcast is dedicated to celebrating the journey of black women to embrace their natural hair, with our host, Lisa. E, aka Natural Born Sistah, who inspires black women to groom and confidently flaunt their natural hair.
In this episode with Angie Boyd, Professional Cosmetologist and Podcaster, talks about her 23 years of coming out natural, before coming out natural was a thing. She emphasizes on why it’s important to be a professional when it comes servicing clients. Angie is a healer through the world of hair. She’s also experienced stigmatism from her hair instructor in hair school who was considered a black professional in the world of hair. .
Angie talks about why she doesn't like to use the natural hair labels such as 4 a,b, or c, which were created by Oprah's stylist as a sales tactic for the products he created. Her favorite way of describing hair is that it has a little bit of everything instead of being characterized by a certain texture or numbers and letters. This philosophy stems from how her podcast was named, “I Never Met a Texture I Don’t Like”.
Key points from this episode include;
- [02:50] Meet Natural Born Sistah, Angie Boyd.
- [05:45] Angie indicates that she is a healer through the world of hair.
- [06:11] Cosmetologist is her profession.
- [07:16] Angie breaks down how she came up with the title of her podcast.
- [09:15] Using texture labels was designed as a sales tactic.
- [10:16] Everyone now wants to have 4c Hair.
- [13.15] Angie talks about different curl patterns.
- [14:39] Angie mentions that she was natural when it wasn’t popular to be natural or acceptable
- [15:59] Angie was very curious about her texture on the day of her first chop.
- [16:35] The stylist told her that she would be looking like a boy if she cut her hair short.
- [47:49] Angie describes the role of a trichologist and why they are useful in your hair journey.
- [50:35] Jada Pinkett’s hair issues are trending.
- [52:00] Angie advises that if you decide to hire a trichologist, make sure you interview them as they would you.
QUOTES
- “If you truly look at your hair texture, you’re going to have a little bit of everything"
- “Their grouping themselves into a category that maybe they don’t belong”
- “You can’t put yourself into one category when you’re trying to create that typing thing”
- “Accept what you have and then work with what you want”
- “There are so much transformations you can create with your hair”
- “Hair education has changed over the years”
- “You can pick and choose who you allow in your hair”
Connect with Angie.
IG - @syncerelybeautiful
FB –@syncerelybeautiful
Learn about Angie’s products here at: https://sbeautiful2.com/
Connect with the Host
IG - @naturalbornsistah
IG - @kinkyinthekitchenpodcast
FB - @Natural Born Sistah
kinkyinthekitchen. hair
Resource
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