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    Votes: 24 57.1%

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Ediese

Ediese

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I know some of you don't venture to the Offtopic forum, so I wanted to post this here too.

Re: Oprah show and shirley's letter - http://www.longhaircareforum.com/for...d.php?t=407946

I'm motivated to write to Oprah, Tyra, Wendy Williams, etc to prove that not ALL black women have damaged, unhealthy hair. I want to show that we can grow to great lengths if we choose to.. I plan to submit this letter everyday to both of those women until I get a response to, why not? (remember someone did that on Oprah years ago, and finally received a response). I think this will be a good show topic for them.

Who's with me?

CurlyMoo suggested we create a video presentation, and I think that's a marvelous idea. I know that some of you don't want to expose LHCF, and I don't think that we have to. If you guys are seriously interested, let me know. I'm tired of people thinking that it's the norm for bw to have short, damaged hair or that we wear weaves because our hair don't/can't grow. Some of us choose to keep our hair short because we prefer it that way. Some of us wear weaves because it helps retain length.

Why not educate them to see otherwise?
 
Loving the idea of a video presentation with permission of the memebrs here who have video tutorials we could have a compilation of clips and stuff we don't have to expose the board or anything
 
This is an excellent idea Ediese! Let me know how I can help in anyway. Finally, someone willing to introduce the other side of Black Hair Care.
 
I think it's a great idea.

What's with LHCF being exposed, though?? What does that mean? Are we supposed to be a secret society or something?? :lachen:
 
Ms_Twana said:
I think it's a great idea.

What's with LHCF being exposed, though?? What does that mean? Are we supposed to be a secret society or something?? :lachen:
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Some members don't want LHCF exposed coz of the things that people use like Megatek, mane n tail, monistat and all that lot. :lachen:
 
ITA with this idea, those that are OK with it and have youtube tutorial videos even if they're not members here we can ask them to join the campaign. I think we should contact Tyra too she seems like she'd take any topic.
About not being exposed, I don't think it's only the MTG, megatek, and and stuff we use, I think we want those who are open to it, or they have to be desperate about haircare, let's keep the boards on the DL cause we don't want an influx of negative disbeleivers coming here just to shut down the boards, some just aren't ready for the info here and would rather mess us up than face the truth.
Alot will find the boards anyway though, from links on youtube but that's if they're serious and really are looking to change what they've been doing.
 
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Mizz Diamonds said:
Some members don't want LHCF exposed coz of the things that people use like Megatek, mane n tail, monistat and all that lot. :lachen:
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:lachen: Oh okay. Well Mane n Tail is sold in stores sooo........ And if folks don't want people to know they put nasty stuff in their head (ie" monistat) why do it??? :perplexed

Whateva. I'll join the letter writing club, because I do believe that we wouldn't have Chris' movie, Good Hair shows on Tyra, or letters like Shirley's if more black women were educated on caring for their hair properly.
 
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Ms_Twana said:
:lachen: Oh okay. Well Mane n Tail is sold in stores sooo........ And if folks don't want people to know they put nasty stuff in their head (ie" monistat) why do it??? :perplexed

Whateva. I'll join the letter writing club, because I do believe that we wouldn't have Chris' movie, Good Hair shows on Tyra, or letters like Shirley's if more black women were educated on caring for their hair properly.
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OKAY!!! Generally anything a person won't cop to, they shouldn't be doing. You though Ww were giving you the side eye over last weeks shows, let them find out the desperate measures some will go to for an extra half inch a month. I'm thinking that will only make us look more pathetic. I'm not trying to call anybody out...but of the same token, who feels it knows it. :lachen::lachen::lachen:
 
If we just stick to the basic good regime steps that almost all of us have in common and lay off the extra stuff some of us do chasing that 1-2"/month then we'll keep it positive and in a good light and we won't look crazy or desperate. Those with the longest hair on any of the boards have the simplest regimes, so let's promote that.
 
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There's a way yall can do it without mentioning LHCF. That would avoid any potential backlash and privacy issues that members may be concerned about. You can write letters, put together videos, discuss techniques, etc, without mentioning the board. You can just say you found out about different regimens, products, and techniques on the internet, without being specific.
 
Esq.2B said:
There's a way yall can do it without mentioning LHCF. That would avoid any potential backlash and privacy issues that members may be concerned about. You can write letters, put together videos, discuss techniques, etc, without mentioning the board. You can just say you found out about different regimens, products, and techniques on the internet, without being specific.
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Makes sense, backlash can be brutal esp wtih mulitmedia involved
 
Lucia said:
If we just stick to the basic good regime steps that almost all of us have in common and lay off the extra stuff some of us do chasing that 1-2"/month then we'll keep it positive and in a good light and we won't look crazy or desperate. Those with the longest hair on any of the boards have the simplest regimes, so let's promote that.
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Esq.2B said:
There's a way yall can do it without mentioning LHCF. That would avoid any potential backlash and privacy issues that members may be concerned about. You can write letters, put together videos, discuss techniques, etc, without mentioning the board. You can just say you found out about different regimens, products, and techniques on the internet, without being specific.
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Great points. Because when I do think about it, I found LHCF while googling growing long hair. So, I was ready to find out what I needed to do and I was trying to educate myself. So, we could just mention tips ourselves and suggest that ladies just search the internet for healthy hair tips.

Although, in every letter I've written to Tyra already about doing a show on healthy haircare for blacks, I mentioned LHCF. :ohwell: Oops!! :look:
 
I think it's a great idea. I don't think Tyra or Oprah wants to hear to the good side of the story but it's worth a try.
 
I would love to do it. I would even be up to making a video presentation. Something needs to be said about Black women and hair care.
 
Great ladies! I'm so excited to get started on this.

I definitely agree that we can go about this without mentioning LHCF, and we should stick to discussing more simple regimens. I would definitely want to spotlight black owned hair businesses. You guys know that with one mention on Oprah...businesses take off.

Oh yeah, once we get photo permission, we could probably add before and after pictures along with their kiss regimen. I think we should probably separate this project into two groups (one group working on the letter and the other on the video presentation).

Can everyone that's interested send me a pm, and let me know which group you're interested in working on and when you'll be able to chat online? After I've received all pms, I'll send a message to everyone with next steps. I'd like us all to meet online in the chatroom first to get all general ideas together, then we can decide how to distribute the work.

I'm excited ladies! Even if this doesn't go anywhere, at least we could say that we tried.

ETA: ladies, Supergirl has a really great idea of creating a Facebook group to use as our link instead of implicating LHCF.
 
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I voted for other. Yes, it would be good to show and tell black girls techniques to grow hair. I wouldn't want lhcf to be discover, because I will have a problem with other races thinking we need mn to grow our hair.
 
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tyra is doing a "hair academy" show soon, so please send this soon. i'm a little nervous about that show :look:
 
Esq.2B said:
There's a way yall can do it without mentioning LHCF. That would avoid any potential backlash and privacy issues that members may be concerned about. You can write letters, put together videos, discuss techniques, etc, without mentioning the board. You can just say you found out about different regimens, products, and techniques on the internet, without being specific.
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Yes I agree we should leave LHCF out of the letter because of privacy for all members, I dont agree exposing LHCF .
 
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