Speaker 1: One thing we all have in common is none of
Speaker 1: us want to be.
Speaker 2: Bald, right, Nobody wants to be bald. Nobody wants to
Speaker 2: be joked on about their edges or hair loss. That's
Speaker 2: the new Yo, mama for real? Like people like shut
Speaker 2: up with no edges like it just what you say
Speaker 2: back to that.
Speaker 1: You can't say anything because those edges are gone.
Speaker 2: You just got to blink and just say apologies, pardon me,
Speaker 2: I overstepped, like I.
Speaker 1: Will come back to this conversation on later.
Speaker 2: We will reconvene tomorrow. But tomorrow you can come back strong.
Speaker 1: Right, you need an argument, wig and yesterday you got me.
Speaker 1: But today I'm ready. I'm ready. Edges missing were rare,
Speaker 1: stiff well edges.
Speaker 2: Here, I'm t T and I'm Zakiah and from Spotify Studios.
Speaker 2: This is Dope Labs. Today we're talking about hair.
Speaker 1: All of y'all's hair, man hair, lady hair, non binary hair.
Speaker 2: Some of y'all's hair that don't lay down that you
Speaker 2: keep trying to lay.
Speaker 1: Down, straight hair, curly hair.
Speaker 2: Places where there used to be here, but now there's none.
Speaker 1: Hair in places where there was no hair before.
Speaker 2: People have been obsessed with hair since the beginning of time?
Speaker 2: So why are we talking about it today? Well, recently
Speaker 2: we started to notice something different about how we're talking
Speaker 2: about hair and more importantly, who is talking about it.
Speaker 2: Let's see it up for the people.
Speaker 1: So all of this started because Safari was doing some
Speaker 1: interviews and the age old tale was that Safari was
Speaker 1: writing Nicki Minaj's rhymes for her. Yes, but he was
Speaker 1: doing these interviews and people were asking him, did you
Speaker 1: write you know, Roman's Revenge? Did you like some of
Speaker 1: her best songs? And he wasn't saying yes, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't saying no either, right, And so she just started
Speaker 1: going off on social media about him and how like
Speaker 1: he's a bum and he's never written anything for her
Speaker 1: and all she did was help him and everything like that,
Speaker 1: and he was trying to clap back, and she came
Speaker 1: with the ultimate clap, the thunderclap, the thunderclap, and said, well,
Speaker 1: I paid however much for you to bring that hairline
Speaker 1: for it, and everybody was just like, oh, I know.
Speaker 2: It was it was like the whole internet. You could
Speaker 2: you could just the internet.
Speaker 1: It was a wave, yes it was. It was a gasp,
Speaker 1: but it just would travel through time, and so of
Speaker 1: course we immediately run to the internet and did our
Speaker 1: googles image do Google dot com exactly, and you see
Speaker 1: Safari adding an extra at least half inch to his hairline.
Speaker 2: But then we also started noticing regular regular Joe blow
Speaker 2: is adding extra interest to his hairline exactly. And not
Speaker 2: even just interest on the hairline. I'm talking about bundles. Okay,
Speaker 2: we got man added bundles to the front. And so
Speaker 2: I feel like it happened overnight. It was like I
Speaker 2: didn't know anything about it. And then the videos were everywhere.
Speaker 2: It's blowing up all over Instagram.
Speaker 1: You've seen those those viral videos man men going from
Speaker 1: absolutely bald to looking like full on woolly Willie.
Speaker 2: You remember those things where they dragged the magnet. You
Speaker 2: dragged the magnet up.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's like.
Speaker 2: You got mister potato hair hair like you went from
Speaker 2: you were.
Speaker 1: A spud last week, exactly.
Speaker 2: Like by Nicki Minaj out in Safari right talking about
Speaker 2: the surgery. Then all these men rallied around him and
Speaker 2: were like, you know what, I'm doing a little something
Speaker 2: over here too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 2: And now I feel like people are like, look at
Speaker 2: my new transformation. It's like when the wind blew and
Speaker 2: we saw Naomi Camel's edges. It's like the wind is
Speaker 2: going and we can see all these men's edges. All
Speaker 2: these men are having hair procedures done.
Speaker 1: All these dudes have been lurking in the shadows and
Speaker 1: now they're out in the open doing these things and saying, hey,
Speaker 1: love me or leave me alone. So clear, and I
Speaker 1: have some feelings about what's going on here in the
Speaker 1: in the hair world. But let's see what you guys
Speaker 1: had to say.
Speaker 2: Have you seen the Instagram videos with all the guys
Speaker 2: having these man weaves?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't seen a lot of them, but I've
Speaker 3: seen a few.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yikes.
Speaker 4: One dude that had something that looked like a mop
Speaker 4: on top of his head, and he all of a
Speaker 4: sudden looked like eat yourself. But I was like, wait,
Speaker 4: what just happened here? He was stone Colt Bald.
Speaker 1: So you've never seen it before? I have not.
Speaker 5: I have not, and I'm kind of shocked. I don't
Speaker 5: know what to think right now.
Speaker 2: What's your general impression.
Speaker 3: I just feel like for some of them, it is
Speaker 3: just better if they don't do too much. You don't
Speaker 3: have to do all of that, people are still gonna
Speaker 3: like you.
Speaker 2: I do not think men need to wear weaves. You
Speaker 2: should just cut all your hair off. I think a
Speaker 2: bod man is a sexy man.
Speaker 1: So would you date a dude that got a man
Speaker 1: with no dang she didn't even hesitate?
Speaker 6: No, no, I know I would not date someone who
Speaker 6: had to hear unit we've whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 6: But I also don't think it's fair to say that
Speaker 6: men shouldn't be able to or they shouldn't do it
Speaker 6: if it's what makes them feel comfortable.
Speaker 1: Do you think you would ever get a hair piece
Speaker 1: like that?
Speaker 7: I don't want to knock.
Speaker 5: I want to knock on wood, but I don't see
Speaker 5: myself getting a hair piece.
Speaker 7: I just have to live with it.
Speaker 5: I'll try to, like get a cool haircut around it
Speaker 5: or something to wear a baseball cap or something, but
Speaker 5: I can't do that.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: It depends on how you do it, what fits your face,
Speaker 3: what fits your features, because it's not just oh, don't
Speaker 3: do it, period, but find the one that fits you.
Speaker 1: So let's dive into the recitation and just a reminder.
Speaker 1: The recitation is where we unpack today's topic and figure
Speaker 1: out what questions you want to ask.
Speaker 2: Let's start with what we know. And the one thing
Speaker 2: we know is that this is nothing new. Men have
Speaker 2: been getting crazy stuff done to their hair for a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 1: Remember that episode of French Prince where Uncle Phil was
Speaker 1: like trying to impress some lawyers or judges or something
Speaker 1: like that, and Carlton convinced him to get a hair piece,
Speaker 1: and he looked crazy. It was like this little curly
Speaker 1: two pey on the top of his head. And from
Speaker 1: there we've just escalated. And we also know that losing
Speaker 1: your hair is a part of getting old.
Speaker 2: Hair loss is natural, just like hair turning gray is natural.
Speaker 1: So one thing that I think I know already is
Speaker 1: that hair and stress go hand in hand. There was
Speaker 1: one time in grad school there was like maybe two
Speaker 1: inch by two inch patch behind my left ear where
Speaker 1: the hair just started falling out, and I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: what is happening? But I felt like I couldn't tell
Speaker 1: anybody because I was so embarrassed. So I was just like,
Speaker 1: you know, push the hair over to one side and
Speaker 1: be like, there's nothing wrong here. And to this day,
Speaker 1: I still don't know what was going on because I
Speaker 1: never talked to a doctor about it. I never talked
Speaker 1: to my friends about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is my first time hearing this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I hope you in my mind you would
Speaker 1: have been like, here, put these coffee grounds behind your ear.
Speaker 2: Coffee grounds. Let me tell you, it's power in the coffee.
Speaker 2: I know that when I wake up, I'm dead. I
Speaker 2: know I drink coffee and I'm a functional human being.
Speaker 2: This is a whole person. Not what else the coffee
Speaker 2: beans can do for that two by two patch. Okay,
Speaker 2: the power to restore.
Speaker 1: It might have, but we'll never know. And so I
Speaker 1: would love to know because I know that other people
Speaker 1: experiences where it's like, like when you're stressed out, your
Speaker 1: hair falls out. That's what people just say. But why
Speaker 1: how So the other thing that I really want to
Speaker 1: know about is how social media is affecting how we
Speaker 1: feel about our hair. Like selfie culture is a real thing.
Speaker 1: People are taking way more selfies these days than they were,
Speaker 1: you know, back when we all had sidekicks next heel
Speaker 1: chirp phones only two way page right, So it's like
Speaker 1: now selfies are like the name of the game, Like
Speaker 1: you got to know your angles and everything like that.
Speaker 1: So I feel like maybe it does have an effect
Speaker 1: on how we feel about our hair.
Speaker 2: So it's time for the dissection. That's our deep dive
Speaker 2: where we talk to one of our very, very smart friends.
Speaker 2: And for today's dissection, we're talking to doctor Monty Oid Harris.
Speaker 7: Yep, doctor Monty Oid Harris. I am a surgeon, scholar, entrepreneur,
Speaker 7: and I like to go by the name of the
Speaker 7: do good hair doctor.
Speaker 2: But before we talk to Manty, let's all get on
Speaker 2: the same page with the hair terminology. Let's start with
Speaker 2: the scalp. Your scalp is hosting about one hundred thousand hairs,
Speaker 2: and your hair shaft is what you see. It's on
Speaker 2: the outside of your head, but there's more beneath the surface.
Speaker 2: Your hair follicle is embedded in your scalp and holds
Speaker 2: the root of your hair, and that's the part of
Speaker 2: your hair that is alive. And really, hair loss is
Speaker 2: as normal as going to bed every night. We lose
Speaker 2: about one hundred hairs per day. But the hair loss
Speaker 2: we're t today is a little more extreme than that.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons we wanted to talk to doctor
Speaker 2: Harris is because his approach to hair is so different.
Speaker 2: He really incorporates a lot of different sciences. So he's
Speaker 2: looking at the biology of hair loss. So what's happening
Speaker 2: to the actual follicles, the psychology, what's going on in
Speaker 2: your life that's giving you stress or whatever, and some
Speaker 2: of the social factors around hair loss. So what is
Speaker 2: the cultural context for hair loss?
Speaker 1: Right, He's not just telling you to rub this oil
Speaker 1: on your scalp and everything will work itself out. He's like,
Speaker 1: you might need to do some self reflection.
Speaker 7: A big part for me is that I've been really
Speaker 7: looking at how do I kind of reframe this whole
Speaker 7: idea around hair and the notion of good hair and
Speaker 7: really making it it sort of an active and restorative process.
Speaker 1: So I get to do good hair, got to do it.
Speaker 1: The very first question we got to ask doctor Harris
Speaker 1: is the bedrock question. What is hair loss? What are
Speaker 1: the different types of ways that people lose their hair?
Speaker 1: And why do they lose their hair?
Speaker 7: I like to say that there's kind of a big three,
Speaker 7: a big three types of hair loss that I see
Speaker 7: day in day out, day in day out.
Speaker 2: The first type of hair loss is called traction alopecia.
Speaker 7: Neice hair loss related to like prolonged pulling intension, you know,
Speaker 7: like braids and weeds, and it typically happens, you know,
Speaker 7: in the temples those are that's the edges.
Speaker 1: The second major type of hair loss is called scarring alopecia,
Speaker 1: and it's especially common with African American women.
Speaker 7: It's more of like if the scalp ends up being shiny,
Speaker 7: and there's there's a variant of it that sort of
Speaker 7: starts at the center of the scalp, and it's called
Speaker 7: central and it's got this really long, complicated.
Speaker 1: Name central centrifugal sickatricial alopecia. Try saying that's six times
Speaker 1: fast gobbledly. You know.
Speaker 7: Folks call it CCCA.
Speaker 1: Doctors haven't been able to pinpoint the cause of CCCA,
Speaker 1: but what happens is is the hair follicle gets replaced
Speaker 1: with scar tissue, which leads to permanent hair loss for
Speaker 1: some people.
Speaker 7: When I see it, it's like, hey, we got to
Speaker 7: prevent this from getting words because we don't really have
Speaker 7: cures for it. Part of the whole mindset around it
Speaker 7: is prevention.
Speaker 2: And the last of the big three is what we
Speaker 2: call androgenetic hair loss, and it's just natural hair loss
Speaker 2: that folks get as part of the process of agent.
Speaker 7: And so those things can be all accelerated by your life.
Speaker 1: Right, you know, and so you need to live different.
Speaker 7: They're all accelerated by your life, you know, and whether
Speaker 7: that's your diet, you know, whether that's stress, and those
Speaker 7: and we can really have an holistic approach to sort
Speaker 7: of improving all of them based on essentially, you know,
Speaker 7: changing in lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Speaking of living different, I really want to know, like
Speaker 1: why I started losing my hair in grad school? What's
Speaker 1: that about?
Speaker 7: When you're stressed, right, your body is basically and your
Speaker 7: head is basically, oh, there is a threat. I need
Speaker 7: to protect myself.
Speaker 1: So basically what my body was saying was T T
Speaker 1: you and danger girl.
Speaker 2: When there's a threat, the body prioritizes blood flow to
Speaker 2: more important organs like your heart and lungs.
Speaker 7: And so the hair then doesn't get the nutrients that
Speaker 7: in needs.
Speaker 1: Doctor Harris has applied his holistic treatment and prevention methods
Speaker 1: for all different kinds of hair loss. One of those
Speaker 1: treatments is hair transplant surgery, right, and that's what Safari did.
Speaker 2: And so this process is really interesting because they take
Speaker 2: this thin strip from the back of the head, So
Speaker 2: basically they pull that scalp from the back. He separates
Speaker 2: the hair follicle by follicle and then uses these teeny
Speaker 2: tiny tweezers to just plant each one of those follicles
Speaker 2: back into the thin spots in the front of your head.
Speaker 1: Okay, but why does he take the hair from the
Speaker 1: back of the head. Why can't he take it from
Speaker 1: like the middle of your head? What's is there something
Speaker 1: different about the hair back there.
Speaker 7: The crazy thing about it is that the hair at
Speaker 7: the back has a very special sort of like genetic
Speaker 7: programming to be extremely resilient.
Speaker 2: That's why we see common balding patterns where people still
Speaker 2: have hair growth at the back of their head.
Speaker 7: That's how you know, transplanting a lot of these other
Speaker 7: techniques came into being is because you could literally take
Speaker 7: that hair and move it to other places and it'll
Speaker 7: still grow.
Speaker 2: Once it gets there. It's just like, huh, the hair
Speaker 2: follicle doesn't care where it is. It's just like new home.
Speaker 1: Who this? Okay, So we're gonna take a quick break
Speaker 1: and process all of this, and when we get back,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to doctor Harris more about Safari Man. We
Speaker 1: selfies and social media and some of the biggest misconceptions
Speaker 1: when it comes to hair growth and hair loss. And
Speaker 1: you gotta stay tuned for this because this blew my mind.
Speaker 2: All right, So we're back. We asked doctor Harris about
Speaker 2: social media and how that's affected people's perception and awareness
Speaker 2: of hair loss.
Speaker 1: Is there some type of correlation between the two.
Speaker 7: There's been no other time probably in the history of
Speaker 7: human civilization, right, that folks are engaging and looking at
Speaker 7: themselves as much as they are now. Yes, So I
Speaker 7: started to see a growing and growing misalignment related to
Speaker 7: an individual's this notion of self image and self fact, right,
Speaker 7: who are you really at your core? And then what's
Speaker 7: this layer of image that's on this and is this misaligned?
Speaker 7: Their aligned? And so as the misalignment started to get bigger,
Speaker 7: particularly with patients that were looking for changing their nose
Speaker 7: and changing their lips, you know, I was like, this
Speaker 7: doesn't really add up anymore for me.
Speaker 2: So doctor Harris thinks that looking at yourself obsessively with
Speaker 2: filters can lead to your mind being tricked into thinking
Speaker 2: that's actually how you look.
Speaker 1: We wanted to ask, y'all, do you think social media
Speaker 1: is changing how we think about ourselves. Here's what y'all said.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like millennials like us are consumed with ourselves?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, honest, there are some of us that are
Speaker 3: consumed with ourselves. But I also feel like social media
Speaker 3: doesn't help because a lot of girls out here don't
Speaker 3: be feeling confident about themselves because they're trying.
Speaker 4: To look like some I think absolutely social media is
Speaker 4: impacting that because I can't get on Instagram without the
Speaker 4: explore page showing me some new wig that I should
Speaker 4: probably explore getting, So it does make me want to
Speaker 4: click and add to cart, it does.
Speaker 6: I think it's a combination of self obsessed and keeping
Speaker 6: up with the next person.
Speaker 3: I just feel like we need to be able to
Speaker 3: separate what's reality and what's not, and what's healthy and
Speaker 3: what's not. Just because it looks good doesn't mean it's,
Speaker 3: you know, good for you to get. In the long run,
Speaker 3: it's gonna come back and bite you.
Speaker 4: Do you think you take a lot of selfies? No,
Speaker 4: I'm never selfie ready. I have a one year old
Speaker 4: and a four year old. I take a lot of
Speaker 4: selfies of them, not myself.
Speaker 1: Can you open your phone and let us see the
Speaker 1: number of selfies you have? Sure, nine and thirty one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all babies. Okay, let's see I elf as you
Speaker 1: got girl. You only got three hundred and eleven. Oh,
Speaker 1: only a little bit in eleven. That's not that bad.
Speaker 1: I cannot reveal that number. Oh my god, thirteen hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty six. At this point, this is where we
Speaker 1: decided to show doctor Harris one of the Instagram videos
Speaker 1: that went viral of a man getting this what do
Speaker 1: we call it zee a man weave getting his man
Speaker 1: we've put in. Okay, so it starts off with a
Speaker 1: man that his hairline has receded, probably about five or
Speaker 1: six inches.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the Roberts cutting down most of it, so
Speaker 2: it's all down.
Speaker 1: To a low level. And he's given him like a
Speaker 1: little fade in the back.
Speaker 2: But wait, looks like this is this magic marker they
Speaker 2: have drawn on a hairline. It is, okay, some ninety
Speaker 2: degree angles here. They're laying the foundation for the new,
Speaker 2: the new look.
Speaker 7: Oh no, I think this is about to be though.
Speaker 7: The man waves no.
Speaker 1: And then he has these like are those dreads fingercool?
Speaker 2: These are silky, silky coils just magically on here.
Speaker 1: Yep. I don't know how they got up there, but they're.
Speaker 2: There, right, Yeah, what do you think about that?
Speaker 7: So it's like magic, you know, it's like boom bam,
Speaker 7: I've looked out like whoa. I think it starts to
Speaker 7: feed some degree of self divisiveness.
Speaker 1: That's that self image rss a self fat thing. So
Speaker 1: when you see that flower crown, you don't have those sparkles,
Speaker 1: you don't have glitter raining down on you. Your chin
Speaker 1: ain't that plenty, your eyes aren't that big.
Speaker 2: And the whites are definitely not that bright. Mostly all
Speaker 2: out here looking jaundice.
Speaker 1: All this talk about self perception and aspirations to look
Speaker 1: like someone else is making me think of someone who
Speaker 1: a lot of girls wanted to look like back when
Speaker 1: we were growing up. Do you think you can guess who?
Speaker 1: I'm hard to know who you're talking about. It's Brandy.
Speaker 2: Brandy had those box braids and I was like, that's
Speaker 2: my style.
Speaker 1: I want to be her. I want that burn those ends,
Speaker 1: burn the ends. I want a short bob, I want
Speaker 1: to put it up in a ponytail. Where's Dion Moesha
Speaker 1: sing it Tuta eat Tuta Moosha. When Brandy first came
Speaker 1: out and she had all those braids, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: sitting down in the shop and my hair braided, having
Speaker 1: my cousin braid my hair. I was getting crochet braids.
Speaker 2: And recently, you know, now we can kind of we
Speaker 2: have the devices to help us see those high resolution photos.
Speaker 2: They're saying those were wigs, And I said, Brandy, you
Speaker 2: have lied to us because all of us lost our edges. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: she has a full head of hair. Take those micro
Speaker 2: braids off every night exactly.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, and so that brings up a really
Speaker 7: big point. And that and that, and that's you know,
Speaker 7: the whole thing about deception, you know, deception and costumes.
Speaker 7: As we look at celebrity, right, majority of celebrity, a
Speaker 7: lot of that's costume.
Speaker 2: Brandy knew her hair was amazing, Okay, but it had
Speaker 2: to be. She was on TV in our living rooms
Speaker 2: every week. But now everybody's living their life in the
Speaker 2: public eye. We're taking selfies constantly, and so now everybody's
Speaker 2: feeling that same pressure. Now we all got to be
Speaker 2: out here like Moesha exactly without a hair out of place.
Speaker 2: I can't live up to that. It's like you're supposed
Speaker 2: to look like you have a million dollar hairstyle, but
Speaker 2: not that you put any effort into it.
Speaker 1: Exactly. You're supposed to just wake up like that.
Speaker 2: And that's not the case. It's not and you learned
Speaker 2: that from early age, Like because I didn't get a
Speaker 2: relaxer early on. It will be like, no, you can't
Speaker 2: play out there, don't sweat your hair out. Don't sweat
Speaker 2: your hair out, right, So what's that telling me? That's
Speaker 2: why I don't like to exercise?
Speaker 1: Kind of kind of, maybe that's what that's what we'll
Speaker 1: say you need too, it's because I don't want to
Speaker 1: sweat my hair out. Before we left, we really wanted
Speaker 1: to know if there were any common misconceptions about hair
Speaker 1: care or hair loss.
Speaker 7: Here's probably biggest misconception. It just clicked, this notion of
Speaker 7: the protective hairstyles.
Speaker 1: Oh no, this is a problem. A protected style is
Speaker 1: a technique to stop your hair from breaking and maintaining
Speaker 1: the health of your hair. You do this by braiding
Speaker 1: your hair and usually putting on a weave or a wig,
Speaker 1: or just wearing your hair in that braided style.
Speaker 2: But people are attributing everything to protective styles. My hair
Speaker 2: is shiny because of my protective style. My hair is
Speaker 2: long because of my protective style. I gotta raise it
Speaker 2: my job because of my protective style.
Speaker 7: So I'm not saying there isn't a sort of a
Speaker 7: space for it, but it tends to be a limited,
Speaker 7: very circumscribed space. And folks, unfortunately have expanded this idea
Speaker 7: of protective styles in manners where they ultimately become harmful.
Speaker 2: So it's protected for five weeks, but not five years.
Speaker 2: If you haven't seen your own scalp in that long,
Speaker 2: you got to ask yourself some questions.
Speaker 1: It is a kia. I can think of a time
Speaker 1: where you did something to your hair in the name
Speaker 1: of hair care. Yes, I think the people need to
Speaker 1: hear this story.
Speaker 2: Well, everybody gather around the fireside, okay, because let me
Speaker 2: tell you a tale as old as time, and it
Speaker 2: is when your friends try to help you out.
Speaker 1: She's gonna try and blame me.
Speaker 2: I'm not blaming t T. I should have known not
Speaker 2: to trust her, okay.
Speaker 1: T T.
Speaker 2: Went to this hair shop where she was getting You
Speaker 2: used to get that whip shay butter. Yes, it was
Speaker 2: so good, and you always give me some. And you said, oh,
Speaker 2: but the lady told me about this hair mask that
Speaker 2: they have, and you were like, it's a banana egg,
Speaker 2: some oil and you blend it all together, or you
Speaker 2: mix it all together and you put it on your
Speaker 2: hair and you let it sit and then you wash
Speaker 2: it out right.
Speaker 1: And I just want to preface this story because that
Speaker 1: was very accurate the way you said it.
Speaker 2: I never told you to do it. Yes, you never said,
Speaker 2: but you said proceed. She transferred the information, and thinking
Speaker 2: that this was a credible source, I said, I have
Speaker 2: those things at my house, right, got a very right
Speaker 2: banana Okay, well, saving it for banana bread. Little did
Speaker 2: I know that's what I was making in my hair.
Speaker 2: I mixed that stuff together. I mashed it up with
Speaker 2: a fork. I'm in my I was in my bathroom
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, yes, because when I'm gonna
Speaker 2: put this stuff on, I put a little shower cap on.
Speaker 2: Because back then the YouTubers were telling us that you
Speaker 2: need to basically collect greenhouse gases to really let stuff
Speaker 2: penetrate into the cuticle of the hair. Okay, So I
Speaker 2: was like, I'm gonna put this stuff on. I put
Speaker 2: that little shower cap little like from a hotel shower
Speaker 2: cap I let it sit. I said, oh, yes, it's
Speaker 2: gonna hoo, gonna be shiny when I take this off.
Speaker 2: And I was like, all right, I gotta get this
Speaker 2: stuff out of my hair. So I rinsed it and
Speaker 2: I got the shower. This was on my natural hair journey,
Speaker 2: and I was like, huh, still got some little chunks
Speaker 2: in here. I'm like, I'm it's probably the water is
Speaker 2: not hot enough. So I get back in the shower.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna really get this stuff out of here now.
Speaker 2: I didn't really think about what I was doing, because
Speaker 2: basically what I had done was I'd already had all
Speaker 2: the ingredients for banana bread and then I just turned
Speaker 2: the oven on, right, I turned the temperature of the
Speaker 2: water up, I just turned the oven off, and I
Speaker 2: basically baked the cake.
Speaker 1: So Midro, I have to go to the lab the
Speaker 1: next day.
Speaker 2: I'm texting TT like, girl, I don't know, I'm really
Speaker 2: having a hard time getting this stuff out, and she's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm sure to be fine. I was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do one more washing. That's it, because I'm tired. I'm
Speaker 2: going to bed. So I go to work the next
Speaker 2: day and I'm just like, is all the banana stuff out?
Speaker 2: Tt you came by the lab, what did you see.
Speaker 1: The next day? She makes it sound like she was
Speaker 1: very pleasant. When she asked me. She wasn't okay. She said,
Speaker 1: this banana is still in my hair. I was she
Speaker 1: was living and I said, okay, well, let me come look.
Speaker 1: Her lab was right across the street from my lab.
Speaker 1: So I get over there, and when I tell you,
Speaker 1: from down the hall, I could see this banana. She
Speaker 1: had banana chunks in her hair. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, She's gonna kill me if I say
Speaker 1: I could see this banana. So I'm like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: this is just a little bit in there. So I'm
Speaker 1: like trying to pick up out, but there's millions of
Speaker 1: banana pieces in her hair.
Speaker 2: You know, when you embarrassed like that, you lash out
Speaker 2: at the ones you love. I was very upset with
Speaker 2: T and I was like, you told me that this
Speaker 2: was work. You told me that this was supposed to
Speaker 2: be conditioning.
Speaker 1: And I said, I didn't tell you anything. I told
Speaker 1: you with somebody else that told.
Speaker 2: Me, so be careful of the messenger. Don't let any people.
Speaker 1: She's gonna kill the Messenger. I definitely was ready to
Speaker 1: kill the messenger that day. I was just embarrassed. I
Speaker 1: was hurt, but it was fine. You know, you had
Speaker 1: a snack if you needed one. Hey, come on, I
Speaker 1: was getting all the servants of fruit. Hello friends.
Speaker 2: I feel like it was like my eyes were open,
Speaker 2: but somebody peeled the film off of them.
Speaker 1: Cataract surgery. Yes, I feel like I just had LASiS
Speaker 1: exactly right, because I knew hair was important, but I
Speaker 1: didn't even think of it as like how the stress
Speaker 1: ties in all these things are connected, Like we got
Speaker 1: to start from the inside out with these edges.
Speaker 2: And I went straight to Whole Foods after that, because
Speaker 2: what did you get? Kale, leafy greens, all the healthy
Speaker 2: things that I felt like were gonna nourish me from
Speaker 2: the inside out.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of fiber. I hope your tummy doesn't.
Speaker 2: Hurt when I go from this shortcut to a bob.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be wondering how I did it fiber.
Speaker 1: I guess. Another thing that was surprising for me was
Speaker 1: how he was talking about how with this increase of
Speaker 1: visibility and looking at yourself with social media, that he's
Speaker 1: seen a rise in people who are coming to get
Speaker 1: hair restoration and plastic surgery and things like that, and
Speaker 1: it's not just women.
Speaker 2: When he said self image versus self fat fact read.
Speaker 1: Exactly, I was like, I chill one up. I feel
Speaker 1: like there's definitely things I can do differently with my hair.
Speaker 1: I need to unlearn everything that I thought I knew
Speaker 1: about protective styling and what it was doing for my hair.
Speaker 1: So like, if I get braids, maybe not have them
Speaker 1: in for a long time and still making sure that I'm,
Speaker 1: you know, doing things that are good for my scalp
Speaker 1: and everything like that while they're in, so that when
Speaker 1: I take them out, I could feel like it was
Speaker 1: a protective style and that my hair benefited from that process.
Speaker 1: Protected for a season, not for a year. Okay, So
Speaker 1: to be clear, no, I have for a year braids
Speaker 1: for a year. I have these people thinking that my
Speaker 1: hair smells like an old carpet.
Speaker 2: Apologies, let me put on my arguing wig.
Speaker 1: Are you going to get an arguing wig? Still? I
Speaker 1: think everybody should invest in an argument wig just in case.
Speaker 1: What about you? Are you gonna do anything differently with
Speaker 1: your hair?
Speaker 2: With my spirit, I feel like not a protective hairstyle,
Speaker 2: but a protective lifestyle about to cut the stress out out. Okay,
Speaker 2: I feel like since we kind of can predict this,
Speaker 2: if there's anybody out there listening, what is the correct
Speaker 2: stop to invest in?
Speaker 1: Because I predict that this thing is going straight to
Speaker 1: the talk. Got to wrap on Lab two of Dope
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Speaker 2: Can people use armpit hairs?
Speaker 7: Yeah? They can use hair from all over the body,
Speaker 7: pubic hair too, Yeah, folks who do that right? And
Speaker 7: then yeah, so.
Speaker 2: M I feel like my chin is a great donor region.
Speaker 2: And why is it so? I read this thing that
Speaker 2: said that I know