- Hi guys, I'm Jackie Aina, welcome back to my channel. Today, I'm going to be doing a video on "Things Black People Made Popping." This video is not about things
that black people invented because I'm just not gonna
be talking about all that, that's not the topic of today's video. I'm gonna be talking about
things that were popularized by black people, really
put on by black people that pretty much everybody else took and ran with it, which is fine. Like it's cool being at
the forefront of trends. I'm not here to guilt anybody. This is definitely not
a shame worthy video. But as we know, and as
we've seen in pop culture, a lot of times the things
that we are humiliated, dehumanized for or ridiculed for are often praised and appreciated when it's worn by everybody
else, but black people. So today I wanted to do a video chatting about what some of the things are on it, because seems like somebody
y'all for getting your history. This is all opinion based. I'm just sharing my opinion, my thoughts on these trends
and where they come from, I'm gonna leave it at that. So look, if you still
want to turn yourself into a different ethnicity
every week, that's fine, I'm not here to judge,
I am, I am a little bit. So just sit back while I do my glam, and while we get into the topic. And this has been weighing on
my heart for a little while. It's baby hair. The reason even why
they're called baby hairs is because a lot of white
people have really fine hair, baby fine hair, and the hair around our
perimeter isn't as full or as thick as maybe someone
who has like more coarser hair, right? More thicker hair strands. So the otherwise known as unruly, which is really not unruly, hair that's around the
perimeter we call baby hair because it's like not fully formed yet. You know, it's not full grown. We have like whole
techniques, looks, products ritualistic If you will, processes to like handle
what we call baby hairs. But there are some things
that like don't make sense when non-black people do them. And I feel like the baby
hair trend is one of them. - That's just my opinion. Everybody got an opinion, everybody got something to say. - Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that
you're gonna be ridiculed or canceled for partaking,
but it just doesn't make sense because you have to force it unless the hair around your
perimeter literally grows like baby hairs. One thing that I don't
wanna do is hear people in the comments talking about, "well, I have maybe a
little," I don't really care. I didn't really ask, we're not talking about you specifically. I'm talking about non-black
groups in general. Like, it just doesn't make
sense personally to me to see non-black people participate in what we call baby hair trends because like your hair literally
does not grow that way. For the most part, I'm generalizing here, it's okay to generalize a little bit. Also shout out to everybody like five, 10-ish years ago that
lasered off their baby hairs and now they're forcing them back in. We see you. - Can't lie would love to
see that documentation. - In like the mid 2000s, there was a time where
people were lasering the hair around the perimeter because they wanted like a super defined hairline
area, whatever works, It's totally fine. But now that having excess
hair around the perimeter, unruly hair around the perimeter is cool, it's like, okay, now I'm
seeing literally baby hairs in areas where baby hairs, there is no jurisdiction for this, it's not allowed here. You know what I mean? Like these are not baby hairs, these are 401k hairs. They're fully grown. They're fully formed. Stop styling them in the
same way you would baby hair. When it comes to trends
we have to be honest and some trends are not for everyone, and that's okay. I know my lane, when it
comes to some trends. Baby hairs I just feel like, unless you have a particular hair texture like looks forced. I don't feel like I should
be demonized for saying that, especially when a lot of those
trends were demonized on me. But now that I have a thing
or two to say about them, you wanna be mad at me? No, absolutely not. Let me now y'all are gonna
start calling the back of your head kitchens, once we get to that point, that's when I'll most
certainly know what time it is. I've been doing my brows first
and my eyes first lately, not because I like the way
it looks better per se, just to really switch things up, I've really been enjoying
like switching up small parts of my makeup routine because I got nothing
but time right now girl, I'm not leaving the house. Right now, something that
is very, very, very popular that I'm actually really here
for is the Y2K aesthetic. Roughly history has shown us trends kind of recycle themselves every 10 to sometimes 20 years. So what was popular in the late 90s, early 2000s is now recirculating. And the, everything is, now I actually have the money
to splurge on the trends, the childhood young
adolescent me couldn't afford. So it's almost like
reliving the real teen era that I truly deserve. So I love the Y2K aesthetic, It was like really where I
found a lot of my personality, creatively, I thrived. And I just feel like Y2K
aesthetic pretty much embodies like technology meets fashion, right? Because everybody thought
the world's gonna end, it was like, we don't even know what 2000 looks like on a clock,
what are we gonna do? People were really freaking out. No, like they really thought
the world was gonna end once it went from 1999 to 2000. People and didn't know
what was gonna happen. I lived in survived through that. Now that it's popular again, I honestly just feel like
we need a history lesson on who put who on, because the Y2K aesthetic that I remember is very much so like TLC. I feel like Missy Elliott
is at the forefront, the founding father of Y2K aesthetic through her videos, through her music through the things that she would wear, it's all Missy. I'm telling you, it's all Missy. You can see the very,
very heavily influenced fashion choices that she wore on her video are absolutely if not inspiring but starting some of the
trends that we wear today. Aliyah the singer, may
her soul rest in peace, pioneered a lot of the Y2K aesthetic that we know and love today. There's kind of like two
sides of the aesthetic. And that one side is really tomboyish. Every street wear also obviously, obviously popularized by black people. When I think of what we used to wear and what's popular again now is a lot of baggy clothes, street wear, wearing guys clothes and like
making it fun and flirty. Two tops? If only I had titties back
then when they were popular. Two tops were everything to a Y2K girl. It was low-rise jeans, a little too low if you asked me. But hey, we did it, we indulged, it was there. I don't know if I'll be
getting back and have one because that one was the coochie cutters. I just feel like some trends
belong where they came from, and I don't know if I
can partake (indistinct). It was fun while it lasted. And I'll be living vicariously
through some of you who will be repurposing the
low rise coochie cutter jeans. When I think of Y2K aesthetics, I also think Destiny's Child
influenced this era a lot. It was the year of the girl group. It was also the year of
the boy band as well, but Destiny's child, Oh my God! They gave us platinum blonde and braids, they gave us a lot of two toppery, a lot of low-rise jeanserie, everything was blinged out. And when you think about it, the stuff that like the
black girls would wear that was deemed does
ghetto really was Y2K. It was like over the top, super flashy, everything was super
blinged out or distressed or heavily ripped up like jeans and stuff. I also feel like this
was really creatively where a lot of music videos, including Missy Elliott's influence. But I just remember like
being a kid watching, was it X, Mr. X, Director X, he, when I tell you pave the way, sweetie, some of the stuff that
we're seeing people wear every purpose now totally influenced by a lot of the music videos
that he used to shoot. I know this looks dark and intense and a little scary and triggering but please just go with me. We're going gray. And my offer today is
actually kind of early 2000s inspired too. This has been Natasha
Denona, Glam Palette, it's cute. Not normally something
that I would reach for, but I don't really have
a lot of cool tone ashy or gray palettes. So I figured I would dust
this one off and use it. Now, I can't necessarily
say if black people are the inventor of long, super long, super, just ghetto fabulous nails, this is just personally for me. I don't find ghetto to be an insult. Personally if like, if another
black person says it to me, I don't find it to be insulting. Everybody is gonna have
their own viewpoint and their own opinion on that. And that's fine. And I respect it. But ghetto to me is an aesthetic. It's not a dis. Now context also matters. So it's not what you
say, is how you say it. So trust me, you will be dealt with. If you call me ghetto in a way
that's meant to be demeaning, I'm gonna be offended. If you say the aesthetic is ghetto, or if you compliment and say, "Oh, this is kind of
ghetto chic, ghetto fab." Like I personally would not be offended. But like I said, that's just me. My opinions are not
necessarily representative of all black peoples, and that's fine. Just be mindful of that
before you go out of your way to call somebody ghetto and be like, "But Jackie Aina said it was fine." I'm just speaking for myself, Dang. Back in the day, when you wore long nails, you were pretty much
like queen of the ghetto. It was just giving very impractical, very extra, super glam. Very definitely very glam. But it just wasn't something that the average everyday person would do. And now it's like if you
don't have long nails that have some type of decoration on them, what are you doing? I feel like longer and the more extreme and the more decadent the nails are, definitely have become a
more mainstream staple. I feel like it's also become a symbol for like hyper femininity
and being overly trendy whereas I don't know, 15, 10 years ago, you know
the bad kind of ghetto, like it was basically looked at as ghetto. And I probably thought it was ghetto too. I'm not gonna lie, probably partake in some of
those very negative labels. But now I just feel like
knowing what we know about culture, fashion, history, things evolve, trends evolve, we're all without change
our mind, and that's fine. Long nails were like the
hood chic stamp of approval. Like you didn't have long nails, I just don't know what your problem is, but you don't belong here basically. And now they're everywhere. I mean, people are
having like whole careers based on like nail art,
nail jewels, nail decals, nail stickers like it's a
whole underground culture. You guys know I'm a fan of press-ons and I actually didn't really start kind of getting interested in nails until like maybe three, four years ago, so I was a little bit of a late bloomer. Now I do still believe there is a time and a place for a good nail. Like obviously some of the nails that are like super stylized and super specifically decorated, like you can only wear so many. It can only coordinate
with so many cute outfits. The point is, I'm glad to see that they are not instantly
deemed as negative or they instantly don't stamp you as like an unclean person
the way that they used to back in the day. Like if you had long nails, they'd asks you a like,
"How do you wipe your butt?" Or "What do you do you do
with those long nails?" Girl, the same thing you do or don't do, I should say because why the
hell are you in my business in the first place. if you worried about my nails, you ain't doing something clearly. I would love to see
where nails and nail art specifically evolve in
the next couple years, because like with the way press-ons have kind of like really changed my life and made nail usage more practical for me and a lot more achievable for me, what we have now, I'm just excited to see
what we get in the next five to 10 years. Speaking of Y2K, silver eyeshadow, this is definitely a trend that taunts me because when I was young, silver eye shadow on dark skin, we didn't have the resources
that we now have today. So you were pretty much asking to get drag if you had dark skin and
you wore silver eyeshadow. Because they just weren't made the same the way that they are now. They were just terrible. Now, luckily we have a lot more
wearable options, thank God. It's also just really funny to me, how, like a lot of things
that are made popular by black people, oftentimes they're like
recycled and regurgitated but then we are not given
access to those things. Like for example, some beauty products let's say a black girl
makes contouring popular, and then a company will
start manufacturing contouring products, sculpting products, but they don't make them dark
enough for the actual people that made them popular to utilize. And I'm just using
contouring for an example, I'm just using I'm not
saying we invented it, just the regurgitating of
like things that we popularize and how a lot of times we were gate-keep from those very things. It happens all the time. And if you don't believe me,
you're not paying attention. While we're talking about gate keeping, a good example of that is
some of the social media sites that we all participate in now, today. First, I'm pretty much done with my eyes for the most part, I'm
gonna take Pat wipes and just wipe off the
excess on the bottom. TikTok. Okay just one example, black
people have ran circles around apps like TikTok, and Triller. A lot of the stuff that
you see really popularized on there is probably because
of black folks period. You can just go ahead and
debate your grandfather because you already know facts are facts. And I don't play with people
when it comes to facts. You can try it if you
want to, but you'll fail. I have a TikTok, It just pretty much lives there for fun. I literally upload like
once every two months. But I'm constantly hearing black creators talk about how if you
even say a certain word in a TikTok, like your
account gets suspended or you get shadow banned. And shadow ban basically means you exist on the platform and
you clearly have an account but people basically aren't
able to organically find your content anymore. Or the app may strategically
unfollow people from you without them actually opting to do that. And that happens on literally
every social media site. It's kind of like the silent way the app likes to punish their users. It's definitely slick
'cause they do it secretly, they try to act like there's
nothing they can do about it but we know girl, we've
been know the T, all right? But yeah, we see it on TikTok, we see it on every
single social media app. It's just another example
of how the very people who have popularized this app and make this app what it is today, we have people on platforms like TikTok that are utilizing the N word, that make jokes about slavery, that make jokes about black
oppression in general, and like they don't be getting
shadow banned or deactivated. Nowadays, you can make joke videos about how you don't date black girls, or how black girls aren't attractive, or how black girls are ghetto,
the bad kind of ghetto. I see them go viral all the time. I see them go viral all the time. No repercussions, no punishment, nothing. That's horrible for obvious reasons. Another painfully obvious
thing that black people didn't even intentionally make popular, we just existed, are big lips. Big lips are not even something
that we have to emphasize because they're just there. And I feel like every
black girl has a story of how they were teased
for having big, full lips as a kid, as a child. And how now frustrating it can be to like see that very same
thing that you were born with, and that you were literally ridiculed for, now being a very popularized, damn near a booming
business for some people, that's incredibly frustrating. It's incredibly harmful. And it's even dare I say,
borderline dangerous. The regurgitating of things
that naturally come to us and rebranding it,
packaging it, selling it, making a career out of it,
commodifying it basically where for us, it's a weapon, it's a tool, it's a flaw. Look at any minstrel show, look at any black face show, some of the very obvious characteristics of black people that
were often dehumanized and things like that, were our dark skin and were our big lips. When you see the big red, you know that it's like
a minstrel show blackface as reference. This is really funny how
like history rewrites itself because some people are really gonna think in like 20, 30, 50 years from now, that like white people invented big lips. It just be so funny to me
because it's just like ah, I did all of those years. (laughs) I did all those years getting the brunt of being made fun of for this feature only for you to literally
be getting Instagram likes and sponsorships off of it. Let's talk about that. Nobody likes to talk about that. I have opinions about the conversations that people are now
having with appropriation and how they've in a
way gone out of control. And I'm just gonna leave it at that. But one thing that I will say that I feel like universally we're all on the same page about when it comes to appropriation is that it's never okay
to shame some cultures for one feature, but then
praise them on another. Like it's just universally,
not the hell okay. And it has to the hell stop now. That to me is what frustrates me the most is when something is
glorified on somebody else but then like I'm put down for it, like how though? Because you're just basically saying that you like it, you
just don't like it on me. And that is so terrible. That's so harmful. There are some conversations
as it pertains to appropriation that I'm just not
interested in partaking in. And I've accepted that. Because it's like I
don't know what the hell y'all are talking about at this point, but when it comes to stuff like big lips, when it comes to stuff like weaves, wigs, 'cause let me tell you something, don't put me on a soap box
about these weaves and wigs, don't put me on a soapbox
about hair in general, okay? Because I'll go there, I will. Weaves and wigs used to be so taboo, and even borderline embarrassing
for some black woman for you to now be up in
here, building whole brands around it, non-blacks I'm talking about, okay? I just recall pacifically
being in high school, middle school, that was around the time
I started styling my hair as many of us do. We start experimenting with hair. And I remember weaves and wigs being something that you
kind of shied away from, like, not that you shied away from talking about it,
but like if someone saw like a track or something,
like it'd be so embarrassing. I mean, rightfully so. Like I wouldn't be proud of attraction when the back of my hedge out. But I'm just saying like, it just was like you wear a weave like, and then they would call
you like dirty, you know? Like they would always
say your weaves stinks. There was a channel on
YouTube a couple of years ago, I have no clue if this
guy still makes videos. But I just remember he used to make a lot of really derogatory videos about like how black
women's hair smells so bad, how horrible it smells, he had the nerve to be a
black guy on top of that. It just played into so many stereotypes and so many demeaning messages
about like weaves and wigs. And now literally who doesn't wear weave, who doesn't wear wig. Actually let me even separate the two, because I feel like even weave wearers we're kind of probably more
than likely gonna talk crap about the girls who wore wigs, they didn't always stroll
in the same social circles, at least not 10, 15 years ago. It was a very different crowd. If you wore wigs, you're
probably somebody's grandma, no disrespect to anybody's grandma. We love you, okay? All of you. It was definitely kind
of like a more mature, more sort of conservative
thing to wear wigs. It was like, wigs were just not trendy. They were just not trendy. And then we found out
celebrities who wore wigs. And we were like, yeah, we
want in, we want in, okay? Where y'all importing this stuff from. So then they became wildly popular. But guess who did it first? Black women as usual, black people. Wigs literally started
becoming a household name. It offered the versatility, the ability to change them
and get in and out of them, the way that we didn't necessarily do. Because when you get a wig, it's sewn in, your committed, okay? It's locked in there for days,
weeks, months. (indistinct) With the natural hair movement, oh God, do I even want to go? I don't even have the natural
hair movement on my notes, but now I have to talk about it. - Girl, what's going on? - A lot of us started going natural. We needed a protective style, another protective style that we can get in and
out of relatively quickly, where we can like still
care for our natural hair. Wigs offer that versatility,
wigs offer that option, wigs offer that ability
to finesse in and out of a different hairstyle or hair color easily without damaging
your own natural hair. Why are you wearing a wig? Like what is this? Is it gonna fall off? If I had a damn dollar
every time somebody asks me, "Aren't you scared it's gonna fall off?" Girl, obviously not, I'm wearing it. But y'all grow what used to be super taboo and a no-no or like an old
lady trend is now everywhere. We were the one who really pioneered like the primary colors,
the neon hair colors, yellow wigs. Lil' Mo has been wearing
braided hairstyles that come in like bright blue, bright red, literally 15, 20 years ago,
pioneered, paved the way. Like I said, natural
hair was not on my list but I'm gonna talk about
it because I brought it up. One thing that I wanna
make very very, very clear before I get into natural hair is it's not that black
people in black cultures have any problem sharing our trends and our resources and our
styles and our movements, any that, we like, we of all people historically do not have a problem sharing, okay? It's not us. What is historically a problem is everybody else's inability
to share with black people. And it's very evident. Y'all do not like sharing
things with black people. It's like once it's
taken on a new identity with someone else, we're
strategically left out of it, and that's what I don't like. That's what I don't like specifically with the natural hair movement. And this is why I don't
make a lot of hair content in general: One, because
I mean, you can only make so much hair in my
opinion, just my opinion, I feel like I could only
make so much natural hair-related content, right? For me to just be boxed in
as a natural hair influencer. I just feel like when
it comes to some topics, you can only make so
much content about them. I would probably
personally feel like okay, I'd have to like branch out
and try something else now. The thing that I have
strategically noticed with natural hair is it
was really kind of a space that was like, okay, let's come together, let's figure out how we
can learn about our hair, care about our hair, find resources on different ways on
how to style her hair, and it was really pioneered
by people who oftentimes don't have a super defined curl pattern, or don't have what media would describe as like super desirable hair. And that's what ends up
happening with a lot of spaces when it comes to black culture is we don't fit anywhere
else so we create our own. And then we create our own and it becomes infiltrated
by everyone else. And I don't understand why
it happens every single time. We care about that, man! We care about that. The rebranded of natural hair is honestly, in my opinion like I feel
like the most insulting. It was like, we literally (indistinct) we literally can't have nothing, at all. This the Pat McGrath
foundation, by the way, I'm about to slather her on
while I drag these (indistinct). No, I'm just playing. I just feel like y'all need
to start giving natural hair girls, start giving them their coins, 'cause a lot of y'all
don't have the impact that you think you do. I see a lot of y'all doing videos that aren't actually helpful for a lot of people with natural hair, you do it because you
know it's gonna get views, you do it because you know you have a more "Aesthetically desirable
hair texture, hair type," and that's that. Like you're not making any
room or making any space for the very people who created the space because we weren't accepted anywhere else. That's just, can you argue with facts or no? Now what on earth would you benefit from occupying a space
that was literally created for black people with a very specific, a very pacific or particular
type of hair, okay? And I don't think black people initially envisioned this being an only one hair type one-hair-look-type of space, no. I think it was just like Hey,
just don't forget about us. I think literally the
natural hair community was like "Hey, just
don't forget about us." Our hair type is beautiful too. Our hair type deserves exposure too. Our hair type deserves representation too. Our hair type matters too. Just like everything else." We created a space and
then everybody said, "Hey, what about us?" I don't know what it is, and I only see this
happen with black people, but the moment black
people put like a gate around one thing, it's like we
literally can't have nothing. This is why black people are always saying "We can't have nothing." Because we try to just
have like one-off things and then here comes
somebody with their slight bending their hair
claiming to be a natural. I just don't get why. I just don't feel like every space has to be occupied by everybody. Like, I'm right now, this second, never say never, but I'm right now not trying to occupy
the country club space. It's not, for me, it's not of interest to me. They do not market to me. And right now, as it pertains to where I am in my life
today, I don't really care. That's their space. I don't care about country clubs, I don't care about golf
or any of that at all. Not right now, maybe in
10, 15 years, I might. But I'm just saying why is
it that we black (whispers). That's how you will
honestly know black people really embody that big that chick energy because any space that we try to create specifically for us, or specifically with a type of background, culture, hair type whatever, always ends up literally
being infiltrated. And I don't say infiltrated lightly 'cause that's literally what happens. It's like you put a
fence around something, everybody's jumping over the fence damn near tryna break their ankles to look at and see what we're doing, copy it, write it down,
reflip it and reverse it. The next thing I want
to talk about is AAVE: African-American vernacular English. Back in the day, we used to
call this Ebonics or slang. Now to be truthfully honest with you, I don't know where we as
a black collective stand with the term Ebonics nowadays. I don't know if that's
considered insensitive, I don't know if we phase that word out. We don't use it anymore, I don't know. That's basically what we used to call it like back in the day, okay? AAVE is being rebranded
as Stan Twitter lingo. What time are you coming back? (indistinct) - But early evening. (indistinct) - Don't be gone too long darling. Stan Twitter regurgitating AAVE and rebranding it as their own is, I'm not even kidding, something I saw happening
from a mile away, I knew that this was going to happen. And I knew that this was gonna happen based on just how confident
and how comfortable some of y'all have gotten
on Twitter and TikTok about being corrected
about your usage of AAVE. And y'all don't even have
any shame at all anymore. Personally I don't like
when like certain people call me sis for example, because it can either be condescending or it can either be literally
a term of endearment. So if you're from like the Middle East and you call me sis, I'm
likely to not be offended because I know sis is
used in like a sisterly literally like, hey
says, how are you doing? I'm not offended. If you're black and you call me sis, I'm likely to not be offended because I know you're literally like "Hey sis," like, "What's good." "What time is it?" Now, I'm not going to specify because we know that sometimes people take my videos quite literally. I'm not necessarily
talking about white people. Everybody else listen
up here, listen here. Calling me sis is literally
like the easiest way to get a side eye. Like, if I don't know you like that, or if you're saying in
a condescending way, like a lot of people
like to watch my videos and pull that whole reverse racist thing. They say that I'm like a blacks' premise, but then in the same talk, they'll be literally using
black slang by calling me sis. Don't you feel stupid? Like don't you ever get tired
of looking like a joker? I just wonder like,
don't you ever get tired of playing yourself? You feel me? Like the very thing
you're criticizing me for, you're utilizing in the process. How embarrassing? (laughs sarcastically) How embarrassing? I just don't even think I have enough time in this video to express the real depth of how deep this conversation about AAVE and how much it goes for me. There are just certain things for example, how I mentioned baby hair, it just doesn't even have the same impact when a non-black person
is utilizing that verbiage or utilizing that language. And you know what? I'll even go as far as to say
African-American specifically, that's why I like the
fact that it's called AAVE because we cannot deny the impact that like southern blacks
have on a lot of the slang that we use here in the US. It's very real. They do put us onto a lot
of really good drag-worthy sayings. That's one thing black southerners know how to do is drag you, and they will do it in
the most polite way ever. It's something that I deeply
aspire to learn how to do. Maybe I'm already good
at it, I don't know. You tell me in the comments. Okay, I'm gonna bronze
using my Dusk Face Palette from my Midas Cosmetics in collaboration with (indistinct). Anyway my baby support
black male creators. Yes he created four. He created four face pallets and they're fabulous, honey. You have a blush, you have a highlighter, you get a contour and a bronzer. So I'm gonna use the bronzer. Now y'all can fact check me on this one. if you'd like too, I feel like the excess
wearing of gold jewelry, layering and stacking of
gold jewelry, bamboo earrings a lot of that stuff,
just from my upbringing, I remember coming heavily,
heavily influenced from New York city, and specifically black
girls in New York City. And like now, it is very popular and like it's, once again,
it doesn't bother me that people wear it, but it
definitely gives me the energy of like that used to be ghetto. Like that used to be very class lists, that used to be very,
what do they call that, below the brow or below the belt, or. Basically like they're gonna cite at you if you wear stuff like that. Like that was the energy
that excess gold jewelry, bamboo earrings. Bamboo earrings, please. The epitomy of black girls did it first and that's how I'ma leave it, okay? You know exactly what the
hell I'm talking about and that's where it's going to stay. Not even that black girls did it first, but like black girls
definitely popularized it. Rappers popularized the excess
wearing of gold jewelry, diamond jewelry. A lot of rappers definitely
popularized the excess wearing of gold jewelry, stacking it layering it. The bling bling era, the
super overly flashy era, like I said, basically
like the early 2000, it was like a rite of passage
getting a nameplate necklace or a pair of bamboo earrings or a gold chain if you started
making a little bit money. I remember those things being
like your rite of passage, your key into trendiness and
into adulthood basically. This bronzer, looks so wow. I'm gonna put on a little
bit of the rare beauty blush. This is the rare beauty cream
blush in the shade love. I'm gonna put a little
bit of that on, okay? When I say a little bit I think I meant a lot, but it's okay because like I could just
stipple a little bit of powder on top of it and it'll blend out and look a little bit more calm. I actually usually do this step. (laughs) This really looks crazy. I'm not that blunt and stop judging. This actually is the step that
I usually do on a wet face, like before I do powder, but I forgot. And like, I really
wanted to wear this blush so I just put it on anyway. But it actually blended
up pretty decently. And I'm gonna go over
my translucent powder just to tone that down a little bit. Now the trick with cream blush though, is you gotta go over it
with powder to reinforce. So I'm taking another powder blush, similar color story,
and going right over it. I dunno why I made that face. Girl, I don't even
remember what point I'm on. I had to take a quick
little Postmates break. I know psychologist, honey, but I've just noticed that
there's just this very human, very normal need for people to like fit in specifically online. And people do that by
sometimes taking on a persona that they otherwise
probably wouldn't have, or maybe they act different
at home around their families. I'm not judging at all, but something's only really makes sense when they come from the culture
that they originated from. Like a lot of black slang literally comes from Southern colloquialisms
and stuff like that. This is just not to be shady, I'm really just pointing this out. Sometimes when you're from another country and you're saying ciao, like, it just doesn't hit the
same way you think it does. I don't know. Like, I don't know how to say
that without sounding shady, but, (screams) you know because it's not
just about the sling itself, sometimes your accent
plays into how it sounds and how it's perceived too. So like when you say ciao, you're saying ciaoo. How do you do that with like
a Portuguese accent? (laughs) Look, I'm not saying that
you guys can't partake, I'm just saying you have
to consider the source and you have to be mindful like okay, is this gonna hit the same? Is it gonna have the same impact? Is it gonna translate the same? Do you get what I mean? I didn't wanna do this video
to like exclude anybody. The point really was just
point out some hypotheses that a lot of us black people
collectively often talk about and often point out, or we're often told to shut the hell up. You know, not everything belongs to you, you didn't invent everything. It's just really funny,
like a lot of verbiage, a lot of people like to ask us when we just asked for like
literally the bare minimum of respect. All I'm saying in this whole video is just watch who you naming
and shaming, that's it. Watch who you're naming and shaming while you're participating
in the very same things you try to guilt black people for doing, that's all I'm saying. I definitely we'll probably
do another video like this 'cause it's actually a lot of fun. It's like sitting down,
chatting with you guys about stuff that we
talk about all the time on social media, on Twitter, we talk about this on YouTube. I'm sure this has come
up on YouTube before. One thing is you may not
like what I have to say but chances are I was not
the first person who said it or thonk it, okay? In my line, there are
also spaces, platforms, conversations that really
don't even be taking place until like black people
start the conversation. So for example, Nyma Tang,
everybody knows really popularize and kind of pioneer her
series on her channel: The Darkest Shade, where
she finds the darker shade of a lot of very
popularized beauty brands. And she tries the darker
shade that they carry, the darker shade that they offer. Now I'm not saying it's invalid at all, I'm not saying that people
who have lighter complexions. I've been on YouTube for a decade, okay? Over a decade, 11 years to be exact. Y'all know I love a good
reminder (indistinct), I promise you, nobody was really talking about lighter shades on YouTube like that. It really wasn't until
dark skinned black people started really getting the representation we've been demanding, very politely all of these years. Like once we finally started getting shine and recognition and inclusion, then I swear all of a
sudden people were like, "Oh my God I deal with that too, 'cause my skins tone's light." It's like, no, no, no, no, it's not the same. It's not the same, it's not the same. It's not the same. You probably do have a
hard time finding products, but to me it's just not the
same comparison at all, at all. I mean the other day I got a comment, God bless this person's soul. But someone had asked if I could feature like Latin models with olive skin tone, and I was like girl, I'm not a Latin model within all of the skin tone, like this is not the platform for you. They're an influx of people
with medium olive skin tones on the platform already. That's the beauty of social media, is you get to go find them. I just find that like this
very 'all lives matter, what about us too,' energy really just reminds me that like literally when it comes to damn near everything, people just wanna participate
in whatever black people are talking about or doing
or are pioneers all the time. And it's a little concerning sometimes. A lot of times I don't understand
what people are gaining from like hoping on to like
what we're doing all the time. Now one thing that I wanna make very clear is I'm not saying that
people aren't welcome to create spaces that are safe for them, I'm saying like why does
it always have to be like after black people do it. Maybe black people just
give the girls the courage that some people need
to live out their faith. I don't know. I don't know, maybe we inspire people. That's great and everything, but I would just like to see a
little originality sometimes. This is kind of like my
favorite 90s looking nude lip. Fenty Unbutton and Unveil bomb. I'm gonna finish off with
BeardedBeautyCosmetics. Shout out to black men in beauty. And one of my followers
created this brand, Sydney's Glosses, they're fab. They smell amazing. And this is the brown one. Oh, this is so good. Oh, this looks bomb. I kind of sheared out my nude. Can't forget about my hoops and my grill. All right y'all that's all
I got for today's video. Now, remember we are
not naming and shaming in today's video. I just want y'all to stop
the naming and the shaming because when black people do something, and you call it ratchet
and ghetto and hood and undesirable and tear,
it just needs to stop. It just needs to stop 'cause we know what you're really doing
is you're taking notes. 'Cause that's one thing you can take from black people is notes. That's all I got for today's video. I really hope you guys enjoyed hanging out with me and do a make-up. If you wanna watch another video, which let's be real, I know you are, 'cause like I said,
you're taking note, right? Exactly, okay. So, well. Get a pen and a paper and click. Go ahead. Go ahead, go ahead. Go ahead and click. Go ahead and click. Yeah. Hurry up. Hurry up. Dammit, hurry up.
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I really enjoyed this video and learned quite bit from it.
Re- baby hair styling. I'm ethnically middle eastern and we have a lot of hair including quite bit of baby hair. My baby hair isn't really different from the rest of my hair besides being shorter and finer. My ancestors (the Persians) have been threading their baby hair for thousands of years. I still do that to mine so we pay attention to ours also, by eliminating it :P Maybe waxing bay hair off came from us because I know waxing comes from the middle east.
Fashion archivist Rashida Renee (2010s tumblr fans may know her as blogger "naomi-hit-me" or "fvckrashida") wrote a piece for Elle with more examples of the ways in which black people have influenced fashion without receiving sufficient credit:
https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/a34244867/fashion-inspired-by-black-culture/
I have to finish watching Jackie's video, but I wanted to share :)
I'm reminded of when Zendaya wore dreads to the Oscars several years back and Giuliana Rancic joked about her smelling like weed and patchouli oil on Fashion Police. Giuliana got tons of backlash, and she had to apologize. She was accused of perpetuating a stereotype that poc who wear dreads are dirty druggies. Ironically, I went to school with a white guy who started wearing dreads and he was a total stoner.
As far as AAVE (I call it ebonics), I got a dumb comment from a classmate back in the early 90s when I was in high school. She asked me why I talked like a white girl. I retorted, ugh because my mom is white and I sound just like her. For the record, I'm biracial, and this classmate was black. I have a strong Maryland "hon" accent I inherited from my mom. When people called me, they often mistook me for my mom. You can't pick your voice, and I certainly wasn't going to start "sounding black" or using slang to please others. I probably would have had my ass kicked if I did it too.
Lol, when I was a kid and wanted long nails the white side of my family(the only family I grew up with, Asian dad wasn’t around) would say long nails are “ghetto” and “for black girls”, same with tube tops and wigs. What I was hearing growing up was that nails are ghetto, wigs are for cancer patients and ghetto black women, tube tops are for ghetto sluts. Always the terms ghetto/trashy/slutty being tied to black culture/fashion.
Funnily enough, my white mom was very eager to hop on these trends once they were popularized by white people as the “cool and hip boomer” that she pretends to be.
Idk where I’m even going with this lol but Jackie is very accurate here.
One thing I wish people recognized more is how much of AAVE that gets popularized by pop culture is directly lifted from Ball Culture which has its roots squarely in Black and Latino Queer People.
It's so frustrated seeing people directly lifted our language (that was seriously created in part to allow us to safely exist amongst the cishet population) and then go around and use these words and phrases to say homophobic and transphobic bs.
The baby hair thing, not sure if direct shade but I know Kim Kardashian lasered hers off while talking to North about managing her own hair. And she recently been seen with the same baby hair style.
This is all very US centric, so I can’t really comment on it. However, it was nice to hear the perspective I guess
There's a lot of overlap between black culture and latino culture. My aunties always show off their gold jewelry (latinas) and had names on their necklaces and large hoop earrings. I get Jackie's point though.
The curly hair thing is the only point I'm on the fence about. I can't say I know why people are trending towards natural hair.... But we have destroyed our hair with bleaching and hair straighteners and high heat. I'm not sure if it's just more low maintenance to have natural hair (which, natural beauty and minimalism is very huge right now) or if it's appropriating black culture. 🤷🏼♀️