Sistas with Strands
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Who We Are...
I'm sure everyone has seen or heard about Chris Rock's Good Hair movie. After witnessing the negative depiction of black women and their hair in Good Hair and on several talk shows, a few members of a popular online community joined forces to create, Sistas with Strands (SwS).
Sistas with Strands is a group of fabulous, black women working together in effort to change the way people perceive black women and their hair. We aim to dispel myths that black women can't have healthy, long hair. We intend to showcase black women with healthy hair at a variety of hair types, textures, colors, lengths, and state (relaxed, natural, bkt'd, texlaxed, loc'd). It is also our goal to help promote black-owned hair businesses. Although black women spend more than $1.7 billion on hair care products, 80% of the hair care industry is dominated by Korean-owned businesses.
Black hair care products make up the largest single group of this market. In 2004, sales of black hair care products exceeded $1.7 billion, as reported by Mintel International Group, a consumer research company. This figure does not include the synthetic and human hair additions that have gained tremendous popularity in recent years. Koreans dominate the industry with control of more than 80% of the distribution of black hair care products, beauty supply stores and the wig and extension manufacturers. (Pettigrew)
The reality of the situation is that all black women do not wear weaves. Some black women that wear weaves don't do so because they're 'weavaholics' that don't appreciate the beauty of their real hair. Some black women choose to wear weaves primarily as a protective style. When their real hair is protected under the weave, they have the ability to maintain the health of their real hair underneath the weave. By following simple regimens, weaves can help protect their real hair from heat and other potentially damaging agents while retaining and achieving healthy, longer lengths. All black women do not have relaxed hair. There are many natural, black women with a variety of beautiful textures and lengths. All black women do not have short, damaged hair. Some black women choose to keep their hair short simply as a styling option. Whether it's short or long, relaxed, natural, texlaxed, loc'd, or bkt'd, we intend to celebrate with black women that have used healthy hair practices to grow and maintain beautiful black hair.
SwS is currently recruiting black women to participate in our campaign by submitting pictures and video testimonials of their hair. If any lovely ladies are interested in participating, please visit the testimonials section for more information.
Long hair is not required to join our group. We are welcoming every black woman regardless of hair texture, hair color, hair length, whether you are relaxed, natural, transitioning, texlaxed, bkt'd, or loc'd.
Please join today to support our campaign! Help support our mission of helping to educate, promote, inspire, and encourage black women to grow and nurture their hair.It is our hope that healthy hair practices learned and promoted will be extended to our next generation of "Sistas", our daughters, sisters, grandkids. We can prove to be a driving force to help inspire the next generation to love and appreciate the unique beauty of their natural hair. If their personal decision is to relax their hair, we want to serve as a resource to provide the necessary knowledge and techniques to have healthy, long hair.
Let's stop talking about it, and be about it!
~ Olive Brudy, founder of Sistas with Strands
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Video Testimonials
Sistas with Strands is currently recruiting black women that are interested in showcasing their healthy, beautiful tresses! If you are relaxed, natural or transitioning, we welcome you with open arms! We want to showcase black women with healthy, long hair at all stages.
The only requirement to appear in our campaign is that you have healthy, long hair.
If you are interested in participating, please review our
for more details.
Thanks!
~ Sistas with Strands
submission guidelines
Submission Guidelines
Sistas with Strands is currently recruiting black women that are interested in showcasing their healthy, beautiful tresses! If you are relaxed, natural or transitioning, we welcome you with open arms!
The only requirement to appear in our campaign is that you have healthy, long hair. We want to showcase black women with healthy, long hair at all stages.
If you are interested in participating, please download our Photo and Video Release form. After you sign the release form, you can scan it and email to sistaswithstrands_yahoo.com. After we have received your signed waiver, you can submit your photos and/or video to sistaswithstrands_yahoo.com. If you have a youtube video, please include the embed code in your email.
When submitting your pictures, don't forget to submit the answers to the following questions.
What is your hair care regimen? What does your hair mean to you? What does the term 'good hair' mean to you? How do you feel when you hear people commenting that black women can't have healthy, long hair? Are you natural, relaxed, or transitioning? What is your ultimate hair goal? How long have you been practicing healthy hair care? What was the best hair care advice you've given and/or received? What do you think is the most important thing when it comes to retaining length? What does long hair say about you?
Don't forget we are looking for at least 3 pictures. You can submit more if you like. Please include a front, back, and 'scalp' shot. If you have before and after pictures, please submit those as well.
For those interested in submitting video testimonials, we are asking that you limit your video to 2 minutes and make sure you touch on the questions above. Make sure that we can see a clear shot of your luscious hair too! It won't hurt if you gave us that 'Herbal Essence' swing for the camera. :)
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