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Gossipinbitches Exclusive:RHOA Dwight Eubanks goes to War about “Good Hair” Movie!!
Dwight Eubanks hits hard at "Good Hair" movie.
Dwight Eubanks is not “relaxing” about the “Good Hair” Bad Hair movie. He is straightening the kinks in this brutal portrayal of black hair salons. He has joined forces with hair industry professionals in forming a committee known as “Glamour Force (Focused Opportunity Reciprocating Collectively Enterprises)”. Their goal is to empower and enlighten everyone about black hair. After seeing the movie, many of the stylists’ were disturbed by the negative depictions of the services offered in black salons. Dwight is making it clear he is disturbed personally as a stylist and is insulted at the mockery that was made of black salons. Despite of going into the movie with an open mind, he came out feeling disappointed and betrayed by the movie industry for releasing this inaccurate documentary! A notably disturbing part of the movie for Eubanks, was the insistence that perms are bad and causes scalp burns, breakage, and is damaging to hair. Their understanding of the effects of perms is uneducated and irresponsible. This unfounded statement can cause a stylist thousands of dollars in revenues each year. The majority of their clients come into salons for perms. If they are made to believe perms are bad, they may decide to go natural and eliminate their stylist. Furthermore, to imply that a stylist would knowingly do anything to damage a clients scalp or hair is despicable.
"The Purple Door"
Ralph Ochoa, a stylist and committee member felt the movie was from the 1970’s prospective. It did not visit one upscale salon throughout the entire movie. There are different levels of services available, from the basic to the elite. It goes without saying, your economic level determines the type of service you will receive. Dwight’s salon “The Purple Door” is amongst the elite. He uses top of the line products and hair techniques. The movie showed lower level salons that aren’t able to use higher grade products, therefore rendering inferior results. So in a nutshell, it is like calling all black people “ghetto”. It is this unfair generalization that has ignited the wrath of Dwight and his committee “Glamour Force”. Charles Gregory a “Glamour Force” member felt not visiting higher end salons was a disservice to the documentary.
The Purple Door
Dwight found nothing positive in the movie. However, committee members Brittianca and Al Scott were able to see some positives. Scott found the movie educational and tried not to focus on the negative. Brittianca felt this would be a great opportunity to give a wake up call to the black community. The black hair care industry is a billion dollar a year industry and the majority of the businesses profiting are not black. Nor, is this money going back into the black community. She feels blacks should learn from the movie and start empowering themselves.
Dwight pointed out the movie was supposed to serve as a documentary about black hair. However, they failed to mention the most prominent force in the history of black hair care. Madame C.J. Walker was not mentioned one time in the movie. She was the first black female millionaire in the United States from her hair care products. We must put to rest the negative connotation associated with black tresses. Dwight has taken the first step.
If you are interested in joining forces with Dwight Eubanks he can be reached at glamourforce@yahoo.com.
Glamour Force Committee
Gossipinbitches.com Eb Shari was exclusively apart of this meeting. She left feeling moved by the passion committee members, who are all hair stylist, expressed on this subject.
Gossipinbitches.com Eb Shari and Dwight Eubanks
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Gossipinbitches Exclusive:RHOA Dwight Eubanks goes to War about “Good Hair” Movie!!
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Great Article!
I do feel,however, that Perms are very Damaging. My hair is Very Long, NATURAL..Free of Relaxer or Extensions…yet I visit the Salon Once per week to get my Hair Washed & Styled. So how does that eliminate the need for Stylists?
Please take a moment to check out my documentary film BLACK HAIR
It is free at youtube. 6 parts including an update from London, England.
It explores the Korean Take-over of the Black Beauty Supply and Hair biz..
The current situation makes it hard to believe that Madame C.J. Walker once ran the whole thing.
I am not a hater, I am a motivator.
Plus I am a White guy who stumbled upon this, and felt it was so wrong I had to make a film about it.
self-funded film, made from the heart.
Can it be taken back?
Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p96aaTSdrAE
Relaxers/Perms are bad and they DO cause scalp burns, breakage, and they are damaging to hair.
This is all true. The claims are not unfounded.
This guy is just mad because Chris Rock showed how the cosmetics industry sells us products such as relaxers and weaves that cause so much damage to our hair by having us believe that our natural hair is not good enough.
Also the movie didn't even touch on the subject of how many hair stylists get sick each year from inhaling harmful chemicals when styling so many heads of hair on a given day.
Dwight Eubanks is a hair stylist. He like so many other stylists are afraid of their bottom line being affect because of so many women now going natural.
"If they are made to believe perms are bad, they may decide to go natural and eliminate their stylist."
Why don't hair stylists learn healthier hair styling techniques such as rollers sets which are much better for the hair than a 400 degree hot comb? Or encourage women to wait longer between relaxer visits and not perming at the first 1/4 inch of new growth?
The African American consumer is more informed these days and black women are making more educated choices about their diet, what they put on their skin and what they put on their heads…
We have seen first hand the damage that relaxers cause and our hair follicles being destroyed by braid and weave extensions. Now we are loving our natural hair and don't have to rely on a hair stylist every 6-8 weeks.
Relax Dwight, the need for a hair stylist will never be eliminated completely. Women with natural hair still need color, cuts and trims.
Dwight Eubanks and others with this mindset that they will lose business need to learn new ways to deal with educated consumer instead of trying to keep us in the dark…that is not the answer
Also Ralph says Chris Rock didn't visit any upscale salons – What about Elgin Charles Salon? That is a black owned salon in Beverly Hills…..are you mad that Chris didn't visit Purple Door for the movie?
I just wanted to say that one of these stylists is my personal stylist and my hair is completly natural (I had a perm but my hair started to break off and it just wasn't good) and he handles my hair excellently! my hair is healthier than ever and looks better than ever. If anything now I rely on him now more than ever because I like going because he can do my hair in a way that no other stylist is able to and I can't get my roots the way he can and my hair is REALLY curly. Plus I want to keep it healthy and I noticed that when visiting his salon (Charles Gregory – Al Scott) my hair looks and feels healthy and I get compliments everywhere I go. I like the way that makes me feel and I don't feel like he makes me feel bad about my natural hair at all but sees it as a good thing. I can't really comment on the movie because I havn't seen it but I wanted to show that the motives might be deeper than just the stylists being afraid of people going natural.