Should you watch Good Hair?
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Good Hair
Documentary · 2009
An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of the Black community.
The sides of Good Hair
- Chris Rock asking why his daughter wants good hair
- A hair show battle in Atlanta
- Temples in India where hair is shaved for weaves
Good Hair is good for you if…
- you like Chris Rock cracking jokes in salons and barbershops.
- you want to know where weaves come from and what they cost.
- you like a father trying to answer his little girl's question.
Good Hair is bad for you if…
- you need a story with something at stake.
- you want hard numbers rather than a comedian's interviews.
About: beauty · self-esteem · money
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