Deante’ Kyle

It's a choice.

Absolutely.

Yeah, I think the conversation that was being had, some of the women who were advocating for natural hair was just like, don't conflate the wig with your beauty.

With it or without it, you're beautiful.

You know what I mean?

That part has to be embraced.

Now, if you're talking about starting this 26 years ago, which that's 26 years of the show, but not the avocation, right?

I'm pretty sure that's been a lifelong thing.

How hard was it like late 90s, early 2000s where relaxers was all the hype?

And just how hard was it for people for you to get that information to people and them apply it?

Do you, so that being a thing makes me think about the influence that pop culture has on trends and movements within our community.

Like just seeing Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice.

Like also we have like what they call the pixie cut in our community has been known as the knee along.

How, how much influence have you seen outside, even outside of that?

Like,

where we name certain hairstyles to, like, celebrities or shows or things like that.

And how has that, like, helped or hurt your business in certain ways?

Yeah.

You was talking about being a part of the nation earlier.

A lot of my foundation comes from the nation.