They would never allow a commercial like this to run today...... Beautiful Black Queen...... We had so much pride in ourselves back then..... What in the hell happened?

@hakashitakanawa1337

7 жыл бұрын

Drugs implanted by the cia is what happened

@GeekBoy03

7 жыл бұрын

Whiteners, and hair straighteners.

@byoung4eva1

7 жыл бұрын

Black ppl were told their hair was a political statement, other races started appropriating/copying the afro look, other races started growing their hair long and the afro and long hair became part of a hippie movement, white ppl told black ppl there fro had to go if they wanted to keep a job, and last but not least, black ppl were really still in search for a "cure" for the kinks in their hair.

@nolanwinter5401

7 жыл бұрын

KatherineMacChesney Huh? I see a beautiful woman in this commercial.

@lso_meechie

7 жыл бұрын

true that true

This was back when there were dark-skinned black women on television.

@deewilson3239

10 ай бұрын

And they were beautiful ..

@Lovelyaribb

5 ай бұрын

It’s not really the world fault- everyone is mixed honestly and more mixed ppl are in ads for that reason

This was the black is beautiful era.

That's is one good looking sister. Very attractive.

Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud! Go on, girl!

Why can't we have this anymore? I had an afro just like this girl and I went to school with it. When I sat down next to a group of black men. they called my a dark african and made fun of me for looking "too african". The afro used to be a symbol of black pride and power, nowadays we have all these black men only praising mix race natural hair and making fun of girls with afro textured hair. Why does everyone want their hair curly?

@lastdays3148

6 жыл бұрын

I am in my 40s it is the opposite for me some of the Melanin women give me funny stares,well the ones wearing that Lace Wig stuff. The Melanin men loves it and the Caucasian people is always in awe of my Fro saying I favor Pam Grier with the FRO.

@chrigael5911

4 жыл бұрын

Some blk men are just too dam! STUPID! don't study them girl! Wear YOUR HAIR! To hell with them! Be true to yourself! Keep it up girl!😊

@KittyGrinder

4 жыл бұрын

Because of European conditioning

@karlar8648

4 жыл бұрын

You can. Wear it with confidence. Pride. Respect. I was a teen when this commercial aired. I went from natural to relxed now back to natural forever. And do not care what others think.

@moriahs2338

4 жыл бұрын

Self hatred has deeply been rooted into black consciousness because of colonization and slavery. Don't care what they say be proud of being black. Women here in DC wear afros all the time and men wear dreads, some people are more conscious than others .

I absolutely LOVE the makeup on the woman in this video. This is what makeup on a darkskin woman is SUPPOSED to look like. You hear that makeup industry?

@veronicahaney6005

9 ай бұрын

not all the fake shit on the face we see today that makes you look like a drag queen

We need to go back to that era where we embrace our nature beauty

@NorthPhilly-zr7xc

4 жыл бұрын

Sad to say the only way that's gonna happen is of we get a chain around neck against slavery is what kept us close as as a people as sad imas it is

@cecevanfran9836

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! Black women let’s embrace our crown 👑 our 4c hair Afro! 👑👑👑🎉this is our natural beauty!

@thesilman

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely true 👍

Today's natural hair movement is so messed up on so many different levels. It didn't start out that way either. I have nothing against representing all hair types, but the hair on this woman's head is the symbol of black pride and dignity. And like someone said below already, it wasn't about "making your curls pop". Your hair doesn't have to have a curl or coil pattern for it to be beautiful and if we're going to be honest with ourselves, the looser your curl is, the closer it resembles the European standard of beauty. It's a fact. The natural hair movement was intended for those of us with woolly hair to break away from that standard and create our own again, then everyone started to jump on the bandwagon, which would've been fine if we were all represented equally. When you look at natural hair commercials today, you won't find this at all. A woman might be wearing an "afro" but her hair won't be afro-textured (woolly). It's a shame.

@sexychocolategoddess2821

8 жыл бұрын

you are so right. I can find thousands of twist out and flexy rod tutorials but no tutorials on how to achieve a TRUE afro

@timemachine5641

8 жыл бұрын

+Kendreya Howell O they're out there alright, they just don't get as many views as other natural hair videos smh. I twist or braid my hair at night and the next day I try to get a fro like this one. Mine looks good but it's not the exact look I'm going for. I wish someone would make a video on how to do it like this. I won't be satisfied until my afro looks as good as Jermaine Jackson's did in 1972 lol.

@blackmoney0123

8 жыл бұрын

They don't hear you! !!!

@getaq6508

7 жыл бұрын

time machine I agree 💯% with you. I wish someone would share the secret to getting a Jackson 5 afro. The Jackson 5 and Pam Grier had the best afros in the 70s.

@timemachine5641

7 жыл бұрын

Get A Q And the Sylvers!

"Beautiful products for a beautiful people." Awww ♥️

I wish we had a commercial like this now. Black women need to see that our natural hair is beautiful.

YESSSS SHE IS BLACK ESSENCE....LOVE IT! I WEAR MY AFRO PROUD. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE USE AFRO SHEEN!!✊

Such a beautiful sister!

Watching things like this being pulled out of the archives is both heartwarming, yet devastating for me. To see what our community has been reduced to is sickening. These tapes provide more insight on why so many of us are out of touch with the reality of where we are TODAY... We are an amazing, magnificent people but the culture today is absolutely NOT ok. 😢Not sure why no one seems to want to admit it.

As a lil'girl I grew up with this commercial. It would air every Saturday morning before and during "Soul Train." This is what was EMBEDDED in me. Yet the new millenniums say I'm stuck in the 70's smh. So glad I've always known me & my hair was beautiful and was fortunate to not be a victim of hair crack & a eurocentric mindset.

The playlist found me and now i've found her

@rolandinhogolgolgol

Ай бұрын

now i found you

I can remember so vividly using those products as a kid back in the 70's...I loved all of the products being displayed in this video. but most of all I loved the Afro Sheen hairspray. the scent of it reminded me of a bowl of tropical fruit!

@JJoh4040

8 жыл бұрын

where do they sell it now

@lastdays3148

6 жыл бұрын

Sadly Afro Sheen is not in demand anymore too many people want that twist out look or the silky longer fake extensions. Personally I need those products for my Afro,but I cannot find any Afro Sheen products that were made in the 1970s.

@Galidorquest

3 жыл бұрын

@JJoh4040 Go to ebay, you can find literally almost anything on there. Then type the words "afro sheen hairspray" and you'll find all the necessities. I'm still learning, but apparently, all that's needed is a long blast of some aerosol hair-freezing spray like what the barbers use, and some S-Curl liquid to run through your scalp before you pick out your hair. Also, patting down the afro with the back of a hairbrush really helps round it out, for that Al Jarreau/George Benson look.

@lonfromdadiaspora

Жыл бұрын

@@lastdays3148 Walmart sells it

@ecgoudeau

9 ай бұрын

I LOVED the Cherry/Coconut smell of it leaving the chair of my kitchen stylist… shaking my hair all the way to my Mommas van, going home to do homework. Afrosheen had me feeling like a superstar at 8years old ❤❤❤

I wanna try this she's gorgeous

@blackmoney0123

8 жыл бұрын

and you should sister black is beautiful

That afro is FIERCE.

This was when we had more pride in being black. In today's world, we have lost our direction, respect and dignity. As a black woman, I say our race has headed into downward slope that we may never recover from.

@MissKizzy75

2 жыл бұрын

Ten years after your comment...unfortunately you are right :(

@PrincessAfrica3

Жыл бұрын

You’re right…but Jesus Christ is the answer

@-s-3508

Жыл бұрын

​@@PrincessAfrica3 yes the descendants and nations of ISRAEL needs to wake up!🤎🫰🏾

@keddrickW68

9 ай бұрын

Oh we will recover in due time...the Most High has to first put the enemy and his people back at the bottom where they belong and as we repent...We can rise back on top where we naturally belong.

this almost made me cry because in 2015, 90% of black people are completely mentally enslaved, cannot be respected. A people who hate themselves will NEVER be respected. Hey, black people, stop talking about justice. Clean your backyard first: start by praising your women and protecting their honor. Bring back the REAL men and women who loved and worshiped one another and valued art, intelligence, creativity, actual musical talent, etc. This is tough love, please don't turn your ears away. We need to do better and get back to this.

@MartyredxMaiden

8 жыл бұрын

jaroncreed you can read, my friend.

@MartyredxMaiden

8 жыл бұрын

jaroncreed i'm not white bro. my DNA is mostly African

@jaroncreed

8 жыл бұрын

*****

@bebopmom

8 жыл бұрын

+Zorgoon Trollstones I cry too when I see this. What has happened?

@dre9086

8 жыл бұрын

+Zorgoon Trollstones AGREED!

Crooklyn brought me here

@nyjahfanatic

8 жыл бұрын

+jakaria burnstine same

@PrincessofPower84

8 жыл бұрын

Yup. I'm watching it right now.

@chevelle921

8 жыл бұрын

Me too

@thedropoutbear4606

8 жыл бұрын

SAME!!! I love that movie.

@mizzypink8

8 жыл бұрын

Same! Favorite movie in the world "beautiful people wear Afro sheen." :)

We had so much pride in ourselves from the way our skin to looked to the way our hair grew.

We'd never see anything like this today. Pharrell, take a look at THIS!

I DEFINITELY remember this commercial! It was the one that inspired me to wear my Afro proudly and not be ashamed of being beautifully royal.

"Beautiful products for a beautiful people" I felt that in my soul...YESSS!! #blackisbeautiful ❤️🖤💚

IM 23 4RM SOUTH CENTRAL LA AND I NEVA SEEN SUCH AN EMPOWERING BLACC COMERCIAL 4DA SISTAS N MA ENTIRE LIFE!!!! BLACC EXCELLENCE YALL

@lastdays3148

6 жыл бұрын

Teri,oh wow I remember having a Melanin Doctor as a little girl in the 1970s. Doctor Scott was his name and I believed that he made house calls too for minor health problems. I also remember the Melanin Banks and Grocery Stores in the communities. You are so right about our Healthy lifestyle during that time. My parents had a Garden and we barely ate junk Fast Foods. I am going to be 50 years younger this year and I am still slim,because I watch what I eat and I workout. I missed that time too the love for one another and the family unity togetherness the we had. You are correct,it does seems like we are unrecognizable and going instinct. How unpleasantly sad.

@babyshamusworld

3 жыл бұрын

If you havent had the chance please watch the movie Crooklyn by Spike Lee its a whole black experience❤

Beautiful black woman with beautiful natural hair. 💁🏿👸🏿👏🏿✊🏿

How did we go from having so much pride in our natural hair in thd 70s to torturing our scalp for almost 30years following with jherri curls relaxers and weaves smh. Well thank God the natural hair movement is back and hopefull here to stay.

@therain1189

6 жыл бұрын

You're one to talk...

@honeybee1226

6 жыл бұрын

Anjel Sicard I'm natural dumbass

@LoveAfterPookie

Жыл бұрын

Came from the future and well... the natural hair movement failed miserably. All it achieved was further making bw feel like their hair needs to be "changed". From the wash and goes, the twist outs, the baby hairs to the slick back ponytails that need a whole bucket of gel; the movement does everything to change what natural hair really looks like to make it "fall" or appear "looser".

@-s-3508

Жыл бұрын

​​@@LoveAfterPookie I noticed that too

@kalebnbrown

9 ай бұрын

Those hair straightening chemicals are cancerous.

Afro Sheen Is Still The One For Beautiful Black Chocolate People.

i grew up in the1960s and 70s. yep, my afro waa just as big as hers. yep, i used afro sheen. those were the days.

She's so pretty

Wow!! What a beauty!

I wanna see this today so baaaaad

@korick28

6 жыл бұрын

serenity6831 I’m very to see this. The commercials were almost as good as the show

@lastdays3148

6 жыл бұрын

I am wearing an Afro yes the round Afro of the 1970s. I get compliments from so many people,saying I looked like I step right out of the 1970s. Right into the 21st.Century.

@korick28

6 жыл бұрын

Last Days Right on for the darkness... besides the coolest commercials, I loved seeing Curtis Mayfield on the show. 💜☮️🚂💃🏽 Plus I still have an Afro pick... ?tlove kinda made it trendy though

@lastdays3148

6 жыл бұрын

Mary MayB. Right on Sister and I still have the Afro Pick of the 1970s. The one with the Melanin Fist on the handle.

This lady is absolutely beautiful. I never see beautiful black ladies like this anymore.

I LOVE THE 70s

That woman is GORGEOUS for no reason... amazing...

YES! I grew my first fro at 17 years old and it was FIERCE 4 years later. I relaxed it due to a change of environment... Now at 30 I am 19 months into my next afro and I feel tremendous pressure on the internet and in the beauty supply stores to "define" my curls. Which basically means to loosen them to look less BLACK. I am happy with the natural movement that is happening right now, but this "curl definition" propaganda has got to go. Moisturize it, pick it, and pat it down. SIMPLE.

she is beautiful the 70s is best era i love my blackness✊🍫💯👑

This woman, I don't know who she is, is what you call stunningly beautiful. The LORD created us in HIS image and likeness. WE are ALL beautiful because WE are HIS creation. Black will ALWAYS be beautiful. The deep complexion, full lips, wide nose, piercing mahogany eyes ... The LORD doesn't create anything ugly. Know that.

She has the perfect afro.

Back when black music was worth listening to and enjoyed by the masses (Ohio Players, Parliament, Heatwave, Funkadelic, Donna Summer, The Trammps, Lipps, Gap Band, Bar Kays, Earth Wind & Fire, Commodores).

@darryl2557

4 жыл бұрын

💯

@kcmaldonado3948

10 ай бұрын

You needed talent to be in the music industry.

this reminds me of how when I was aboit 6-7years old, I was obsessed with disco fashion and my biggest dream at the time was to become a beautiful black woman with a giant afro. I would tease my hair to give it volume but was always disappointed. I was truly heartbroken when I realized I was in fact not black and did not have curly hair

Man, I remember so many of these! They always aired them during "Soul Train."

@zariahnyree

Жыл бұрын

Hi mom! 😁♎️

@tremekawilson9238

8 ай бұрын

That beautiful woman is non other than Roxie Roker

This commercial is everything!!

Make America GREAT again black folks!

Awwwww the 70s!

Crooklyn! 💜👑👏🏾

she's soo gorgeous!! naturally beautiful!

I love this fro positive ad and I especially love the end. Rather than "beautiful products for beautiful people", it's "for a beautiful people". Volumes

crooklyn bought me back twice! love her afro!

Nowadays this beautiful woman would be replaced with a biracial or multiracial woman like Halle Berry. I am more concerned about this fact. At least relaxers can be grown out and the natural curls can return.

@LifeIsNotorious

6 жыл бұрын

ubiquitousfacts Don't hate on Halle. She's a beautiful black/biracial woman.

@thebestchannel5456

6 жыл бұрын

LifeIsNotorious yeah Halle is a beautiful Black woman

@Hendrixchick2023

6 жыл бұрын

*mixed. she aint black

@kushinaa1XD

6 жыл бұрын

Hendrixchick exactly.

@kenno5180

6 жыл бұрын

LifeIsNotorious no one is hating we're they just stating facts

Her afro is poppin, and that's a fact💝💖💕❤💞👀😍💝💗

Sooooo Jealous!!!!!! Growing up in the 1970's must have been nice

I love being black =) we are beautiful !!!

SHE IS JUST BEAUTIFUL! :) LOVING the HAIR !! I WANT mines to be as big as hers..

She's a beautiful looking queen 👑👑👑👑👑👑👑

Y’all need to bring these products back to the market asap!

OMGoodness. If 90% of black women TODAY would embrace their natural hair as this women in this clip, let's have a real celebration.

oh man, I used to wait for Soul Train just to see this commercial. I thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever laid eyes on.

I need to send this to Tommy Sotomayor lol

@Shortlady82

5 жыл бұрын

Alpha Omega he would love this commercial

@NorthPhilly-zr7xc

4 жыл бұрын

@@Shortlady82 who is tommy sotomayor

i like his voice.

i love hearing the late Sid McCoy doing the male voice narration.

Naturally Beautiful! Love this Ad!

@Footsniffer51 I DO believe the black race is heading in a negative direction. I feel this way because of several reasons. 1. Too many black children are being raised in a single parent household. 2. Too many fathers have abandoned their children. 3. Our music degrades the black woman by calling her "Bitch", "Whore" and also present her strictly as a sexual object, and 4. The rise of HIV infection being the HIGHEST among black women! I work in Family Court and I see all of these things.

Beautiful products for a beautiful people! That part!!! 😍😍😍

Crooklyn brought me here lol

Thank God that I was born a Black Woman. “AH HA! I GOT MELANIN”!

@inaday07

Жыл бұрын

Who is she?

those them old school commercials

i wanna pick out my twa now :') i wish they would put commercials like this on tv

We need, this back love of oneself an, love an respect for your man

YES! I loved that!

That's pretty please bring afro sheen back.

Beautiful!!! I love it! Beautiful!

She is gorgeous!

Riparadise Don Cornelius And Thanc You 4 Creatin Soul Train Which These And Many Other Blacc Comercials Broadcasted Between Airtimes ;)

A Royal Feast For Your Hair!!!

This was a very quiet and calm commercial. :)

TODAYS BEAUTIFUL QUEEN USES AFRO SHEEN !! QUOTABLE !!

I wasn't even born in the 70's, but I remember this! How did they get their fros so ROUND? Did they cut them into shape?

@maryhaward7022

4 жыл бұрын

I think so! I struggle to get it like that

@thepowerofthegodhand7003

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think so too. My fro only looks this perfect after a cut. But it could be your curl pattern as well.

@Galidorquest

3 жыл бұрын

I'm still learning, but I guess you just have to buy & use A LOT of aerosol hair-freeze spray like the barbers do. Also, rubbing some S-Curl liquid spray through your scalp before picking out your afro helps give it shape. So basically, heavy-use of different hairsprays is the key, just like with dripping-wet Jheri Curls in the 80's. And the hairsprays is what gives the afros its sheen, like after a barber gives you a shape-up. Patting down the afro with the back of a hairbrush also helps give it that round shape for that Al Jarreau/George Benson look.

What a beauriful girl! ❤

What a beautiful woman!!!!

Got damn it, what happened?

What a lovely model!

Everytime I see the meme I'm reminded of this

This is so beautiful

Some black woman will say that their hair isn't important in the over all struggle for black liberation. But black self love is necessary for black liberation. And for many black woman hair often represents a major issue of self hate for black woman. The excessive praise and glorification of woman outside her race. Sometimes It even puts black woman in competition with other black woman. How can black woman be on any pro black team if she hates her true African hair to much to wear it just one week out of a year. And of course everything has a spiritual side to it. There is a certain energy about any and everything in the universe. Strait euro hair has an energy and African bushy hair has it's energy. Think of all the black woman going around with strait hair on their heads. They are pulling and projecting a non African energy.

@acosiak6191

2 жыл бұрын

Valid Points

You don't see Black women on Ads nowadays. Well I guess you see mixed.

That is a damn nice afro...

Just Beautiful ✊💜

Beautiful sista

She was beautiful,wow

Who is this lady? Someone help me?😻

I need myself some Afro Sheen...Damn!

She is beautiful.😍💅.

GORGEOUS!!

This is beautiful

I want that fro!

she is gorgeous

So beautiful