Like any other young girl growing up in today's time you know that any beauty question or tip you may have or need, YOUTUBE is the best place to get that instant answer! I personally am obsessed with watching hair and make up tutorials. I could sit on YouTube all day with a cup of tea and be completely satisfied with my day! haha. But if this is also you I got a chance to ask an coming beauty Youtuber T'Keyah Bennett some questions on the background of her YouTube page, SO ADD HER TO YOUR LIST OF YOUTUBERS. I've been following her for quite sometime and she not only give great tips on Natural hair care #Lazynatural & Fashion but she has also given great advice on how you too can start your own YouTube page and get success. I loved that she displayed that and with her recent success on her YouTube page getting 1 Million VIEWS, I had to go ahead and ask her some questions! I feel its so important to support those in your community who are helping everyone progress and give them the recognition they deserve. She is all about empowering women of color and I absolutely love it! Check out what she had to say! Below is her "Go-To Braid out video!
1. How old are you?
-I
am 22 years old
2.What
inspired you to create your YouTube channel?
-I got my last
relaxer in 2011 for my high school graduation. My hair was so thin
and damaged from the chemicals and I had almost no waves/curls left
in my head. I could remember having beautiful curly hair as a kid and
I desperately wanted that back.No
one in my family knew how to properly care for natural hair, so being
the self sufficient individual that I am I googled it lol. Videos on
top of videos popped up along with some natural hair blogs so that's
where my love of YouTube started. After I nursed my hair back to
health it got so much thicker and I decided I wanted to share my
#lazynatural tips with anyone who wanted to go natural. For me it is
so important to love what I was born with. I wanted to set an example
for younger girls who had never seen their natural hair because their
parents thought it would be less of a hassle to relax it.
3.Who
are your fashion and hair inspirations?
-Kanye West hands down! I
also love Ugo Mozie.For
hair I love Whitney White, her YouTube channel Naptural85 helped me
so much when I was going natural.
4.What
are some of the goals you have for your blog?
-My
next short term goal is to get to 50K subscribers on my YouTube
channel, but my ultimate goal is to use my platform to enlighten,
inspire and motivate young women (especially young women of color) to
LOVE themselves unconditionally.We
live in this superficial world where we're taught that in order to be
happy and successful as a woman you have to be sexy and almost look
perfect with flawless skin (tons of makeup) and flawless hair
(weaves). Social media is killing our self esteems and it's going to
have a greater effect on the upcoming generations.I
have nothing against makeup or weave unless women are using it to
hide themselves. If you aren't happy with yourself when all of that
comes off at the end of the night then there's a huge problem.
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