https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGrasobHcKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=961x0NmyHKE
According to https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/com..., "Soul glo" is the more common term now:
> “The term should be ‘Jheri curl,’” Coming to America scholar Questlove tells Rolling Stone. “But everyone says ‘Soul Glo.’”
That's one mighty education focus. I mean I know the guy from his bits and music in SNL and other shows, and I saw the movie couple of times. But never expected those words joined together in such meaning, here on HN.
People tend to imprint on the in style of their 20s & early 30s and anchor on it for the rest of their life. For example, it's why all of a sudden Gen X men seem to be wearing oddly fashionably cut jeans.
Pair that with dad bodies/pot bellies —Holy Moley!
One exception to this is I don’t see older women wearing “backpack” purses.
Never fight a man with a perm.
What’s striking is how the jheri curl’s popularity revealed a hunger for accessible, transformative styles and brought a wave of entrepreneurship among Black women in beauty salons.
It’s a powerful reminder that innovation often happens when cultural expression meets commerce, particularly when someone sees a need in their community and meets it head-on.
The way it spread through local salons and word of mouth says a lot too. It wasn’t some huge ad campaign pushing it, it was people telling each other, trying it out, showing up proud.
Much more baaaaiaiounce!
exiguus•7h ago