Good Hair by Chris Rock

I've decided I want to make a book about hair, so I've been doing some research into different salon industries.

I'm struggling to find the whole documentary but I have been watching clips of Chris Rock's 'Good Hair', it's about the relationship black women (and men - Prince and MJ for example) have with their natural hair and how some go about trying to get """good""" hair. The most shocking part I've watched is about relaxers - I had no idea how dangerous the chemicals in it are! 

I think it's super important for me to not be preachy about black hair - because really, who am I to make comments on it? I'm not black, ergo I have no idea what it's like to have black hair! As a mixed race person I understand how Western beauty standards can manipulate your self-esteem for profit, in South and East Asian communities colourism is regularly exploited to sell skin bleaching products, but even so it's definitely not for me to comment on the black hair salon industry in my work.

This documentary has prompted me to think about whether I want to put any political or social message across in my work. The beauty industry is huge and ultimately it relies on the insecurity of women, if I ignore that and just make a pretty picture book about how having your haircut is nice and good am I somehow complicit? (That's really an overreaction but it's something to think about.)