I Went To One Of The First Natural Hair Salons In The Dominican Republic
I Went To One Of The First Natural Hair Salons In The Dominican Republic
Julissa meets Miss Rizos, aka Carolina Contreras, owner of one of the first salons in the Dominican Republic dedicated to natural hair! #yoamomipajon
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Meet the Team:
Claudia Restrepo
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Curly Velasquez
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Gadiel De Orbe
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Maya Murillo
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Julissa Calderon
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Special thanks to Carolina Contreras and all the stylists at Miss Rizon Salon!
https://www.instagram.com/missrizossalon/
I mean I’m Dominican (like 100%) but my hair is naturally straight and that makes me mad most of the time
I live in Santo Domingo 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴 love youuuuuuuuu♥️
Julissa o Pero Like, Que lindo que estén apoyando a negocios como este en R.D. Muy bien logrado. —- Pero seria injusto si no les pongo este comentario: Soy Dominicana. Nací, creci, estudie, trabaje allá. Vine a los EU en 2001. Mi cabello-experiencia ha sido la siguiente. Cuando me quise cortar el cabello, me lo corte. Cuando me lo deje largo, un muchacho en el salon, me enseñó a hacerme un pajon a lo DEVACURL.Con difusor y todo. Eso fue a principios de los 90’s. Este me hizo highlights. Para el look. Yo iba al trabajo (como Diseñadora) en bicicleta (con el casco y todo) y me voceaban…que pajon massss lindo. YO?…FELIZ. Me llegaron a decir en un semáforo que le regalara un bucle para ponerlo en el carro (público). Yo tengo una combinación de 3a/b y c en la coronilla como una sombrillita (para fines de banca y pool). Mis heroinas de cabello eran Lolita Flores, Amanda Miguel y muchas mas. Cabello suelto y pajon. He hecho lo que me da mi gana con mi cabello. Es mas, en los 70’s y porque vivía en una piscina, puse a mi mama loca y le pedi que me hicieran un afro, tenia una amiguita que tenia uno y YO quería uno. Yo fascinada. No me duro porque tengo el cabello de hebra fina. Pero lo viví. Yo hago lo que me da mi gana en mi país con mis cabellos. Y creo que por eso nunca senti ese prejuicio, mas bien admiracion. Tengo muchas amigas que andaban con pajon, afro, peladas tambien. En el colegio me decía uno que parecía una leona. Y eso que habían otras mas con el pajon mas grande. Tal vez, era mi generación, los 70-80. No sé. El otro día vi mi cédula de antaño y los rizos son espectaculares. Cuando llegue aquí a los EU, empece a pasarme el blower, pues me encontré con gente que me encontraron muy agresiva. Y al pasarme mi blower pues, ya que doy cuenta que USA no estaba “ready” para esos cambios. [I was wayyy ahead of my time]. Mira ahora cuantos YouTube y tutorials y demás pendejadas y yo muerta de la risa, porque todo eso lo hice yo hace mas de 20 años. Los productos son mejores ahora, eso si. Lo que quiero decir es esto, esa fue mi experiencia. En mi pais. NO todo es malo allá. Ni lo fue. También existen las areas grises. Si habían salones haciendo rizos con difusores a la DEVACURL. No todo el mundo se pasa alisado si tiene el cabello rizo. No todo el mundo es acomplejado. No todos niegan sus raíces. Claaaro, hay de todo, pero por Dios. Ni que eso fuera la excepción del comportamiento humano!! Igualito que aquí en Estados Unidos. Igualito. Y para terminar ——> Yo vi muchos afros en mi vida en mi pais. Muuuuuchos. En hombres y mujeres. Un tip: LOS KENTON. Ayyy mi madre. Jajajaja Para los que nacieron en NY y se perdieron de los 70-80’s uffff que tiempos. :::shrugs::::
I loved this!!! Women empowering women 🙂 <3.
First "curly" hair salon? Would that be the same as first black/African decent salon?
I’m Ecuadorian but my bf is Dominican, it makes me sad to hear people from an older generation say people with curly hair is “Pelo Malo”. I honestly think curly hair is beautiful!
If I do have a daughter or daughters with my bf and they are born with curly hair, I want them to embrace them.
One of the best interviews!
La Zona Colonial es muy lindo pa ver en persona ❤️❤️. Fui pa mi primera vez dos Easter’s atrás 😍😍
Miss. Curls! Shapopping!
This is so awesome!!!!
That is Queen shit!!!
As soon as Julissa started getting choked up, I had to hold back those happy tears. I would love to go to DR to support this amazing salon.
0:55 I was sleeping in that hotel
I WAS LITTLE I don’t remember
You guys should go to my house. We start the Viagra sauce and other people started make it too.
I was the first of all my friends and family to stop chemically straightening my hair, and two years in I went to Carolina when miss rizos was barely opening to get braids done, I arrived at 9 am left at 6 pm, absolutely loved the experience and I’ve been recommending them ever since, it’s not a Salon, it’s a family.
Wish I knew how to speak fluent Spanish
This was so wonderful!
Omg I need this in miami. All my life hating my hair, wasting a lot of money on keratina but never happy with the result. So I abandoned my hair and I look like a hobo literally because and tired to try to look straight. All my life my mother and grandmother straight their hair so I grow up thinking that my pajon es feo todavia la gente me dice que se ve feo , but if something like this near a professional telling me how to take care my hair like really is ,I will be more happier. My roots are Dominican hasta la tambora.
I connected to this so much. When I went natural five years ago, I big chopped and it was very scary and vulnerable, and I had to confront all those feelings too. It’s so cool to have a salon for naturals!!!!!
I wish I had known about this shop when I lived in Boca Chica! I used to walk around looking crazy! LOL I love what you are doing Julissa. Thank you for introducing us to Carolina. Carolina thank you for remembering we women who love our hair, curls and all. Thank you
I love this. Julissa is so passionate and I know she will accomplish her dreams too.
okey you made me cry!!!! me hiciste llorar corazon, me hice el big shop hace 5 años, me ha crecido el pelo muchísimo y me siento tan bien!!! es lo que soy, greñua doesnt mean you cannot be beautiful AAAAAMO MI PAJON DIOS MIO!!! LO AMO!!!!! gracias a Pero like, lo llevo en el alma y los quiero mucho. Que Dios me los siga bendiciendo!!! Es un largo camino hacia la tolerancia, lamentablemente ese paisito nuestro tiene una pequeña (o grande???) tendencia al racismo… pero nado, one mind at a time… lo lograremos. MILLONES DE BESOS
i NEED to go there next time i visit DR! i never thought i would find a place dedicated to help women love their hair that way, specially curly hair since i’ve always been pushed to have my hair straight.
I would love to visit there one day
Ugh the beginning brings me back to when I was in El Salvador this summer! 🇸🇻 ugh my Spanish is rusty, but the people are so accepting. I LOVE LATINO/ HISPANIC CULTURE
Thank for doing the video, I am from states and love this so much. I also love the Dominican hair care line, can you tell me why it so hard to find Dominican republic material data sheet (SDS) (MSDS sheets of the silicon mix treatment and Crece Pelo and other. If you can share the website where to download the companies are not responding. I subscribed so hopefully you can talk about that.
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Awww Julissa, I felt that! 💕💕. Estoy loca por ir a ese salón
Yasssss, it is at la Zona Colonial. I have a place to do hair now when I go back to the DR
I hope she opens up a shop in NYC. We need one badly.
LOVED this!
6:17 gurl I cried too😩😩 VIVA LATINOAMERICAAAAA🌋💃🏽🌺
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I started crying when the interviewer started crying. It makes me sooooo happy to see black women waking up much love!
i went to this salon while i was in dominican republic and it was such a great experience
This is HUGE!! Wow
Such a touching story💗
Wow😭😍
I went to that salon . And I am from the DR
Proud to be Afro latina 🇩🇴
Thank U. Women of color around the world embrace Ur roots and natural hair. So proud of you!
I wish I was Dominican 😂😂
This is beautiful girls
My mom interviewed Carolina and put it on tv and I met her so it’s CRAZY that yulisa is meeting her.
Well mom said that it happened
In this salon I started my curly hair journey in May of 2017 (I have a video on my channel about it), unfortunately at the moment my self-esteem was on the floor and I didn’t want to cut my hair, so I started my "transition" process, one month goes by and I got the impulse to go to a salon and just cut my hair, I didn’t go to Miss Rizos and went to another famous curly hair salon in DR and the lady that cut my hair was JUST learning how to do it, so basically i was left bald lol Cutting my hair taught me so much about myself and about self-acceptance. I love what this salon is promoting in my country and I feel proud that every day more people in my very judgeamental country are coming to their senses that the hair that comes out of our head is perfect just the way it is.
Casi un millón¡!¡!!¡¡¡¡!¡!¡¡
Finally ! a dominican that think like me every time I tell anyone I like they hair just natural they look at me like i’m crazy {tenemos el colonialismo muy arraigado aún }but, I see we are changing .
tell me why I cried when Julissa cried?! I feel it! I have curly hair and recently moved 2mos ago. did not know this place existed and I’m soooo excited! will visit soon. Thank you, Carolina, for the amazing things you are doing for Dominican curls! see you soon.
I’m so motivated. Many tell me to not even think about having a life in DR. But this is a prime example that it’s possible. She represents what I aspire to be. I too made that transition from having my hair straightened and relaxed to going completely natural. It’s been 6 years now and I don’t regret it. I’m so proud to see a fellow Dominican woman be successful and be an activist of change and progress for the culture. Loved this and thank you Julissa for sharing ❤❤❤🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴