94. Bad Hair

Sometimes you gotta be a Risky Bitch! Dead End Jobs Month rolls into #BlackWeek, and this week we’re clocking in at CULTURE, where it’s 1989 Los Angeles, the music is hot, the ambition is hotter, and apparently success comes with one very specific dress code: Girl…what are we doing with that hair? In Bad Hair (2020), our girl QUEEN is talented, broke, freshly heartbroken and trying to survive the mean streets of the entertainment industry, where having a great idea is nice — but having the “right” look might get you through the door faster. Enter the hottest new weave in LA. And baby, this is not a low-maintenance relationship. This hair needs attention. This hair has EXPECTATIONS. This hair said, “You wanted success? Cool. Feed me.” As Queen starts climbing the ladder, Bad Hair digs into fame, beauty standards, assimilation, workplace politics and what happens when becoming “marketable” starts costing a little too damn much. In this one we get: 💇🏾‍♀️ Natural hair in late-’80s LA apparently being treated like an act of rebellion. 📺 Black entertainment TV, office politics and everybody fighting for their shot. 👑 Vanessa Williams serving Beauty Queen Boss excellence. 💰 A serious thirst for fame, money and success. 🪞 A reminder that changing your hair doesn’t automatically change how you feel about yourself. 😬 And a weave with more needs than a full-time boyfriend. At its heart, Bad Hair is about learning to love yourself in an industry constantly telling you who you need to become. Because sometimes the glow-up isn’t the new hair. Sometimes the glow-up is realizing you were already the shit before they told you otherwise. So grease your scalp, protect your edges and remember: do YOU. Just don’t sell your soul — or your scalp — trying to make somebody else comfortable. 🎧 Ghost Ninja Raccoon — Dead End Jobs Month: Black Week 🎬 Bad Hair (2020) ⭐ GNR Rating: 4/5 Next up: #SequelWeek — because apparently 3 terrible workplace experiences are not enough. Music By: DJ B. Foreman Produced by K. Booker #BadHair #HorrorComedy #BlackHorror #BlackWomenInHorror #HorrorPodcast #BlackHorrorMovies #JustinSimien #VanessaWilliams #LenaWaithe #ElleLorraine #HorrorMovies #MoviePodcast #HorrorFans #GhostNinjaRaccoon #DeadEndJobs