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[upbeat music] - [Stage Manager] Stage right.

Places everyone.

[smooth music] [smooth music continues] [upbeat club music] [audience laughing] - Ooh, and I watch hair videos for hours.

- On YouTube?

- Where else would I watch it?

- Why do you watch YouTube?

- Because I do.

- Well, what you gonna do with it?

- Grow it.

- What are your products?

- I'm good on the advice today.

- No, no, no, no, no, girl, girl.

I'm just saying.

Have you used SheaMoisture's - [Both] Jamaican black castor oil masks?

- Yeah, I've used it.

[audience laughing] - It's nice, right?

- Yes, Kiana.

- Okay.

[audience laughing] I just have one more suggestion.

- Uh, Kiana, go ahead.

- I feel like you should stop wearing those wigs.

- It's a protective style.

- Right, but our hair needs to breathe.

- I do let it breathe.

- Well then how come every time I see you, you have a wig on?

- Because we're party friends.

We only hit each other up when we go to the club.

And when I go out dancing, I wear a wig because if I wear my natural hair, it's just gonna shrink up into a little puff on the dance floor.

- Girl, there is nothing wrong with that.

- It is if you have my hair, it shrinks and then it tangles and it makes wash days impossible.

I contemplate death.

[audience laughing] - Got it.

Use gel.

- It's not in my wash day budget.

- Girl, Eco Styler is what, $3?

- That's not the point, Kiana.

- Jamira, you talk about wanting to grow out your hair every time I see you, I swear.

How do you want me to respond?

Just ignore what you said or give you advice, because you always talk about how you want to grow your hair out like mine.

I mean, you said my hair texture was... - High porosity with a "S" curl, [audience laughing] but we don't have the same hair type.

Okay, what works for you won't work for me.

- How do you know that?

- YouTube!

[audience laughing] - Ooh, ooh, cover me.

- A wedgie?

- Nah, my vagina itches.

[audience laughing] - Stop shaving down there.

Let it breathe.

[audience laughing] - Stop wearing wigs.

- Are you finished scratching?

- Shut up.

- Are you?

I mean!

[audience laughing] - Wait.

Yeah.

[audience laughing] - Hair is meant to grow down there, you know?

- I know that.

- So why do you shave?

- Because my period is coming and I like it, you know, neat.

Makes it less messy.

- I wish my afro and bush could trade places.

[audience laughing] - Jamira.

- If only you knew.

- Ugh.

- Okay, I'm just trying to say, you know, I know I can grow a lot of hair.

I just want it to grow on my head.

- Take biotin.

- I took biotin, Kiana.

I broke out and grew chin hairs.

[audience laughing] - Well, how much were you taking?

- 10,000 mcgs.

- Who takes 10,000 mcgs?

- Me.

- Take like a hundred mcgs.

Don't do it every day.

Space it out, and drink a lot of water.

- Okay, again, didn't ask for advice.

- Well, fine.

[audience laughing] [club music] - It's like I grow hairs on my face naturally, but it's like the biotin made my hairs a little darker.

- Ugh, I have chin hairs too.

- Girl, your chin hairs are light.

- Well I dye them.

- Good for you!

- All right, talk about it, Jamira.

You been throwing shade all night.

- Okay, let's look at your track record tonight.

The finest man in the club who has the same skin tone as me has been eyeing you, but you keep bouncing around to all these other light skins and won't even give him the time of day.

- Nah, see, that's where you're wrong.

- Oh, oh.

- He came up to me while you were getting us water at the bar.

He whispers in my ear, "Hey, light skin."

I said, "I have a name."

He said, "Ah, here we go.

What's your name?"

I said, "Kiana."

[audience laughing] He said, "Well, [audience drowns out speaker] Kiana, and might I say, my name is Dante, and you the finest person up in here."

I said, "Oh, well me and my girl over there."

He said, "I'm only into light-skinned girls."

I said, "Well, bye," and walked away.

- But it's, it's bigger than that, Kiana.

Okay because we was on FaceTime two weeks ago and you said you wanted a biracial baby.

I mean, how am I supposed to feel about that?

- What is wrong with saying that?

- I mean, I'm not biracial.

You compliment my features all the time.

- I said I wanted a biracial baby because I thought it would be cool.

- Why?

[audience laughing] - Jamira, I like babies with different colored eyes.

I think they're cute.

- Oh, what, but there are children with my skin tone who have blue eyes.

But no, you said you wanted a biracial, white looking child with light eyes.

My point is, okay, you just, you don't date anyone who looks like me.

- I'm open to it.

- Open?

Oh, okay.

[audience laughing] - I just like the eyes.

- Oh, now that's why you be wearing those contacts.

That's where the colonizer got you good.

[audience laughing] [audience applauds] You don't like being Black.

- I love being Black.

- Umph.

- What, so you don't have preferences?

- Oh, oh no, I'm open to anyone.

Okay, I'm not searching for one kind of guy.

- Me neither.

- Uh huh.

No, see, see.

I brought it up because I noticed a pattern of how you move in these places when we go out together and I expect you to be better.

[audience laughing] - I'm sorry, Jamira.

- Uh huh.

And I'm just saying, you know, watch how you speak around me because you be, you be talking about and trying to give me advice and you don't have the place to.

Ugh.

This is exhausting.

We supposed to be having fun.

- I'm sorry.

- I don't even have the energy to be around you right now.

- I said I was sorry.

- I don't hate you.

- [sighs] Well, it must have been exhausting having to explain yourself to me.

- Uh huh.

I was like, you really struck a nerve tonight.

Because I was just like, I am not spending the next two hours watching her move like that.

I mean, with that guy, I mean.

But you know, now I know what happened, so.

No, that's real.

- Oh, oh, oh.

[audience laughing] [audience laughing] [Club Goer] Hey, hey, hey - You know this was supposed to be a free event.

- Before five, sis.

We were supposed to get here before five, not at five.

- Well, I'm only trying to see Trey Songz tonight.

That's why I paid this money.

If he don't show up for his appearance, I want my money back.

- Okay, you know that coat check got me tight?

$5 per item.

- Facts.

Man, we could have went to a Trey Songz concert for the $55 we paid.

- True, on that discount though.

[both laughing] - On that good, good discount.

- Okay.

- You know, was there any way that we could hang out, like outside of partying together?

- Naw.

[audience laughing] - Yeah, yeah, I get it, I mean, yeah.

We're party friends.

We met at a party.

- Ooh, ooh, Kiana.

Darrell is coming this way.

- Dante.

- Dante, Darrell, Damon, same thing.

- What do we do?

- Ooh, we should conjure the ancestors.

Ooh, close your eyes.

- Wait, wait, wait, he almost right here.

- Ooh, the ancestors would tell us to tell him off.

But in like a classy way.

- For the ancestors.

- Yeah, the ancestors who support us.

- Oh, I got the energy for this.

[audience laughing] - He don't even look that fine in this lighting.

- Oh he don't.

- Damn, he look better with the strobe lights on.

- I know.

- Oh, excuse me, excuse me, Dante.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, you really got some nerves.

Oh, I know I look just like your mama.

[audience laughing] [audience cheering]