answer:That was an awesome movie. As someone who started bleaching and coloring my hair funky colours at 12 years old, I feel like it would be a bit hypocritical for me to say any younger than 12. I also let my kids, who are younger than that, do what they want with their own hair in the summer. Perms might run in a different vein, though. Bleach is pretty hardcore, but perm chemicals are harsher and there is potential for serious injury there. I had to drop out of beauty school as a teenager (yeah, yeah… make all of the Grease jokes you want) because of a severe allergic reaction to perm chemicals… that stuff is no joke. I think that it goes far beyond “ignorance” or “laziness,” I think there are a lot of cultural issues, which I seem to remember being discussed in the documentary. Personally, I think that ignorance comes into play more often when you have a non-black parent that is in charge of styling the child’s hair, specifically if that child is a girl. As for the cultural issues, I think a lot of it is media driven, much like any other beauty trend. One of the things that I learned in beauty school, while I was still attending, was that the big money is in ethnic hair care. It’s a profitable market, and anyone in the business is going to do everything they can to influence the public that this is what makes a person beautiful. Whether or not that is true.