Girl sells hair for £3000, buys family a new house now has dream life

[Othala]

I have just watched a Brazilian video about this girl on YouTube which shows the following:

~ She has a small but very nice bedroom
~ She has a computer
~ Her mother combs her hair with a wide tooth comb
~ Her hair is blow-dried and then braided
~ She does not seem to like the attention
~ Her friends are shown fiddling with her hair (grrr)

It looks like she lives in a lower middle class area, not a poor deprived area, but I have no idea about social standards in Brazil.

This video also shows another woman with very long hair. There is no hair-cutting in the video but both the girl and the woman are taken to a wig shop and it looks like their hair is being evaluated for quality.

If you want to watch the video, here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Gdj...eature=related

[PolarCathy]

I have just watched a Brazilian video about this girl on YouTube which shows the following:

~ She has a small but very nice bedroom
~ She has a computer
~ Her mother combs her hair with a wide tooth comb
~ Her hair is blow-dried and then braided
~ She does not seem to like the attention
~ Her friends are shown fiddling with her hair (grrr)

It looks like she lives in a lower middle class area, not a poor deprived area, but I have no idea about social standards in Brazil.

This video also shows another woman with very long hair. There is no hair-cutting in the video but both the girl and the woman are taken to a wig shop and it looks like their hair is being evaluated for quality.

If you want to watch the video the title to search for on YouTube is:

Jovem deixa cabelo crescer para se parecer com princesa de conto de fadas

Very hard for me to understand "brazileiro" with my self-taught Portuguese but I think she says she wanted to grow it that long. Her mother told her she'd chop it while she is asleep and she responded, if you chop my hair while I sleep I'll leave you, mom. LOL

PS: not only a computer she has but a FLAT screen too.

Another thing I noticed that contrary to online comments, no it's not necessary to dress like that at the age of twelve in Rio either. The other long-haired woman, interestingly, can dress up normal. I just can't imagine my kid wearing clothes like that at that age.

The other woman will not chop for the $$$$ offered (2500 BRL -- 1300 USD). She keeps it

Natasha doesn't get the chop there either. (She can't decide, she loves her hair) So somewhere else later she gets that chop. When that woman in the wig shop evaluates her hair for quality she says she has never seen such (quality) hair in her life.

ETA: They cut it here around 6:10

[Othala]

Very hard for me to understand "brazileiro" with my self-taught Portuguese but I think she says........

Thanks PolarCathy for using your language skills to explain what was going on in that video.

[PolarCathy]

Thanks PolarCathy for using your language skills to explain what was going on in that video.

Welcome. Somebody with better Portuguese may be able to shed light on the details It's like a completely different language for me.

It's indeed very different from the Portuguese spoken in Portugal but I guess more understandable for a Portuguese...LOL I just couldn't resist.

[PrincessIdril]

ETA: They cut it here around 6:10

Is it bad that I got kinda excited that they played a clip from Barbie as Rapunzel in that video?