BEYONCE'S LITTLE SISTER SAYS SHE SPENT A WHOPPING US$50,000 A YEAR ON HER HAIR BEFORE CUTTING IT OFF

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Beyonce's little sister says she spent a whopping US$50,000 a year on her hair before cutting it off

October 1, 2009

Beyonce's little sister says she spent a whopping US$40,000 to US$50,000 a year on her hair before deciding to cut it all off.

Solange Knowles appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show last night where she talked about breaking her addiction to the salon with US comic Chris Rock - whose new movie Good Hair documents the staggering US$9 billion dollar industry catering to black women's hair.

Solange said: "Realistically, I was spending about US$40,000 to US$50,000 a year and probably half of my life, I grew up in a hair salon, my mum owned one. "There was always this feeling of always wanting to be in the salon once or twice a week and I got a perm pretty earlier - I was four."

After getting her hair cut, Solange said she felt liberated.

At the time she twittered: "I just wanted to be free of the bondage that black women sometimes put themselves through with hair. This phase in my life I want to spend the time the energy and the money on something else and not in the hair salon."

The comedian told Oprah he was stunned at the amount of money that even ordinary African-American women he met spent on their hair, through hair relaxing treatments and hair weaves.

The funnyman said he first got the idea to do his new documentary Good Hair after his own daughter Lola, now six, complained about having bad hair.

Chris said: "I was with my daughter one day, and we're in the car and she's with one of her friends in the back seat, a little white friend.

"She was just kind of raving about her friend's hair a little too much for my comfort saying, 'You've got great hair. Oh, your hair's so good.'"

After filming the documentary Chris said he now believes that women do their hair for one another.

He said: "They say it's for the men, but it's really for the women. Because guys don't care.

"There's no point in the history of the world where men were not sleeping with the women in front of them. We take what we can get."

The new documentary is set to be released October 9 in the US.

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