Out of the myriad of the things I have tried, there are a few things that have maintained consistent: Ayurvedic practices, Rice water, and Tea. Each provides substantial benefits to my hair strands and has contributed to my tail-bone length hair.

You know what's real?…the jarring realization that White is no longer the standard of desirability; it is White-adjacent or racially ambiguous. And having curly hair is part of that standard.

We’ve grown up as baby heirs because White Supremacy raised us, and hair is a more potent indicator of race than skin color.

In other words, Kinky hair is the only thing exclusively indicative of African roots, and it can oftentimes afford a dark-skinned person with light-skinned privilege in many parts of the word.

How do we navigate conversations about weave when dating? Especially in a catfish farm of a world? Is this something Black women should have put in their dating profiles?