"Normally when you change your hairstyle, only people within your immediate circle comment on it. However I'm a black woman. Our choices cannot be pried apart from politics, scrutiny, and a bizarre level of intrigue." We couldn't help but be stopped in our tracks by this beautiful young woman, and her thoughtful and poignant essay on the politics surrounding her hair-care choices. After deciding that paying for a weave was out of her budget, writer Christiana Mbakwe chose to have her hair braide...
"Normally when you change your hairstyle, only people within your immediate circle comment on it. However I'm a black woman. Our choices cannot be pried apart from politics, scrutiny, and a bizarre level of intrigue." We couldn't help but be stopped in our tracks by this beautiful young woman, and her thoughtful and poignant essay on the politics surrounding her hair-care choices. After deciding that paying for a weave was out of her budget, writer Christiana Mbakwe chose to have her hair braide...
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