I spent 18 years of my life coveting a hair texture that was not mine. Elle.com Growing up, I was inundated with fashion and beauty magazines that constantly promoted silky, flowing straight hair as the look du jour. Everywhere I looked, I saw women who looked like me and women who didn't being praised and prized for their pin-straight locks. Needless to say, I gradually began to loathe my own hair -- a kinky, coily crown that was so unlike the beauty icons I looked up to. I often struggled...
I spent 18 years of my life coveting a hair texture that was not mine. Elle.com Growing up, I was inundated with fashion and beauty magazines that constantly promoted silky, flowing straight hair as the look du jour. Everywhere I looked, I saw women who looked like me and women who didn't being praised and prized for their pin-straight locks. Needless to say, I gradually began to loathe my own hair -- a kinky, coily crown that was so unlike the beauty icons I looked up to. I often struggled...
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