Miss D.C. Shares The Inspiring Reason She's Wearing Her Hair Natural Tonight

When Kára McCullough, or Miss D.C. as you may know her after tonight's Miss USA competition, walked onto the stage during preliminaries on Thursday in Las Vegas, she was the only one rocking her natural curls in a sea of smooth, polished blowouts, voluminous sets, and stick-straight styles (around 49 of them, to be exact). But going against the grain wasn't exactly an easy choice for the 25-year-old. "When I choose to wear my hair curly, I was afraid," she told Refinery29. "I didn't know if peo...