The inspiration behind I Love My Hair is to empower our little black girls to love and embrace their natural hair. Our hair can be worn in literally every style that has been imagined! I wanted to showcase the versatility of our gorgeous coily, kinky hair and show off some of the amazing hairstyles that we are able to rock!
As we were growing up, many girls in my generation experienced trauma around our hair in different forms like being told that it needs to be managed, handled, tamed or some other version of this from our family members and close ones. Some of us were picked on by kids in school or simply received negative self images from television, music videos, the media overall, and advertisements. Also we were met with negative stereotypes/myths associated with our hair like it’s “not good hair”, it’s dirty because we don’t wash it as much, that our hair cannot grow past shoulder length, or that it is rough/coarse. All of these notions are far from the truth but can still lead us to have a negative outlook about our hair. If we are not conscious of it, we can pass on our internalized self hate to our children or the people closest to us.
Having 4c hair myself, throughout my childhood my mother (like a lot of other moms) put chemical relaxers in my hair so that it would be deemed presentable. I have experienced chemical scalp burns from it being left on too long, not to mention the burns I received from the hot comb and then flat iron after it was already chemically straightened. Also, that horrible feeling being underneath the grip of a heavy handed “professional” braider that seems like she took pleasure in my pain, as if having your hair follicles pulled from your scalp is normal. Needless to say, by the time I was able to take claim over my hair journey, I did so with the quickness!
I say all this to say that with research and inspiration our children can have beautiful non traumatic hair experiences. Especially nowadays, with the natural hair communities and all the information floating around on the internet, we can give our daughters and family members a different hair experience than we had. We can empower them through being conscious of how we speak about their hair (and ours) and by being mindful of the things they are intaking through social media and television. In the times we are living in, we have to instill within our black children Extra Self Love. They need to have a solid foundation from home that they are worthy, beautiful, and can live the life they deserve. It's up to our community to give our youth what we didn’t receive even if we still aren’t there yet ourselves.
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