One look at the amazing thicket of natural curls on Tracee Ellis Ross and you'd have to wonder how she could have ever resisted her natural curls. In a recent interview, the star of the hit television show Black-ish admits that there was a time when she tried to beat her hair into submission to conform to the long, silky-straight hair beauty standard.
And then Tracee got woke.
And then Tracee got woke.
As Tracee tells Redbook, "For a long time, I was trying to beat my hair into submission so that it would do what I thought it was supposed to do to be sexy, so that it would be silky. But the more I supported my hair in its authentic texture, the more choices I had for it to do hundreds of different things. That was exciting to me. I'm really grateful to the whole natural-hair movement. It's a genuine expression of how the culture of beauty is expanding to be less about perfection and concealment."
Amen to that, my sista.
Amen to that, my sista.