This past Saturday I went to my stylist Giselle for a trim. We started talking about how the rise of some negativity in the natural hair movement has saddened us. Some of this is from women who are glad they went natural, but are not satisfied with their "grade" of hair and cannot see the beauty in their hair and themselves. Others are criticizing women of mixed ethnic heritage or whose hair is a looser curl pattern, saying that those women's natural hair experiences don't really count because they don't really have "kinky" or "nappy" hair. Giselle's new location is great; check it out!. Salon: Dailey & Co. Address: 1105 Mt. Vernon NE, Atlanta, GA 30328 Intersection: Mt. Vernon Highway NE and Peachtree Dunwoody Road NE My discussion with Giselle reminded me of a post a friend of mine forwarded to me by a blogger named Veronica titled “Why I Stopped Blogging About Natural Hair.” The writer bemoaned the o...
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