Go With The ’Fro
As textured hair is finally being seen and celebrated, our beauty editor Nadine Baggott talks to those in the know to show you how to ace your afro
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Thandie takes her curls centre stage at last year’s Vanity Fair post-Oscars party. “Big hair gets a big reaction,” she says
Whenever I chat to a celebrity of colour, the talk will inevitably turn to their hair – from Jourdan Dunn telling me that her hair had been ruined by stylists who did not know how to handle or look after her natural texture, to Thandie Newton saying how liberating it was to finally free her ’fro and Lupita Nyong’o explaining why she decided to clip all her hair off.
The beauty industry has been slow to create foundation and concealers to match the myriad skin shades in the world, but even slower to develop luxurious, affordable and effective haircare for textured and afro hair.
However, things are finally changing. As a generation of women starts to speak up about their struggles with their hair and young stylists create new products, women are feeling enabled to celebrate their natural hair texture – from kinks to curls and ’fros to frizz.