Hair Hatred is Real When You’re Black and Female
3 min readApr 17, 2018
I’ve hated my hair for years, maybe even forever.
I grew up watching shampoo commercials featuring white women with silky smooth sheets of golden, brunette, and auburn hair, and I had plenty of white friends with hair that looked similar to what I saw on television. They flipped their rippling tresses over their shoulders or giggled as they batted it out of their faces in a high…