Multiracial Girls Celebrate Their Hair as Heritage |
Multiracial Girls Celebrate Their Hair as Heritage
Women’s eNews
2015-11-12
Karly Smith, Teen Voices at Women’s eNews
Washington, D.C.
Specialty hair products that cater to girls with mixed-race hair are booming and YouTube videos offer lessons in cheap, DIY recipes. “I love my hair!” says one girl. “It adds its own personality because it can be so big and exotic.
WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS)–Sophia Johnson wasn’t always thrilled with the hair products she used to tame her long, loose, auburn curls. Some were too strong and oily. Others dried out the hair of the 15-year-old D.C. native.
The commercials she saw on TV seemed to make products for straight, tameable hair while her biracial heritage limited her access to appropriate styling creams and conditioners.
For Johnson, and the growing numbers of those under 18 who check more than one “race” box on their Census forms, beauty care products for multiracial women have been pouring onto the market in recent years…
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