somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time
#my entire childhood lol#my mom HAD super thick curly hair but she grew up in the 60s and 70s and has been drying & recurling it with curlers for decades#so the goal was Always to have straight hair#she used to dry it and brush it straight but it was always so puffy and frizzy#i wanted a flat iron throughout all of middle school and when i finally got one i would SEAR my soaking wet hair with it#thankfully halfway through high school i figured out how to have my curly hair#but god. those were the dark days#i also had bangs until 6th grade which were NOT a look
