I attended the #cutandcolour event the other week at Tate Britain. My first stop was with @burntrotimag who put together a Body Hair Positivity Worksop. Being Asian, I feel that hair is a blessing and a curse, we have all the thickness in the right places but unfortunately we all the excess in all the WRONG places 🙈
It made me think about the times when hairdressers would freak at the site of my hair because it was so thick and curly and their only solution was too thin it out or when Asian beauticians would thread my eyebrows to an unrealistic proportion (and I thought it was cool) because the only time big brows were seen was on the Gallagher Brothers (if you're a child of the 90's you'll know).
They even went as far as threading my poor little baby hairs and would say "it looked better". It was only when I took control of my hair and brows that thick hair became fashionable #TYPICAL!
Anyway, It made me wonder, being Asian we have such strong ties with our hair, our religious and spiritual connections, how the culture of long hair defines beauty but then anything in excess should not be seen. I'm curious to know, what have been your hair woes? or do you have a hair story? Good or bad or even funny. I'm interested to know