“My forties were all about loving myself, however I show up, and being okay with that,” itsgabrielleu says. Here, Union shares her hair journey for the latest TextureDiaries.
is a space for Black women across industries to reflect on their journeys to self-love and how accepting their hair, in all its glory, played a pivotal role in this process. Each week, these women share their favorite hair rituals, products, and the biggest lessons they’ve learned when it comes to affirming their beauty and owning their unique hair texture.
Union’s own hair evolution has been, as she puts it, “lifelong.” When she was eight, her family moved from Omaha to Pleasanton, California, which felt “99.9% white,” she recalls. “I thought I could achieve the right kind of attention if I just looked like the other girls and had straight hair.” At the time, she looked to relaxer as a magic potion that “wasn’t just going to give me straight hair but also somehow change my features,” she remembers.
She found the system maddening, with ever-shifting goalposts of “respectability politics—all these things...that you need to do in order to be accepted and exalted.” Eventually, she decided to make her own rules.Almost Christmas.
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