While reading through books and articles for career advice, I often come across information regarding proper dress and attire for interviews and what to wear once you’ve attain the job. Astonishingly, many columnists and writers seem to share the belief that “sleek, polished hair”, or straight, hair is more “professional.” One writer went so far to say that “a blow dry is a must” for the first day of work and if you google “professional hairstyle” photos of straight styles with little to no wave pop up. What’s most striking is that when I read these columns the underlying logic seems to be that curly hair is lazy hair. It’s distracting, it’s unruly, it needs to be tamed. If you wear your hair curly, it’s because you were too indolent to do anything else with it.
Let’s get this straight: curly hair is not lazy hair. It boggles my mind that I even have to type this. The majority of the world’s population has curly hair, yet this hair type is so hopelessly misunderstood.
To all of you clueless about how curly, coily, kinky, wavy, and frizzy hair works, here are the cold, hard facts:
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1. Curly hair is high maintenance and the curlier your hair is, the more high maintenance it is.
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