beautiful within, adorned without
For the curly girl, “there’s no such thing as a bad hair day.” That’s what I read in the Curly Girl book, and it sounded too good to be true. My life up until halfway into college had been made up of a series of bad hair days. My hair was always what I called “foofy”—a frightening combination of poofy… Read More
By Alice W. I have always had thick, wavy and a little bit curly hair. Growing up, I battled with mountains of frizz and spit ends. I have often found myself almost tearing my hair out over how unmanageable it can be sometimes! Over the years, I have tried so many different things to try to fix some of my hair’s… Read More
By Kalyn Brooke Ever since I can remember, I’ve always been frustrated with my hair. It was always too thick, too frizzy, or too wavy, and I had an awful time trying to manage it. Every product I tried, just didn’t seem to work. So when I heard a friend recommend WEN Hair Care to me, I thought, why not? What… Read More
I was born with a head full of curly hair. Well, actually, I was bald. But as soon as I got hair, it was snarly and kinky and very ill-behaved. One of my earliest memories was of me sitting on a stool in the bathroom, holding on to the doorknob for dear life so I wouldn’t fall off while my… Read More
Recently a friend remarked casually that she had woken up that morning to find her hair looking wavy and lovely. She didn’t even style or do anything to it before heading off to class.That has never happened to me. I’ve always labored over my hair. Sometimes I loathed it. Sometimes I love it. Thankfully, I’ve found a way to keep… Read More
It was straight when I was little. Blond and silky straight, falling out of braids and hair ties. Papa told me it was the color of spun gold and I would wrap the strands around my fingers and marvel. People seemed to like gold, according to storybooks, and here I had a whole head of it! Then I turned eleven… Read More
