The Daily Mississippian African-American women are increasingly abandoning chemicals and relaxers for healthier, less-damaging, all-natural methods.
The UM Women of Color Network presented the first part of the two-night event, “Pressed by Perceptions: Natural Hair Care and Cultural Expression on a College Campus,” which is aimed to provide advice for women on how to maintain healthy hair, to conclude Black History Month.
Women gathered at the Robert C. Khayat Law Center Weems Auditorium for two natural hair panels, a hair tutorial by stylist AJ Lester and a “product” talk with free samples, door prizes and a question and answer segment.
Rachel Coleman, an academic advisor at the Center for Student Success and First-Year Experience, moderated the event.
The first panel was led by students. Miss Ole Miss Acacia Santos, a senior mechanical engineering major, Kalah Walker, a senior IMC major and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Tiara Mabry, a senior psychology and nursing major and member of Sigma Gamma Rho, Randon Hill, a sophomore English and Spanish major and member of Zeta Phi Beta and Janell Granger, a senior IMC major and member of Delta Sigma Theta took their seats at center-stage.
As the girls answered questions, photos of their hair transitions from childhood up to now were displayed.
Walker said, growing up, her mom didn’t know what to do with her hair so she just put a perm on it. When she “big chopped,” at 5 years old, and cut off the relaxed or permed ends of her hair in order to transition from chemically processed hair to natural hair, she was devastated.
“I was crying,” Walker said. “I felt like the world was over and I was losing my mind.”
She decided to use wigs for a while until making the transition to natural.
Mabry was natural until she was four and her mom gave her a perm. She had a ...
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Ole Miss students, staff talk natural hair
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