“ Who gets to be applauded as being cool and edgy or fashionable or making a ‘hood’ look chic?” “Who has to defend their look or be dealt blows of ignorant statements or sometimes dehumanizing statements and then who doesn't?” says Kimberly Jenkins, a fashion history and theory lecturer at Parsons School of Design. Amandla Stenberg famously broke down the issue in a YouTube video that also served as a school project on cultural appropriation. It caused a complete uproar, launching a thousand think pieces on the origins of cornrows, who owns them, and who is allowed to wear them - all while lifestyle sites continued to publish pieces on styles originating from by Black culture as a hot trend “ taken to a new epic level” by white stars. By 2015, Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner, and Khloe Kardashian had also been spotted wearing cornrows. In 2011, Kim Kardashian filmed a music video wearing a Fulani braid style and called them “Bo Derek braids.” Actor Bo Derek wore the style in 1979 for the film 10 and was credited with making it a popular style back then, a perspective that overlooked the braids’ origins in a nomadic pastoral community of West Africa. Twelve other states are considering the CROWN Act or writing their own bill.Īs terms like “ unapologetically black,” “ carefree black girl” and “ black girl magic” became popular and more doors opened for Black visibility in spaces that weren’t always accepting, cultural appropriation and Black culture became a big topic of discussion. A hair anti-discrimination bill also recently passed in New Jersey, the same state wherein 2018 a wrestler was told to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit the match. The CROWN Act, which bars discrimination against protective styles and hair texture, was passed this year in New York and will go into effect in California in January 2020.
In 2014, the United States Military finally lifted their ban on natural hairstyles like twists and locs. In the workplace and educational settings, protective styles were still discriminated against, ridiculed as “unkempt” or gawked at, but Black people were no longer quiet about it. Indeed, wigs and braids became a luxury, saving black women from frequent trips to the hair salon, time while getting ready for work in the morning, and even, for those in the public eye, styles gone wrong on photo-shoot sets. “For consistency, my lifestyle, and my travel schedule, what made the most sense was braid extensions and twists,” said former MSNBC on-air host and longtime braid wearer Melissa Harris-Perry in the foreword of the new edition of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America. From there, Natasha Rothwell of Insecure and other actors chimed in to share their experiences. It’s either that or take a chance that you will look crazy on-screen,” actor Yvette Nicole Brown said on Twitter. “Most black actresses come to a new set w/ their hair done (me) or bring their wigs & clip-ins w/them.
Beauty vloggers on YouTube were not only documenting their own hair journeys and giving product recommendations, but posting tutorials on how viewers could braid, twist, and cornrow their own hair with videos like “ Janet Jackson Poetic Justice Makeup + Braids” and “ Step by Step Marley Twists for Beginners.” These styles were convenient but also a creative outlet, and the videos helped shed light on how often Black women would switch up their hairstyles.īlack actors and models also started openly discussing the need for style teams that could do textured hair. These styles also began to be known as protective styles.
Braids were being worn more frequently, in all seasons, as a way to transition from having relaxed hair to natural hair without doing a lot of tugging and styling. Documentaries such as My Nappy Roots: A Journey Through Black Hair-itage shed light on both black hair and the impact of Eurocentric beauty standards throughout history, while artists such as India Arie, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, and Lauryn Hill were wearing their natural hair. By 2010, all eyes were on the natural-hair movement.
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