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Hairline Care

Any woman with kinky, textured hair – can wear it, love it and manage it. She only needs the right tools, inspiration and motivation.” So says Natural & Free: The Journey to Natural Beauty author, Monica Millner.

Hair care for Black women has evolved to become inclusive and diverse. If you watch reality shows, you’ll see favourites switching between natural hair, wigs, braids, bobs and everything in between. Black women can easily show how multi-faceted they’re with their hair, and despite the many different takes we have on our key hair looks, what’s the one thing we have in common? The protection of our hairlines.

In 2012, there was a collective gasp when paparazzi posted pictures of Naomi Campbell’s damaged hairline while she was on holiday in Ibiza. Although many of us grew up with women – mothers, aunts, grandmothers,

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