—be.that_kdan, Instagram —erinal —smileyk —boogerlady —kim1_f, Instagram —khashel_alorn_aura —j9er “I was about to be 16, and I convinced my mom I was old enough for the cut, and I got it. I was ecstatic — I was one step closer to being completely free of perms. I missed the next perm appointment because of school activities, so I had the perfect excuse to not to go. I was free to let my natural hair grow more, so I wouldn’t be completely bald when I dropped the question, ‘Can I cut my hair?’ I knew it had to be at the right time, or I wouldn’t be able to ask the question again until I was graduating high school. “The next time we all went to the beauty shop was the weekend after Easter, and I needed my hair done for a performance. I looked at my beautician and told her to cut my hair. My mom was under the hair dryer, but somehow, she still heard and was against it, but the beautician knew how badly I wanted the cut; she helped me convince my mom this was the right choice for me and cut off all the permed hair until my new growth. My mom was crying for the rest of our time there. She saw hair as a ‘crown,’ and the perm was the best representation of that, but as the young lady I was, I knew that having hair was just the beginning of the placement of the crown. How we feel about our hair and how we present it is the full crown.” —__FroShow —slaughter_queenjade, Instagram —extraspecialcrunchy, Instagram —neuroticgardengnome —kamionwilliams —taxxib, Instagram
