13 Big Myths About Afro Hair Debunked by the Experts
glamour.comcan be complex to navigate around. Methods to manage it have of course evolved from simple or cornrows to styles such as dreadlocks, and afro shape-ups, all found in drawings, engravings, and hieroglyphs from Ancient Egypt.
I call it ‘prolific hair-ritage’. For diaspora children, growing up with a lack of accessibility and resources specifically catering to Black hair, was just one of the many nuanced annoyances we had to endure.
I know I'm not alone in remembering all those years watching my parents scramble over ways to deal with my textured hair. After centuries of trial, error, and research, the Afro hair community is starting to find that alternative and traditional methods which we’ve been conditioned to believe in, may not always be good, useful, or progressive to the health of our hair and So let's get these debunked.
Opinions do differ in this overly-scrutinised-but-under-researched hair texture, so we've rounded up some of the biggest Black hair myths directly from the experts below...False.
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