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Photo: Anita Grant
I was a jailbait afore the Internet was a thing, so the afflatus for my hairstyles came from Hype Beard and Black Beard magazine, not Pinterest. Those accepted beard magazines that aggressive so abounding adolescent Black girls in the 90s aggressive Anita Grant’s new children’s book, Hello Hair.
The book, which appearance ambrosial illustrations of over 100 accustomed hairstyles from afro puffs to twists and locks, is advised to advice adolescent girls embrace their acme and adulation all the amazing things their accustomed beard can do. We batten alone with columnist Anita Grant about her accustomed beard adventure and why she’s on a mission to advice adolescent girls apprentice to adulation their crown.
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Growing up, Grant had a complicated accord with her hair. One of three girls, the Toronto built-in was built-in to Jamaican parents on adverse ends of the beard spectrum. ‘My dad was a dread, and my mother was a conformist with commendations to acute her hair,” she said. “When I anticipate about my childhood, I don’t accept abounding memories of putting my easily in my hair. My sisters and I got our beard [braided] for academy and apprenticed for appropriate occasions. And already we were old enough, it was every man for himself.”
One of Grant’s sisters became a hairstylist who did braids and weaves, something, she says, was both a absolution and a curse. “I could consistently accept my beard done. But it didn’t acquiesce me to apprentice about my beard and appearance my accustomed hair,” she said. And although she capital to embrace her accustomed hair, Grant says she tended to adumbrate abaft her braid as a teenager.
Grant said she alone acquainted admirable aback she was cutting weaves and wigs. But the COVID-19 communicable kept her from her approved salon accessories and affected her to analyze altered hairstyles and articles on her own. And aback she abstruse she was assured a child, she capital to accomplish abiding her babe had a altered accord with her hair. “I told myself that aback my adolescent was born, I was activity to accession her to adulation her accustomed hair,” she said. ”I capital her to apperceive that her beard is admirable in its accustomed state.”
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Grant says the afflatus for the styles in the book came from Black babe hairstyles she begin on Instagram and Pinterest. “I adulation to see what’s accident with this new generation. They angle for their acme and their curls in their accustomed state,” she said. “I aloof appetite to be able to abutment that and accord to that self-love.”
Photo: Anita Grant
“I apperceive how abundant I admired actuality able to blow those beard magazines and how air-conditioned it fabricated
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