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“I realized the magnitude of someone looking at themselves after finally seeing who they were and being completely shocked that that’s what their hair wanted to do naturally,” Brown says. “It was more than the outside appearance, it was the internal shift.” “It’s really important they feel they no longer have to hide behind their hair,” she says. “It’s no longer something shameful, no longer that same burden they’ve carried since their traumatic early childhood when someone would either stick a pencil in their hair and they wouldn’t notice, or their mom would express,or whatever it may be. Because there is such a huge level of trauma that is associated with having curly hair.
But Brown and Kelly pushed on, battling not only financial struggles, but also homophobia and racism along the way. Ultimately, Brown and Kelly decided to put their pictures on the LunaBella website. If people didn’t want to book with them, they decided, so be it.
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