Model-activist EboneeDavis on embracing natural hair, protecting your energy, and how self-care can be used as resistance.
Her hair and self-care routine are a natural extension of her ability to shape-shift, as well as evolve in owning and reclaiming her power. “I think as Black women, we’ve been taught to put ourselves last for every circumstance and care for everyone first,” Davis says. “Part of the resistance is reprogramming the colonial mindset, which tells us that pleasure for Black women is not in alignment for us, that it’s not in the stars for us.
But this strong sense of self took time to find. “I definitely did not always love my hair. I have memories of walking into a beauty supply store with my grandmother and seeing perm boxes and feeling like I wanted to look like the girls on the boxes,” Davis says. “I thought it was superior. I thought that my curly-kinky hair was inferior to straight hair. It’s crazy to think back to being so young and yet so programmed to think my hair was inadequate.
Davis, who decided to go natural and challenge her own personal beliefs about herself in 2015, still dealt with the psychological warfare that comes with self-love. “You can go natural and still look in the mirror and feel ugly. I had to do the work to repogram my mind.” She now recognizes the negative impact that feeling inadequate can have on a person’s psyche and relationships.
For these reasons, hair rituals are of vast importance to Davis. Lately, she’s been keeping her hair in twists underneath a scarf “to help retain moisture because, when it’s picked out, it has a tendency to get dry quicker.” She’s also been using her favoriting
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