Writer Olivia McCrea-Hedley on why she stopped embracing her natural curls amid a worrying cultural shift.
I’ve always wanted to be Julia Roberts. Specifically, 1997 Julia Roberts in My Best Friend’s Wedding: a blazer-wearing journalist with, notably, a mane of sensational, very natural-looking curls. As I sat and rewatched the film for the millionth time, marvelling at her hair, I clocked that mine – which is not dissimilar in texture or curl pattern – was styled poker straight. Again. In fact, it’s been like this for most of the past month or so.
So why now, after all this, is my hair straight again? Why has it been like this for weeks? Why have I, slowly but surely, begun to revert back to my old ways – straightening it when I need a confidence boost? Something has shifted. Not just in me, but in wider society: our role models, our ideals, in the media we consume. It feels as though all of the ‘positivity’ movements of recent years are beginning to dwindle.
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