Tia Mowry Shared an Inspiring Essay About Her Hair Journey and Embracing Her Grays
glamour.com.“Growing up, there were just no visuals or representation of someone who looked like me—Black girl with curly hair. All I saw being showcased was blonde, straight hair, blue eyes, white skin.
And there was little to no visibility for women of a certain age,” she wrote—as told to Kayla Greaves—for . She shared that toward the end of Sister Sister, which she starred on with sister Tamera, she began to straighten her hair, and later was told that her natural curls were “distracting” in auditions.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“That negative relationship with my hair went on for a very long time, until Instagram hit the scene in the 2010s.
I started to see more girls like me…curly girls, and just Black women celebrating all the various textures and colors of their hair at every age,” continued, adding that she's decided to represent not just “curly girls” but also women going gray, as she started to around age 40. “One thing that I credit my parents with is they've always taught me how to just be myself at every stage of my life.
And I've always had this perspective that it is a blessing to get old. There are so many people on a daily basis that are not making it to the age where their hair starts to gray.
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