Ice-cold take: The natural hair scene is a little too focused on perfect curls.
Doesn’t matter if it’s S-shaped, coiled, or both that pattern better bedefined.
Preferably with a truckload of product.
Courtesy of TikTok/@wakneeta/@hakim_alem/@Lipglossssssssss
It becomes a pain in the ass.
More than that it’s another ridiculous beauty standard to live up to.
And it’s one Texas-based TikTokker Sasha, known as@Lipglossssssssss, is over.
Her very tight coils naturally experience shrinkage meaning that when her hair dries, it looks shorter.
People with highly-textured hair often experience this phenomenon, but on type4C hair, it is even more pronounced.
She decided to embrace her shrinkage and share the journey on TikTok.
“I feel like the constant need to stretch your hair was giving me anxiety,” Sasha says.
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She acknowledges her shrunken coils, but still only lightly styles and moisturizes.
Then, she lets them be.
“I don’t want to be part of a movement,” Sasha says.
“I just want to be myself.”
Her videos still underscore the need for natural hair spaces to actually be inclusive of kinks as they exist.
Though her initial clip is gone, thesound still liveson.
Other creators are using it in their content about embracing shrinkage.
New York-based TikTok user and natural hair influencerHakima Alemshares that the video made her feel “less alone.”
In her own version, Alemwashes and blow-dries her hairas Sasha’s voice plays in the background.
She reveals her coils in a simple half up, half down style at the end.
“I’m also Ethiopian.
“I just want other Ethiopian women to see that our Afros are beautiful too!”
Sasha’s video resonated deeply withJuanita, another TikTok creator.
It hasn’t always been smooth sailing, but she never really thought her coils were ugly per se.
Instead, the pressure to constantly style her hair a certain way came from outside.
She’s less inclined to do all that work today.
Their video quickly takes us through various stages of getting glam.
“Good hair isn’t about the texture of your hair and how loose your curl pattern is.
It’s about the beauty and natural state of your hair,” they share.
She’s not trying to convince anyone that kinky hair is beautiful as it is.
She’s just trying to love who she is.
