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(That is, if your mom wasn’t some kind of hairstylist.)
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If they’re lucky, those looks are revered and recreated by the next generation.
This could not be more true forFresh Prince of Bel-AirstarTatyana Ali.
Her character Ashley Banks was a fashion and beauty icon as she entered her teens.
Ali with co-star Karyn Parsons.
One swipe through fashion TikTok and you’ll see both the actress and the character has made an impression.
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“I still think that’s dope.”
“It’s funny now, but it wasn’t funny at the time.
“We had someBlack hairstylistsand barbers that came in and out,” she says.
“The round-brush blow-dry, you had to have,” says Ali.
The sleeker the better my hair personally suffered from that.”
These days, Ali says she believes that studios are more sensitive.
Of course, there is room for improvement, but she sees the small changes.
“The last pilot I did [had] a predominantly white cast,” she explains.
“There were two actors of color and I was one of them.
They made sure we had two hair and makeup stylists of color to just work with us.”
“I was ready with my tools just in case,” she admits.
“You come like that, you come with your bag of stuff.
It’s really unfair.”
The only thing she’s really dealing with isdry strands.
“My hair routine now is a lot simpler,” she says.
“My hair is not really curly and it’s not totally straight.
It sometimes has a little wave.
But it looks dry, so I like shine stuff and moisture, moisture, moisture.”
She also likes theHead Rush Shine Hair Spray For Smooth Shiny Hairwhen she wants a glossy look.
(We’re partial to the Best of Beauty-winningKerastase Paris Discipline Serum Huile Oleo-Relax.)
“I’m not doingbox braidsor anything I’m not adding any hair to it.”
“We’re the braid crew,” she says.
One thing that keeps theFresh Prince of Bel-Airso watchable even now is the chemistry between the cast.
And they weren’t faking it.
“We were having so much fun at the reunion.
They just filmed us talking for two days straight.”
Something that meant so much to us personally for all those years still means something to people?
It’s a gift of a lifetime, she says.
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