alopecia
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In Her First House Appearance Since Her Radical Reveal, Ayanna Pressley Was Bald and Beautiful
In the midst of an impeachment trial that is fraught with obfuscation, transparency in politics is a rare and beautiful thing. So, too, is the bravery it took for Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) to trust The Root with the recent disclosure that she has alopecia and had been wearing wigs to hide her bald head…
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Interviewing Ayanna Pressley About Her Alopecia Encouraged Me to Go Public With Mine
I didn’t expect to get choked up in front of Ayanna Pressley. But 17 minutes into our interview at The Root headquarters in New York City on Monday, as she began telling me one of her most personal hair stories by detailing her experience with alopecia, I blinked through tears and silently reflected on my…
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Exclusive: Rep. Ayanna Pressley Reveals Beautiful Bald Head and Discusses Alopecia for the First Time
Ayanna Pressley loves playing with her hair. Before she became a Massachusetts Congresswoman (and a high-profile member of “The Squad”), Pressley would experiment with different hairstyles and textures, getting a weave and even cutting her own hair. Lately, she’s been experimenting with lace-front wigs. “One I call ‘FLOTUS’ because it feels very Michelle Obama to…
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Bronner Bros. Big-Upped Rachel Dolezal, and Our Heads–and Edges—Hurt
“I am definitely not [right].” That’s what we imagine Rachel Dolezal Nkechi Amare Diallo’s edges say at least a half dozen times a day, as they do the Lord’s work trying to hold onto the pounds of hair she keeps insisting on braiding into her scalp with vice-like precision. It’s not a haircare technique we’d…
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Free Wigs 4 Kids: How One Woman Is Restoring Children's Confidence, One Wig at a Time
Hair is Quilla Bohannon’s passion; it has been since she was a schoolgirl, feigning attending after-school extracurricular activities so she could braid the hair of her classmates for extra spending money, as she told The Glow Up: I like to say I got the gift of doing hair from my grandmother. … The first time…
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Desired Extensions Is Changing Lives, One Tress at a Time
Gina Conwell knows hair. You could say that the owner of high-end hair boutique Desired Extensions was born into the beauty industry: Her parents own All-in-1 Beauty Supply, an Atlanta beauty emporium that has served local residents for the past 40 years. Conwell began working in the family business as a sales rep in her…