Celebrate Black Hair | Understanding Begins With Education | Aveda

My sister was, i remember she was she came home crying one day and i was wondering why and she said to me, my boss told me that my hair was unprofessional. Now the story behind that was that she left straight, but it rained and it became curly. So she left it down curly and they immediately addressed her that left such an impact on me that i thought to myself why? Why is it something that grows out of your head unprofessional? So when i got into school, particularly at school, i remember seeing the books and wondering where, were there curly hair people in the educational manuals we all know in hair school? We had three pages that had any texture education and that all encompassed more relaxing. I learned in cosmo school. You learn one kind of hair. You learn what i call that white hair like when i learn textured hair. I learn on myself when i went to go teach at cosmetology school and i realized that there was no texture education. I was like oh so this is a common thing and then the more i did it. The more i realized, oh, my god, like no cosmetology school, is teaching textured hair. How is this possible? How are we cranking out hairstylists that, at the end of the day, say i'm a hair stylist and they can't there is like 65 of the population that they can't take care of. We know that anyone with curly hair has had a bad experience behind the chair. I wasn't the most knowledgeable stylist with curls and coils and making a guest one time feel as though my space wasn't inclusive for them, and i never wanted to give anyone that feeling again. That is a conversation that should be part of every salon. No one should walk into a space and feel uncomfortable. They walk in and have every stylist look at them and say i'm not doing that. That'S there's something wrong with that, and now, when somebody goes to cosmetology school, if you're gon na know every kind of hair, that's offered to me any hair that comes to my seat. At least i have a starting point: we're talking about texture types and patterns, um, we're making people understand what each curl pattern does. I want to take the fear away from the stylists who who say i don't know how to do it, let's figure it out together. Let'S figure it out together, because now you have an arsenal of products here that you need to learn how to use. What we're talking about is just cutting hair, styling, hair and once you have the knowledge, knowledge destroys fear and if all the people that we train can be on board with that mission, we'll do that. We'Ll change the industry, the story that it's been telling and i'm excited about that you