Curly hair, care unfair?

URLY hair is art in motion — untamed, unpredictable, and endlessly captivating.

- NIDHARSHANA RAJU

Each curl bends the rules, carrying a beauty that shifts with its mood. When dry, it flares into a halo of texture, bold and unapologetic, but when moisturised, it deepens into glossy coils, rich with definition and grace.

But the weight of class aesthetics that birthed rigid beauty standards, for several decades, demanded a laborious conformity that sought to erase curls altogether. They aimed at straightening, smoothening, and reshaping curls into something they were never meant to be. The story of Malcolm X, an African American revolutionary, whostraightened his hair everyday in prison, goes to show how deep rooted the self-hate imposed by white supremacy was.