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It seems a crazy world we live in that one’s natural hair needs to be defended in the first place, but in the case of Beyonce, such a bizarre happening just went down. Debuting her natural afro on Instagram last week – and sporting the beautiful coiled curls ever since – Queen Bey was met with sea of both love and hate on social media.
Whilst the ‘Yonce-ettes took to Twitter and Instagram to admire and applaud her hairy homecoming, disturbingly, race-fuelled hair hate has saturated social media. Whilst the hater mantra has been varied, the hardline is that there’s no way it’s Beyonce’s real hair. Questioning its volume, fullness and buoyancy, trolls vented racial assumptions via social media, but hairstylist Neal Farinah – the man responsible for her “beautiful natural curly hair” – has had none of it. On his personal Instagram, he posted a video defending not only Beyonce, but black women in general: “Sometimes women make choices, and black women are not the only ones who wear wigs and weaves and pieces. Remember that.”
“And underneath the wigs and weaves? Black women have some of the most beautiful, curly hair. It’s a choice a woman makes — and that’s the choice a black woman [makes] to wear wigs or weaves, if she wants to. Ain’t nothing wrong with it.”
“So, the myth about Black women not having hair? Y’all think again, ’cause they have some of the most beautiful, textured hair. Recognise,” he added.
Preach.
Cover and Tile Image: Instagram, @beyonce
