Many Black women have hair types and workplace-favored styles that require careful attention, and they can spend hundreds of dollars at salons each month on extensions, weaves, wigs, and braids.

For many Black Americans, especially women, affording their hair care also means confronting unfavorable beauty standards.

Many black women have hair types and workplace-favored styles that require careful attention, and they can spend hundreds of dollars at salons each month on extensions, weaves, wigs and braids.

Sultan believes that people should be allowed to do whatever makes them happy with their own hair and although Fanawopa was hesitant about her decision at first (mainly that her hair colour would be ...