It was a question I got asked often from my friends when they heard I had entered Miss S.A. - 'will you get a weave?' I always said I haven't changed myself before so why should I now change for a competition?
I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.
I always change my hair, but I don't like haircuts!
So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair.
As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair on or grow hair for a role.
I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make me look to the outside world.
Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.
Growing up, it was always a huge battle with my mom to let me color my hair or add extensions.
I used to get perms to straighten my hair and change the texture.
