The Story I Went Looking for Was Not the Story I Found
I set out to write about the pink tax. The number everyone repeats did not hold up, and the cost that did have evidence behind it was not the one at the register.
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Sheree Wynn
Sheree Wynn is the founder and editor of Natural Girlies Magazine.
She was building things for textured hair long before she started writing about it. Wynn Essentials, the hair care line she runs with her sisters Patricia and Karina, grew out of the wash days the three of them were raised on. She wrote Business Basics for Braiding Hair for braiders who are running an entire business out of a chair and rarely get treated like it. Hair Wellness Lab and Braid Boss Pro exist because she went looking for those tools, could not find them, and built them herself. She is working on a master's in health systems with a concentration in artificial intelligence.
None of that makes her a dermatologist, and this magazine is never going to pretend otherwise. What it does mean is that every claim here traces back to peer reviewed research, and every study's limits get stated out loud: the small samples, the industry funding, the people the researchers did not include. If the evidence is thin, the article says so.
She writes from Los Angeles.
Editor’s Notes by Sheree
The Conversation Was Moved—and Black Women Were Asked to Carry It
The strongest research on natural-hair bias was about hiring, not attraction. Somewhere between the study and the conversation, the setting changed—and the accountability went with it.
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Why Natural Girlies Had to Exist
We had tutorials, reviews, routines, and more opinions than any one wash day could hold. What we did not have was enough space to ask why.
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