Crystal-Angelee Burrell Wrote About How Black People Can Find Joy in Black Hair Beauty Rituals

For a two-part investigation for Black Skin Directory, Crystal-Angelee Burrell explored how “legislation like the CROWN Act (USA) and the Halo Collective (UK) are helping to correct hair texture discrimination against the Black community.” Burrell shares how she “learned to love her natural Afro hair through the Black hair beauty ritual of Wash Day, and four practical tips for how Black people can transform Wash Day into a cause for celebration.” 

In part two, Crystal interviewed three Black women business owners and content creators about how their relationship to Wash Day. Crystal writes, “Wash Day sounds like a national holiday, so it’s high time we begin celebrating our hair texture accordingly. For the uninitiated, Wash Day is a Black heritage beauty ritual. Increasingly, Black families use Wash Day as a self-love right of passage so their children begin a healthy relationship with their natural Afro hair rather than internalizing society’s anti-Blackness–that is, the well-documented mistreatment of Black children and adults on the basis of their Afro hair textures or hairstyles.”  

Crystal’s writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Sweet July, and The CultureLP.