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We all know that rite of passage that we had to go through growing up as young girls. Yup, when you had to chemically-process your hair, for you to ‘look good’ and ‘fit in’.
I vividly remember having to perm my hair simply because I was a flower girl at one of the church women’s wedding. It was actually a requirement in some girls’ boarding schools, while others had to suffer the consequence of going to a rural school that required them to shave their hair.
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