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Hollywood and the lack of care for black hair - with Shalita Grant | TALKinPINk

Hollywood and the lack of care for black hair - with Shalita Grant | TALKinPINk

Released Monday, 27th February 2023
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Hollywood and the lack of care for black hair - with Shalita Grant | TALKinPINk

Hollywood and the lack of care for black hair - with Shalita Grant | TALKinPINk

Hollywood and the lack of care for black hair - with Shalita Grant | TALKinPINk

Hollywood and the lack of care for black hair - with Shalita Grant | TALKinPINk

Monday, 27th February 2023
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On today's episode of TALK in PInk, we welcome TV, Film, & stage actress and Owner of FourNaturalsHair.com, Shalita Grant! We all know that Hollywood values white hair, but what about black hair? In this talk, Shalita Grant, an authority, artist, and entrepreneur discusses the lack of care black hair receives in the entertainment industry. She shares her experiences and talks about the need for change. If you want to improve the natural hair that comes out of your head - then this is a must watch. Shalita shares how her experiences as an African-American Actress in Hollywood on the set of #NCIS, #You, and more helped lead her to #FourNaturalsHair and how shes helping the industry! Including you, ..... (You know who you are) #TALKinPINk #ShalitaGrant #WokeThotism Follow Shalita Grant @ShalitaGrant on IG Shalita Grant was inspired to launch haircare line after exiting her role as Sonja Percy on 'NCIS.' Following her exit from the series, Shalita has gone on to many projects from You to the award winning Abbott Elementary. During this time, she decided to launch her own line of natural products called Four Naturals. "For Black women, the way our hair is policed is that we're told it's unprofessional in its natural state," she said in an interview with Vulture in July 2020. "With NCIS, it wasn't just that the people didn't know how to do my hair. The cosmetology board teaches that hair is hair, which essentially erases Black and Asian hair, because there are differences." "It was all because, in their minds, a love interest doesn't look like that," she told the outlet. "A love interest has straight hair." She added, "It's all built around those assumptions, and I suffered because of that." She is on the path to helping to bring the best of what grows naturlaly out of our heads to the forefront

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