Plus, her super minimalist beauty routine.
softly coos with a voice that sounds like it's casting spells — the good kind. I wish I could say she was sitting in front of me at a hideaway café in the West Village, or that we were on our way to a life-altering meditative experience at one of Manhattan’s trending Himalayan salt rock caves. Instead, I’m planted in my Harlem apartment, walking laps around my room as I listen to Beetz from the other side of the line, her location unknown.
The audio was slightly muffled, but Beetz’s spirit shines through crystal clear. We start, naturally, chatting about her beauty routine. A self-described minimalist, Beetz's beauty routine is efficient and to the point — this extends to skin care, makeup, and yes, hair.
, while it's also a very black hairstyle, I think it mimics some of those European standards of what is considered beautiful," she says.Beetz's first hair memory is one many black women can relate to: "I'm sitting on the floor, [my mother is] on the couch or she's on her knees, and she's watching a soap opera [while] braiding my hair.
Questions aside, by the time Beetz moved to the U.S., her mother's influence led her to take her hair-care into her own hands once she reached high school. "I remember thinking, I have to figure this shit out." And so she did, embracing those natural coils. This was in the early 2000s, in the natural hair movement's nascent days. "As this young budding teenager, I remember wearing it out and walking down the street. I was so self-conscious.
"I have the confidence in other places, but I do attach my sense of beauty partially to my hair, which is why when I don't like [what] my hair [looks like] and I'm at an event, it's really emotional," she says. "It's emotional for a lot of people, but I think it would be a very different story if my texture [were] a softer, looser curl. I still get frustrated sometimes.
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