The first time I got a perm I believe I was 12 years old. I guess that’s like the standard age for Black girls to get a perm. I just had an epiphany, I don’t know what happened, I think someone was talking about their natural hair and I was like wait a minute, I haven’t seen my natural hair since I was 12 years old. So I began doing research and it turns out perms actually didn’t help your hair grow. I think a lot of Black women feel like perms helps their hair grow when in reality it was just stripping away all of its beauty. I was like no this has to stop, so I wore little natural styles for a while and I was like wait a minute… I look good! I just felt like it was something I needed to do, it’s not a trend to me. This is who I am, this is what I was born with and I’m going to keep it. What am I going to kill that for?"