Lorraine Massey Quotes

I often have the fantasy that curly girls are mermaids who have had to adapt to life on dry land. We come from the sea. The ocean is in our blood. It sings through our heart and lungs, our skin and hair. Our curls require the nourishment only a watery environment can provide. Both ocean waves and curly hair are forces of nature that can't be tamed. We can only accept and admire their power and beauty.

Curly Girl: It's more than just hair, it's an attitude.

Every day is a new day and you’ve got to just go with the flow.

Every day is a new day and you’ve got to just go with the flow. Accepting yourself as you are and letting go of what society says you should be are first steps toward freeing yourself. “Free your hair and the rest will follow

When clients ask colorist Michael Flores what to say to their tween or teen daughters who want highlights, he sees the daughter for a consultation. Then he explains that highlights require touch-ups every four to six weeks, that they can cause dryness, and that they are pricey. “I insist that the child pays for her hair coloring,” says Michael. “She needs to know this is something you don’t get free for the rest of your life and that it’s a responsibility. Then if she still wants it, I make her wait until she’s fifteen.

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself . . . to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.” —ALICE WALKER

If you try going silver and don’t like it, you are just one box of hair color or one salon appointment away from dyeing it back again.