My Curly Hair Conundrum, Part II + A Tribute to Ayesha Malik

Fast-forward again to late 2019. This subject is still painful for me, so I will be brief. I’d been living in my parents’ house for two years, having moved back to Texas in the aftermath of the implosion of an abusive relationship. Without a therapist I fell into some pretty bad habits, including staying up quite late strolling about the Internet. And I’m glad I did, or I wouldn’t have seen news that the DevaCurl products — on which I’d spent a decade of my life and tens of thousands of dollars — were causing intensive damage to curly haired folks…