'Kinks in the movement': Staging a curly hair revolution in New Haven
The curly hair movement – and market – is growing, as more people learn to style and to celebrate their natural hair.
This hour, we hear from one salon that’s just for natural curls in Connecticut. Luvena Leslie opened The Curly Hair Salon in 2011. "So many people have had bad experiences before they come to us," Leslie says.
Viola Clune, a Yale student and editor of the New Journal, recently wrote a piece about salons like Leslie's, and the work they do to untangle "hair trauma," titled "Kinks in the Movement." She joins the conversation.
Clune writes that The Curly Hair Salon "exists as a…
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