kinky
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Bailey lets her displeasure be known by having a friend shave off her beautiful spray of kinky hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
For generations, many Black people had viewed their naturally kinky hair as a liability, and either trimmed it close to the scalp or straightened it, often using painfully caustic chemicals to do so.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
The cultural politics surrounding Black women’s natural hair, from loose curls to kinky coils, stretch back hundreds of years.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
She, too, has seen how, over the past decade, there has been an extreme focus on encouraging women of African ancestry to celebrate their kinky, curly and coily hair texture.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
She would snip the bottom of a sweater and pull out a kinky thread of yarn, anchoring it to a piece of cardboard.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
The hair at the nape of the neck, which is typically shorter, kinkier and considered more difficult to style.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2023
If you have a kinkier, coarser hair texture, you can easily spend three or four hours on what we call “wash day.”
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2017
They are beyond square, which is to say that they are stranger, kinkier and more interestingly individual than David, Rose, Kenny or Casey.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2013
But just as a botanical insurrection seems imminent —a sort of “Rise of the Planet of the Azaleas” — things take a kinkier and daffier turn.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2012
My own hair had always been bright red, but lately it had started getting darker and kinkier.
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
