texture diaries

Texture Diaries is a space for Black people across industries to reflect on their journeys to self-love, and how accepting their hair, in all its glory, played a pivotal role in this process. Each week, they share their favorite hair…

For Ravyn Lenae, working on her latest EP, Hypnos, the follow-up to 2018’s Crush, was a four-year-long journey. “I feel like I had to shed a layer of myself in order to create the body of work that I did,” she says of the collection of…

Texture Diaries is a space for Black people across industries to reflect on their journeys to self-love, and how accepting their hair, in all its glory, played a pivotal role in this process. Each week, they share their favorite hair…

The confidence to color outside the lines—artistically and beautywise—stems from the spirit of her family. “Despite not seeing that much representation in the beauty space on television growing up, my parents really reminded me that I was…

Texture Diaries is a space for Black people across industries to reflect on their journeys to self-love and how accepting their hair, in all its glory, played a pivotal role in this process. Each week, they share their favorite hair…

Texture Diaries is a space for Black people across industries to reflect on their journeys to self-love, and how accepting their hair, in all its glory, played a pivotal role in this process. Each week, they share their favorite hair…

Texture Diaries is a space for Black people across industries to reflect on their journeys to self-love, and how accepting their hair, in all its glory, played a pivotal role in this process. Each week, they share their favorite hair…

Texture Diaries is a space for Black people across industries to reflect on their journeys to self-love, and how accepting their hair, in all its glory, played a pivotal role in this process. Each week, they share their favorite hair…

Texture Diaries is a space for Black people across industries to reflect on their journeys to self-love, and how accepting their hair, in all its glory, played a pivotal role in this process. Each week, they share their favorite hair…

“Finishing touches on one of my hair story creations.”Photo: Courtesy of JawaraWhile Jawara always loved doing hair, he only saw it as a side hustle at first. “I went to FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) for fashion, but I was training…