
Shrinkage Is Information, Not Failure
Your hair shrinks to 25% of its stretched length and you panic. The science says you should celebrate. Here is why shrinkage is one of the best things that can happen to your coils.
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Before they were a style, cornrows were a technology of survival — carrying seeds, hiding gold, and tracing escape routes in the grooves of a braid. The oldest hair pattern on the continent, and what it was really for.
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Your hair shrinks to 25% of its stretched length and you panic. The science says you should celebrate. Here is why shrinkage is one of the best things that can happen to your coils.

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