Do you wear natural hairstyles to work? Why or why not 👀

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Yes I have locs & I refuse to get my hair restwisted often. I’m not thinning my hair out to please these folks. I do make sure I look presentable tho, that’s all that matters.

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Period

I make sure to interview with my natural hair so there are no surprises

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Oh yea I’m in there with all the styles crochet, blowouts , twists , twist out, turbans … I’m doing me

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Yes I do. As a person in leadership I do it so other junior women of color feel empowered to do so too. Something I didn’t see as I was going up the ranks.

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Beautiful!

Of course, this is the hair that grew out of my head. I’m now 11 months loc’d and I’ll go a little while without a retwist so my hair gets pretty frizzy, but I make sure it still looks neat when I’m in the office. I believe nowadays a company would go through hell on social media if a black woman were to be confronted about her choice of hairstyle in the office

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Yes! I always sport my natural curls at work. They're beautiful and I love them, nobody can tell me otherwise.

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Yes ! Always changing it up. I have a co worker who doesn’t change it up , she feels she need to stay constant with a certain hairstyle so coworkers can recognize her. She is upper management, and that conversation rubbed me off in a wired way.

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That's unerving, how did yall end up having the conversation?

I've worn my natural hair (short natural cut) in corporate settings since 1996.

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I don't currently, I don't think my workplace could handle it

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What do you mean "could handle it?"

Yes, knotless and stitch braids.

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Love knotless braids

Yes, I wear my natural hair in a slick low bun from time to time.

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yes1 I don't have time to style, that's why. I just make a messy bun because my curls are so stubborn.

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I do now. But when I was younger I was self-conscious about it, sorry to say. Glad things are changing.

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Yes! I've recently eased into it after seeing women online rocking braids in their corporate attire. So beautiful and saves time in the morning. Hop into the trend!

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I do but not often. I tend to gravitate towards wearing wigs. My natural hair is about shoulder blade length and is heat damaged but not heat trained so I don’t have too many options (outside of braids because I’m tender-headed). Also a lot less maintenance.

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yes! box braids, crochet twists, fro out, weaves, etc etc. they can’t tell me nothing!

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I’d give all of my previous companies bits of pieces of my natural hair. I saw the looks that I got with it and I heard colleagues talking about other people’s hair negatively. So, I played the part to get ahead. But now, since I’ve been at Netflix, I can show up as myself unapologetically. They get all of this blackness & don’t bat an eye. It really depends on how diverse & accepting a company is from the top down.

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Yes! I’m a wash and go type of person. I just make sure my fade is on point and keep it moving. I wore my hair the same way in my interview so there’s no surprises. sad we have to do this just in case lameee

Yes. I wear my natural hair all the time because it’s mine lol but I have absolutely hesitated at the idea of wearing braids as a protective style (not just at work but in general).

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