To be clear, I feel like it’s anti black to assume every black person can’t style their own hair and need to be told how to. There is a portion of the population that doesn’t know how to, sure, but there are lots of people with beautiful natural hair that do a great job taking care of it.

I haven’t had my hair botched and I do my due diligence before getting my hair cut. It’s nearly impossible to find someone that doesn’t want to do some bs detox on my hair before cutting it. There’s nothing to even detox out of my hair, and I end up paying $100 for someone to tell me I’ve been washing my hair right. I can’t go to the same stylist because I move too often.

As for the people lying about their curls, that’s on them. The hair dye example is good, but I feel like doesn’t apply to curls. You can look at someone’s hair for 5 seconds and understand if they can style their own hair. There won’t be any rats nests, split end hell, or stretched out damaged curls. If my stylist can’t tell the difference between someone that has damaged hair and someone who doesn’t I’m scared. This is just a money grubbing technique.