Gabrielle Union
In March 2017, Gabrielle Union launched her own haircare line called Flawless. The concept? To provide quality products that would allow women with textured hair “to have great hair days.” Union opened up to her Instagram followers that year about coming to terms with her own natural hair. “Around 25 years old, I stopped using relaxers and slowly grew my natural hair out,” she revealed. “It’s been a helluva hair journey.”
Chatting with WWD in 2017, Union revealed: “I went through a phase where I would leave my relaxer on so long, thinking the longer I leave this relaxer on, the straighter it’s going to be,” she said. “Cut to lesions, like open wounds in my scalp, trying to chase something that was unrealistic, and eventually probably in my mid- to late-20s I decided to give up my relaxer, and I went natural.” But Union is also adamant that everyone’s individual hair journey is “amazing, valid, worthwhile and beautiful, no matter what.” Well said, Gab. Well said.
