In a clip from 'Red Table Talk', Willow Smith opens up about her personal hair journey, including an uncomfortable experience she encountered on a set:
. In a new episode of the Facebook Watch series—which is hosted by Willow Smith, her mother Jada Pinkett-Smith, and grandmother Adrienne Banfield Norris—airing today at 12 PM EST, the three women are joined by Tiffany Haddish and Yvonne Orji, both of whom discuss their own experiences navigating childhood, then adulthood in the entertainment industry, as Black women surrounded by white-focused beauty standards.
For Willow, that struggle was exemplified during what she describes as “a very high fashion photo shoot.” The hairstylist working on set was unaware of how to groom Black hair, and couldn’t execute a look for Willow. In the clip below, the “Transparent Soul” singer describes being forced to create her own hairstyle, and the discomfort and disappointment that came along with it.
“All of the white models were getting their hair done, they all had somebody,” she recalls. “The person that was supposed to come do my hair looked at it, and tried to do something to it, tried to touch it. They were just like, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing.’ That anxiety, looking at them in the mirror, not knowing what to do with my head, made me feel like, I’m going to take the reins on this. So I basically did my own hair for that really high fashion shoot. That should never be happening.
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