'I Created A Doll To Help Black Girls Learn To Love Their Natural Hair'

‘I Created A Doll To Help Black Girls Learn To Love Their Natural Hair’
Paige Tutt, Photographed By Danielle Daly Styled by Mia Katoh
© Danielle Daly and Styled by Mia Katoh - Hearst Owned
The entrepreneur and founder of the Healthy Roots doll explores what it means to care for natural hair and the changes she hopes to see in the beauty industry.
Entrepreneur Yelitsa Jean-Charles,
CEO and Founder of Healthy Roots Dolls, distinctly remembers two pivotal moments during her childhood when she saw her hair as magical. The first: Brandy’s 1997 portrayal of
Cinderella.
"I would regularly watch Brandy as Cinderella and think she was so beautiful. Brandy had the braids. She was always on point,” she says."But for most of my life I didn’t feel that way [about my hair] and I often pushed back against the braided hairstyles that my mother would take so much time doing with my hair because I was like

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