Re-Emergence
This title represents the strength and courage it can take to break free and “re-emerge” from our past and situations that can hold us back and negatively influence us.
Ellie is 29 years old. Ellie shared with me, her experiences of bullying she encountered that started as far back as grade school because of her red curly hair. It didn’t help matters that she went to an Italian school, and her “look” was notably different. It bothered her to the point that in about grade 6, she started having her hair straightened. Other than a brief period in her life, she never went back to her natural curls. In 2019, during COVID and working from home, she decided to let her hair grow back curly for a brief time. She did however make a decision to go back to straightening it. Luckily, she took a picture of that time and when she contacted me about my 2% Project, she sent a picture of herself with straightened hair and one from 2019 with her natural curly hair. In our initial get together for this project, she mentioned that she thought straightening would eventually train her hair, but that never worked and she commented she was “stuck with curly hair”. During that conversation I told her how striking I thought her naturally curly hair was and asked if she would let it go natural for the photo shoot. Thankfully, she agreed.
I’m happy to say she has now decided to keep her natural curls. Getting to know her over the past number of weeks, I really can’t envision her with anything other than her beautiful natural curls.
Please check out her other pictures in my Ellie album.
Re-Emergence
This title represents the strength and courage it can take to break free and “re-emerge” from our past and situations that can hold us back and negatively influence us.
Ellie is 29 years old. Ellie shared with me, her experiences of bullying she encountered that started as far back as grade school because of her red curly hair. It didn’t help matters that she went to an Italian school, and her “look” was notably different. It bothered her to the point that in about grade 6, she started having her hair straightened. Other than a brief period in her life, she never went back to her natural curls. In 2019, during COVID and working from home, she decided to let her hair grow back curly for a brief time. She did however make a decision to go back to straightening it. Luckily, she took a picture of that time and when she contacted me about my 2% Project, she sent a picture of herself with straightened hair and one from 2019 with her natural curly hair. In our initial get together for this project, she mentioned that she thought straightening would eventually train her hair, but that never worked and she commented she was “stuck with curly hair”. During that conversation I told her how striking I thought her naturally curly hair was and asked if she would let it go natural for the photo shoot. Thankfully, she agreed.
I’m happy to say she has now decided to keep her natural curls. Getting to know her over the past number of weeks, I really can’t envision her with anything other than her beautiful natural curls.
Please check out her other pictures in my Ellie album.