Read Leena_Eats's essay on going gray starting at 16 due to racist bullying: 'I had no idea that racist interactions would drain the color from my hair. And never could I have imagined my adult self would start the healing process by choosing brightness'
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I had hoped high school would be different. Instead, strangers and acquaintances alike would hurl racial epithets at me on the regular. I’d divulge to a few close friends. “Oh, Leena, stop being so paranoid! No one is talking about you!” they’d always respond. I would have given anything to have just one teacher in school defend me or explain what was happening.
Bright colors felt like a homecoming. Each subsequent trip to the salon resulted in more color, graduating to fully bleaching and dyeing the bottom half of my hair with highlights and gray coverage at the top, shades of candy-apple red and the most vivid violet.published in January 2020 by a Harvard stem-cell scientist who investigated Marie Antoinette syndrome, or premature graying, named after the French queen whose hair went completely white the night before she was killed at the guillotine.
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