kinky
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Bailey lets her displeasure be known by having a friend shave off her beautiful spray of kinky hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
“Portland, which used to be kinky and weird and a very liberal community, became a very dangerous community where people are no longer enjoying it,” he said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2022
Her hair remains stubbornly kinky and boisterously unruly; it’s political even if it’s simply meant to be pretty.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022
She, too, has seen how, over the past decade, there has been an extreme focus on encouraging women of African ancestry to celebrate their kinky, curly and coily hair texture.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
And while the beauty school lady was straightening my hair, I got to look at the big bank of mirrors and watch it transform from kinky to straight.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
The hair at the nape of the neck, which is typically shorter, kinkier and considered more difficult to style.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2023
If you have a kinkier, coarser hair texture, you can easily spend three or four hours on what we call “wash day.”
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2017
They are beyond square, which is to say that they are stranger, kinkier and more interestingly individual than David, Rose, Kenny or Casey.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2013
But just as a botanical insurrection seems imminent —a sort of “Rise of the Planet of the Azaleas” — things take a kinkier and daffier turn.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2012
Did he have Hope and Dell's loose curls or my tighter, kinkier hair?
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
