It’s no secret that afro and curly hair can be very complex to navigate around. Methods to manage it have evolved so much, from the box braids to dreadlocks and afro shape-ups, found in drawings, engravings and hieroglyphs from Ancient Egypt. They’ve built a very rich ‘hair-ritage’. For diaspora children, a lot of our parents didn’t always have the resources for Black Hair as easily accessible, which resulted in finding alternatives to navigate around our textured hair. After centuries of trial, error and research, we are starting to realise that those alternatives and traditional methods which we’ve been conditioned to believe in, may not always be good, useful or progressive for the health of our hair and scalp and we are here to debunk it. Opinions do differ in this overly-scrutinised-but-under-researched hair texture. We have rounded-up some of the biggest Black hair myths directly from the experts below....