Hello, hello this is Brooke Devard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty

podcast. This episode is a topic near and dear to my heart because the

relationship that black women have with our hair is so special.

Now I can't speak to other races with hair.

I only know my own.

But the fact that we can do so much, that in itself makes our relationship to hair special.

We can go from braids to an afro to a sew-in, to a roller set, to a pixie cut.

It's just magical.

Now, the relationship with our hair

isn't always easy or straightforward.

I feel like the road is filled with trials and tribulations

and some poor experiences along the way.

But that also helped to inspire my very first product, which if you follow me you all know,

but that idea of having poor hair experiences inspired my very first product. It's the first product that I've

sold totally independently under Naked Beauty, my retro heatless hair rollers. They were

designed to solve a problem and a pain point with elegance. All of the flexi rods on the market

were not only hideous, you were bound to wake up with a sore neck, perm rods gave inconsistent

results. I tried various silk rollers on the market. They did not work for my textured

hair. And I also just feel so strongly as someone who has slept in flexi rods in the past,

no beauty products should compromise your sleep. Like that is something that we should not even have to deal with.

Furthermore, I don't think you should ever feel embarrassed in the process of getting ready. That's why I wanted to create these

heatless hair rollers that felt very chic in retro. I kept looking at all of these

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