Dear Vogue, Little Girls Wore Natural Hair Long Before North West

The following is an excerpt from "No, North West Isn't the Reason Why Little Girls Are Wearing Their Natural Hair" by Brittany Dawson, which was originally featured on Coloures.

Black hairstyles rock. From permed fauxhawks and poetic justice braids to other beautiful updos, there isn't a style around that's missing from the International Bank of Black Hair. Trust me, we've got it all. But more recently, there has been an overwhelming embrace of the natural hair community.

Black women are no longer being bombarded with one-sided representations of Black hair. The visibility of celebrities rocking their natural 'fros — like Issa Rae and Solange, for instance — highlights the power in visibility, diversity, and reclaiming Black hair as an act of resistance. Black women are proudly chucking chemicals, favoring bouncy curls and Bantu knots.

Sadly, the natural hair buzz reached Marjon Carlos at Vogue this month, inspiring the writer to pen an essay titled "How North West's Curly Styles Are Inspiring a Generation of Natural Hair Girls." Let it also be known that Carlos is also a Black woman who proudly wears natural hair, adding a unique twist to this story. The essay basically crowns North West the Queen of Natural Hair. Yup. Readers are given the impression that North West started the natural hair movement.

Sorry KimYe stans, but North West is not the Messiah of the natural hair movement.