Love Your Curls. Love Your Beauty.

Dove has launched this really beautiful campaign about loving curly hair- now I'm sure not all of you have curly hair (that would be really unlikely), but I think the idea of this runs deep in all of us despite what your hair's natural texture. The idea of embracing your natural beauty and being comfortable in your skin I think is message that we don't hear from the media generally... which I have talked about a lot so I won't really go into that.On a very personal level- it is heart wrenching to watching the young women at the beginning of Dove's campaign that talk about their hair and how they wished they didn't have curls. I can attest to the idea that seeing my mother in her curls and seeing her beauty when I was a young child, that I loved the idea of having curly hair and looking like her. It was a great thing when I look back on the younger time in my life.What happened though as I got older grew into the horribly awkward stages of middle school and then the unpopular years of high school is the fact that I noticed my mother was the only woman I saw who had... or embraced her curly hair. There was no other picture of curls being beautiful around me. On top of that- neither my mother or I had any idea that curly hair has different needs for care than straight hair and needs to be cut, washed, dried, and just overall treated a little different.All of this to say- I believe this is a great, great, great campaign that shows all the different textures of curls and hair and how all of those women are beautiful with their unique curls. We need more women embracing their natural beauty. I have a theory that if we are surrounded by women embracing their own unique beauty then we will be more empowered to embrace our own beauty and our young women (and guys of course) will be empowered as well.