Tia Mowry found fame in “Sister Sister” alongside her twin, Tamera. In the show, the twins often had straightened hair — as Mowry later told InStyle, all of the heat styling ruined her natural curl pattern. It was only years later that she felt confident enough to start embracing her natural curls.
“I started to see this incredible movement where natural hair was being celebrated and being embraced,” she said. “This was amazing, because for so long I felt like my natural hair wasn’t being celebrated. I did not see it in magazines. I did not see that being depicted as beautiful.”
However, getting her hair back into a healthy state took a long time. She had to use hair accessories to hide her hair and eventually had to chop it all off. Plus, she used a lot of products. “I was nurturing my hair, I started to put oils in it — natural oils from coconut oil, jojoba oil, putting in the leave-in conditioners, and just really monitoring what I’m putting on my hair and my scalp to help it grow,” she said. Now, it’s finally back to its healthy, curly self.