There are charts that determine how curly or coarse one’s hair is and dedicated aisles in stores now that contain “ethnic” hair products. Several users immediately slammed Halsey for the tweet because they either assumed she was white or could just buy a bottle of shampoo to take with her to hotels. In 2014, writer Jenée Desmond-Harris answered a question for the Root about why America’s hotels don’t provide hair products for black as well as white hair? Her point was that the shampoo is aimed more towards white people hair which is usually less thicker and curly. I stayed in a psychiatric hospital as a teenager and they didn’t have hair products for any patients who were POC.

Source: Washington Post April 30, 2018 09:47 UTC