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Leomie Anderson Shares the Black Model Hair Struggle

Runway veteran, Leomie Anderson shares a day in the life of a runway model and the beauty struggle backstage.
5 Things In Leomie Anderson's 'Black Model Survival Kit'
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By Virginia Lowman · Updated October 27, 2020

Enlish beauty, runway veteran and former star of reality show, The Model Agency, Leomie Anderson runs a lively blog called Cracked China Cup in which she chronicles her favorite things and her life as a model. She also shares the hair struggles she faces as a black model backstage in a comical reenactment that questions why some stylists still try to put water on model’s hair to get it to “lay down.” 

See the graft behind the glamour for us models during fashion week in my latest vlog, link in bio and if in 2015 you as a hairdresser don’t know that water makes black hair go curly/ frizzy please quit xx

A video posted by Leomie Anderson (@leomieanderson) on Sep 25, 2015 at 12:58am PDT