"For a while I didn't want to (cut my hair off) because I was so brainwashed into thinking that my hair had to be straight. I was so into fitting the traditional standard of beauty and not really accepting myself. It was a shock because when I initially went natural I though my hair would look like Tracee Ellis Ross, but that wasn't the case... But that's ok because I've learned to embrace the way my hair grows out of my scalp." - Deena
www.essence.com/hair
https://www.instagram.com/deenacampbell/
director: EMILIANO STYLES
producer: SHONDRIKA MOSS-BOULDIN, PhD
director of photography: CYRUS HAWTHORNE
editor: NAIMA GOLD
music: TREY HEMINGWAY
*Shot on location in Harlem, New York