Folahan Amudipe, known as Folahontas to her community of over 350,000 followers across her social-media platforms, has built a brand on her knowledge of natural hair, her personal hair journey , and how she takes care of her type-4 curls . But all the work she’d put into her hair over the past 15 years of being natural was disrupted when she recently visited a celebrity hairstylist at a Los Angeles salon for a silk press , a hair-straightening process for textured hair that involves washing the hair before blow-drying and flat-ironing it for a sleek and bouncy, straight and shiny finished look. It was Amudipe’s first silk press in more than a decade.

“I’m usually fine with heat styling and my hair reverting back okay,” she says. Amudipe posted a now-viral video on social media las

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