Model Stacey Louidor on How Exploring Hairstyles Has Built Her Confidence
Texture Diaries is a space for Black people across industries to reflect on their journeys to self-love, and how accepting their hair, in all its glory, played a pivotal role in this process. Each week, they share their favorite hair rituals, products, and the biggest lessons they’ve learned when it comes to affirming their beauty and owning their unique hair texture.
Model Stacey Louidor serves up regular beauty inspiration for her Instagram followers. One week in August saw her with her hair coiled above her head, then braided in a veritable wearable sculpture, then glowing with silver cowrie shells. “I must admit that having to only rely on my own two hands for this self-expression is forcing me to become a hair artist,” she wrote, “and I’m not mad about it.”
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Louidor, who has appeared on the Savage x Fenty runway, also uses her platform to speak out against fat phobia and flex her makeup skills, applying metallic eyeshadows and experimenting with lined lips. Her artist’s approach to beauty has been honed in recent years. Growing up in Port au Prince, Haiti, Louidor didn’t initially connect with her hair as a form of creative self-expression. “Personally I did not really care for my hair that much growing up. I was consuming Western media from a young age, so I thought nice hair meant long, flowing hair,” she says. At 13, she begged her aunt for a perm. “I remember the day so vividly. I was like, ‘I’m grown now, I’m old enough now,’” she says with a laugh. “Once I got it, I remember swinging my hair left and right and really feeling myself.”