When Zariah Taylor first stepped foot on Washington University’s campus her freshman year, her hair was in an Afro style.
At the time, she did not have a car, so she frequented campus stores for hair products to maintain her hairstyle, but she could not find products for naturally textured hair. She immediately decided to dreadlock her hair.
“I loc’d my hair while in school, because doing my hair every day just became a struggle,” Taylor said. “It seemed like it was a sacrifice through money or time [and it] was never enough to make me go get these supplies, so if I was going to go to the beauty supply, I had to walk there or catch the bus; that’s too much time for a college student.”…