HSM : Monique Coleman reveals that the crew didn't know how to style black hair

[hewontgo]

Monique Coleman reveals her 'High School Musical' character wore headbands because the crew didn't know how to style Black hair https://t.co/sXz2HuKpcT
- Entertainment Insider (@EntInsider) January 26, 2021
Monique Coleman, 40, came up with the idea for her character Taylor McKessie to wear a variety of headbands in the 2006 movie because the crew

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[spellmanian]

Monique Coleman, 40, is the most shocking part of this post to me

[genbu_no_miko24]

I always knew she was older but it was still a shock.

[rubie_dubidoux]

yeah I remember she was like 26 when the movies came out. which isn't THAT wild but I don't like to think about how the stars of the children's movies that were big when I was a teen are entering their 40s now D:

[lovepollution]

Unlike most actors playing teens, I'd honestly believe she was 16 (by that pic anyway, I've never seen High School Musical).

[juunanagou18]

amazing how black folks can work with damn near any hair type (i say damn near because...we've come a long way, too, lbr), but white people can't handle anything above 2A and see nothing wrong with that.

[genbu_no_miko24]

It is kinda ridic cause it's like "what did you go to beauty school for?" but then the problem starts right there.

[juunanagou18]

yep! i went to a trade school at the same time as HS and it was just amazing how they had all the students, no matter the color, working on straight-haired, white mannequin heads.

i remember wanting these thick, beachy waves (sorta how sza wore her hair at the beginning) for my senior picture and thought it would be easy to just walk in and ask for them. i already had thick, curly hair, how hard could it be? that stylist told me she'd have to straighten it and texturize it and i was like??? you can just use some old-school curlers?? maybe it was my ignorance showing but i really don't think i needed to go through all of that.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yeah same. I would notice the beauty courses would ONLY have white mannequin heads with straight hair. I don't remember seeing anything remotely afro-textured.

"Monique Coleman, 40"

[mikochin]

This is an attack.

[sabrina54]

It's like Black people are brand new, like how did you go to beauty school and know fuck all about the hair of half the human race??? Racism she is a cunt

[xellabelle]

This reminds me that I have a very old high school musical mug that I bought in like 2008 that I still use in the morning because it’s a really big mug for tea and back in March last year when we first started WFH I was on a zoom call with senior members of the company and started to take a sip of my tea and realised a giant Zac Efron jumping up was visible on my mug in the zoom call lol fml