Cutting black boys’ hair amounts to nothing powerful ... And throwing shade on the black cultural aesthetic rather than on the actual systems that put black folks in peril is telling.

Remember scene kids? Skater bois? Pop punk and emo music, and the black and pink-heavy aesthetic that accompanied it? E-boys are all of the above, but make it fashion and Extremely Online.

Her work has explored the rise of TikTok, internet aesthetics ... will almost never be wearing her natural hair color (lime green, pink, or half-black, half-white hair are popular shades) and ...

In the video, Ngugi explains that she feels like her natural, type-four hair doesn't go with the ... the throughline that connects every Black beauty aesthetic that has emerged since then.