Welcome back to Sister Circle Live. Our next guests are on a mission to get young people everywhere to embrace their natural hair and stand up for their right to redefine what beauty is to them. Absolutely. Please welcome the creator of the Melanon and Coil's natural hair show, Anthony and also her daughter Scarlett. What? She's a Ron in the white, but that's what she's saying. She's a Ron Anthony. She's a Ron nice to me. You're a thank you so much for joining us here at the Sargento. Thank you for joining us. This is awesome. Absolutely beautiful people. So let's talk about this natural hair movement. I mean, you know, my daughters are natural. They embrace their beautiful hair. My daughters like I want my hair big and curly for a birthday party except similar to the fourth, fourth seed. But a lot of people are still slow to come over to the other side. And I have, I've told with it too. I get it. You know, so why do you think they're still a lag in the movement? But it's been great too. It's been a boom. I see the shift. I see the shift. That's a matter of fact. Recently, I went into a DMV. There were about 18 employees in there, black women, and all of them were rocking their nonsensical hair. It blew me away. It took me back a little bit. I was like, whoa. I was so inspired. But one of the things that happens when you wear your hair natural as a black person, you get dismissed a little bit. I think now, because there's a movement and we're seeing more and more of us wearing our hair natural, now I think more people when they see us walk down the street, they're like, she's bad. Right. Look at her rocking it. You know, but they're slow. Some of our old schoolers, some of our old school, mothers, grandmothers, aunties, they still teach their kids. This is one thing I was told. Now you're ready to go to church or now you're ready for Easter because I've finished your hair. First year. You're here. You know, I have four daughters and I teach them all. You're ready. See this info right here? Okay. As long as you're out fished straight, you're ready. You're ready. And let's go. Yes. Yes. You talked about the idea of what we grew up thinking. You know, you're hair is pressed. You have a person called me in a jar or whatever. You're ready. And we still see this in mainstream right now in the mainstream industry, just telling us, you know, what's appropriate to wear in a workplace or what's appropriate for our children or where it's school. Why is it important for us to address those issues and have them to see us in our natural beauty? I mean, it is very important that we take a stand as a people just like they do. We are the most dominant race that compromises on who we are. Yeah. Now, we're very versatile. So one day we might have our hair in an Afro when another day in a press or we might wear a wig. We're just versatile and creative like that. But I want us to get to where we don't let anybody else because they're not compromising on who they are. And we have to look at that. We have to look and say, oh, you're not compromising on who you are. I'm sorry. I'm going to say, as a matter of fact, I'm not sorry. I'm going to stay who I am. Yeah. And if I want to rock my hair like this with some bentoos on the side, if I want to rock the bentoos all over or if I want to wear a straight wedge. Whatever I want to do, I just go ahead and do it. And I'm going to be proud to be black. I can't apologize for who I am. Right. Because then I can't live out my purpose. If you really know who you are, you can live your purpose and you can really be a blessing. They're blessing that God meant for you to be to other people's lives. Right. Right. And you're blessing to your daughters. And one of them is here. Yeah. Let's talk about how you embraced this hairdryer. And talk a little bit about how you began. Well, I was natural all my life. We never had perms or anything like that. But my mom, she just kind of let us ease into what we like to do with our hair. Like, yeah. I started doing my afros in around sixth, seventh grade. And I noticed how people were not used to sing ourselves. We're not used to sing our peers rocking their natural hair and being bold in it. So our first people were like, oh, okay. And then they saw how I wasn't letting anybody say anything. Like if they would say something, I'll be like, well, that looks bad on your part. Right. But because you were bullied in school, though. Yeah. Because of my hair. Yeah. They would, and like, I would see bullying through other girls too, doing myself. Like when you see other girls for doing their natural hair, you see how their shunned. And it's just kind of like, oh, like, I don't. That's me right there. Right. Did it make you fearful when you when you decided to jump out there and say, you know, this is where I am? Yeah. At first, but then my mom, she, she's very intelligent. Yes, she is. She told you that I had a lot of fun. Yeah. She really helped us to know our history and where we come from, our natural hair represents our past, our present and our future. Absolutely. And speaking of which, Melan and Coil's natural hair show was inspiration behind creating this amazing space for us. I had to do something about what I was seeing and not saying, like, I would go to fashion shows and I'm like, okay, that's cute. But I needed something. I needed, well, I needed to give a stage to our Melan and kids. Kids with various textures of hair. And I affectionately refer to them as our disputed beauties. That's the motto on Melan and Coil Hills. And so I just wanted to provide a stage where we celebrate them on September 7th. And when I tell you they rock in the stage, I'm rocking my runway. Every segment is creative and over the top, we even have a social justice segment. Yes. So it's powerful. Good, good. I know. So are you. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having us. Yes, and living out your dream. And thank you for being a supporter of the show as well. Oh, I love you. I love you. You know what I said? She loves it, huh? We just don't see her. I always love it. I always love it. All right. To get more information about the Melan and Coil's natural hair show, please follow Shurron on Instagram at Melan and Coil's ATL. Thank you so much, ladies, for being with me. Thank you all for being with us. Thank you so much, guys. StarLay.