



The other thing I noticed is when a teenage girl did it for free, it was usually because they were interested in the other person.” “So, I hope readers pull the chemistry I was trying to show in a practice that's so normal to Black culture, yet so tender,” continues Ebony. I was and still am a horrible braider, but other girls would braid a guy’s hair or take their braids out, and taking out someone’s braids is really a labor of love, in my opinion. “I had long, thick hair growing up and a lot of teenage boys with longer hair would ask me if I could braid theirs. “This scene was one of the first scenes that came to mind as I began writing Love Radio – and it was influenced by many things,” Ebony tells Teen Vogue.
