"Reflecting my whole authentic self to the world" The Meeka Threatts "Omawali" S

To start of our Omawali project we will be featuring Meeka Threats and her Omawali - return home. Meeka shares candidly and with fearlessness her experiences with lupus and how that has impacted her natural transition.

"I have been bald due to alopecia as well as lupus for about 4 years now. My inspiration for eventually going bald was because I began to lose my hair and grew tired of hiding the bald spots that I had developed. I figured I was hiding behind myself when I didn’t fully embrace my baldness and wasn’t living in my truth of having little to no hair. The one thing that being natural has meant to me is the importance of reflecting my whole authentic self to the world. No one wants fragments of who a person is. Baldness helps me to have teachable moments and explain to people the life of living with lupus and alopecia. This confidence also helps women to be comfortable with themselves without hair although society tells us that we must have hair to be pretty." - Meeka Threats

For so many women like Meeka, going natural is more than just a change in hair styles or routine care products - this is an opportunity to open up new parts of themselves for the world to embrace.