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Monique
Rodriguez
MADE BY MALIZ MAHOP
Each time a woman shares her life’s journey–the challenges and triumphs,
insecurities and setbacks, it heals and empowers another woman. Monique
Rodriguez opens up about how a tragedy that pushed her into her purpose
and allowed her to launch a successful hair care company, Mielle Organics.
MADE caught up with Monique to discuss how she started Mielle Organics
and the journey of turning her trials into triumph…
M and evaluating why is that and
how do we fix that.
MADE: How do you combat
that misconception? How
can someone grow their hair if
that’s what they desire?
Monique: I think one of the
most common misconcep-
tions is that African Ameri-
cans can’t grow long hair. It’s
been instilled in us for centu-
ries that we can’t grow healthy
hair and instead of sitting back Monique: I would say that’s
where the education part
comes in. Number one, you
have to understand how the
body functions and know
that your hair does grow, but
when you continue to put
chemicals and things in your
hair—damaging items such as
glue and not properly taking
ADE:
You
started
Mielle
Organ-
ics on a mission to educate
women to have healthy hair on
Instagram. What is one of the
most common misconception
about growing healthy hair?
#mademaven
care of your hair when have
protective styles—that’s when
your hair starts to break off.
That’s when your hair starts to
come out. That’s why I use my
platform to continue to ed-
ucate African Americans on
how to properly take care of
our hair. Not getting trims on
a regular basis causes your hair
to break and causes your ends
to continue to split. Once you
develop a good regimen—
deep condition regularly, have
a healthy diet and drink a lot
of water regularly, your hair
will grow.
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