Hair Care is Health Care
Xhey Butter Beauty is a socially conscious community intervention, formed as a business, to provide:
gender affirming hair care
in a psychologically safe environment
that adapts to clients’ sensory requirements, and
teaches folx how to care for their hair health independently
As a stylist, I accomplish this mission by collaborating with clients in consultations, conducting original research to build individualized treatment plans , and infusing styling appointments with education by modelling healthy practices and explaining each step toward appointment goals.
As an entrepreneur, my cosmetic products are Made by Hand, from the Land, combining ordinary ingredients with extraordinary benefits to create affordable products for people on the go. Clients who book consultations can request additional instruction in DIYing, or collaborate on planning and hosting a community workshop
As a workshop facilitator and hair science communicator, I lean deeply into my 13 years of teaching experience to design programming that is accessible to folx—regardless of age—encouraging them to take pride in their craft and experience joy in accomplishing goals they define. Goals that work toward gender euphoria, unmasking, and self reliance.
My role is to direct people to helpful information, translate complicated dynamics of hair and scalp health, and coach people to build confidence in DIY haircare. I support people growing their capacity to take full responsibility for their hair as a body part that needs nurturing and tailored treatments, inside and out. worth. Any standard built to place you last in a world where no one is perfect, is a lie we can work together to release you from.
Most importantly I teach people to stop apologizing for the trouble they’ve been groomed to believe they cause. From a young age, Black people are taught that their hair is difficult for other people to manage. Every single client I’ve had has apologized to me for the trouble. Stop it. Your hair & scalp are beautiful and resilient. You never need to feel ashamed of their state because the mere fact that you are still here means that your body mind and spirit survived whatever you had to push thru to arrive on this page. You hair may be matted, broken, or missing, but your are present, willing and able. Help me help you heal. There is no standard of beauty—there is only the beauty you hold within you. Maybe you’re just guarding it so tightly that you’ve hidden it from yourself. Your appearance does not determine your