Sharam Diniz
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Sharam-Sharam da Conceição Diniz, professionally known as Sharam Diniz, is an Angolan-Portuguese fashion model and businesswoman. She is known for her appearances in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
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[edit]I started relaxing my hair when I was five years old. The texture of my natural hair was so painful to manage that I remember crying every single time someone would try to braid it. One day, my auntie — who had her own hair salon at the time in Angola — told my mother, “Listen, maybe the easier thing to do is relax her hair.”
- Why Shaving My Head Was The Best Decision I've Made; By Sharam Diniz retrieved on April 25, 2018, 7:00 PM
I always wanted long, straight hair and I could never have it. When I looked at covers of magazines when I young, I didn't ever see a Black girl rocking an Afro, so I became obsessed with the hair I saw on TV and in music videos and magazines
- Why Shaving My Head Was The Best Decision I've Made; By Sharam Diniz retrieved on April 25, 2018
I was 17 when I entered a modeling competition and ended up winning. Soon after, I moved to Portugal— I’m half-Portuguese — because I knew the fashion industry in Europe was more developed than in Angola
- Why Shaving My Head Was The Best Decision I've Made; By Sharam Diniz, retrieved on April 25, 2018
Shaving all my hair off has been something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Seeing so many beautiful and bold women, like Maria Borges and Lupita Nyong’o, rocking their natural texture and forcing the industry to accept what natural beauty is made the decision easier. It felt like the time for me to make a change. I wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone of long, “feminine” hair and from what people were always expecting to see me as
- Why Shaving My Head Was The Best Decision I've Made; By Sharam Diniz, retrieved April 25, 2018
