This Game-Changing Tip From Beyonce’s Braider Will Extend Your Cornrows

I spent a lot of the summer and early fall living my best stitch braid life thanks to my incredible, show-stopping braider, Brittney J. I’m pivoting to knotless braids for the winter but WILL be referencing this guide when I inevitably return to cornrows in the new year.

I’ve thinking a lot about friendship and this excerpt really hit me in the chest —

There are so many incredible performances—for example, Charleen McClure, who plays Mack as both a teenager and an adult. How did you cast her?

She’s a friend in my life. I’ve known her for a decade, and she’s a poet as well. We were in the park one day, and I just saw it. I needed faces that could express without needing to say dialogue, but through the body, through silence, through how they’re looking. And practically, her face holds many years, which this role was calling for, because it’s Mack from late teens to early thirties. I believe the foundation of our friendship allowed us to go to very honest and vulnerable places.