By India Espy-Jones ·Updated July 26, 2024 < />
“How many times a month do you get a silk press?” Keke Palmer asked Vice President Kamala Harris on her podcast last year. “I don’t use a curling iron; its too much heat. I use a round brush,” she responded. Now, with Harris running for president amid President Biden’s withdrawal, the sound is going viral with over 250,000 likes on TikTok. Following jokes about “Kamala-mandated” silk presses and boar-bristle brush pin-curl tutorials, her flipped ‘50s hairdo has turned into election season’s favorite hair moment.
Her secret? Unlike a typical silk press, which commonly uses heat as high as 450 degrees, Harris uses a round boar-bristle brush to blow out her hair and avoid heat damage. “It takes a lot of heat [for a silk press], but it’s just too much to do that and [a hot tool],” she told Palmer.
US Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at West Allis Central High School during her first campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 23, 2024. Harris is in Wisconsin to start her presidential campaign after effectively clinching the Democratic presidential nomination. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
We’ve seen the look on Queen Latifah (who joked with Harris in a sketch at the 55th NAACP Image Awards) and a bob version on famous content creator Nara Smith, pushing the fall/winter silk press season up a few months despite the threat of heat and humidity. For Harris, however, her hair rel=”tag”>black presidential candidates kamala harris silk press
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