"Why did they kill Miss Aquitaine's afro like that?"
"," I would like the Miss France committee never to touch afro hair again "," Miss Aquitaine's sabotaged afro, I will never forgive ".
Saturday December 11, during the Miss France 2022 election won by Diane Leyre, one of the candidates found herself in top trend on Twitter.
Not for his performance but for his hairstyle which would have been "sabotaged" during the second part of the show in prime time.
Seeing Miss Aquitaine's afro in this state tears my heart apart # MissFrance2022 pic.twitter.com/FhUQHKhhCh
- mel / (@lessuhiscestdeg) December 11, 2021
A dissatisfaction that the 5th runner-up Ambre Andrieu “understands”.
During an interview with Le Parisien, the 22-year-old engineering student explains: “The hairstyle that I chose with the hairdresser was not this one.
It had to be the same as the swimsuit photoshoot.
But I put all my energy during the prime with the choreography, I danced too much and with the hairspray from the day before, the lights, the gravity… My hair sagged.
"
If she admits that she would have liked "to be warned", she is also lucid about the course of the evening, broadcast live. “Everyone was focused on their thing, we had very little time behind the scenes to prepare. This is also why we had chosen this hairstyle, it was to make it easier to tie them for the second part of the show ”and specifies that the hairdresser dedicated to all the Miss with textured hair (curly, curly, frizzy ...) was doing her job, alone. “I couldn't afford to ask for five more minutes for my hairstyle. She had to be able to take care of all of us equally. (…) It doesn't mean that my hair is more complicated. It just means they need a little more time. "
“Afro hair is beautiful.
We have to accept it, everyone has to accept it.
We must celebrate it "
However, Ambre takes advantage of this story to talk about a "much deeper problem": "too often, whether in the world of modeling, make-up and in the image professions in general, there is a lack of people competent to style textured hair "and admits that she would have been the first to" take offense "if she had seen on television" a sabotaged afro hairstyle ".
She herself says she had a "complicated relationship" with her hair when she was a child and "would have liked to see afro, natural hair on TF1" because she "needed" it.
A controversy that recalls another.
In 2017, we found the same complaints from viewers on social networks when Miss Martinique paraded on TF1 with completely straightened hair.