MANON: “Growing up in Switzerland, I always looked very different, Mostly all my life, I was the only Black girl in class and one of the only Black girls in the school. It was a struggle for me to embrace that [identity], and I got a lot of mean comments, especially in elementary school, about my hair. So I would only wear it in a bun, and I didn't really know how to take care of it that well. I started to braid my own hair because getting it braided in Switzerland is really expensive, and I couldn't afford that, I would just braid my hair [by watching YouTube] and try out different things. And in the beginning, I would literally sit in front of the mirror for like 14 hours braiding my hair. It looked really bad back then, but now I can braid my own hair.”