Founder Friday: Of course it's raining Homecoming weekend 🥲☔

Hey Hairbrella Family,

Spelman Homecoming is tomorrow — and apparently Atlanta decided to make the forecast very on-brand for me. 😂

100% chance of rain on Saturday. Of course.

If you’ve ever done Homecoming — especially at an HBCU — you know the hair is part of the assignment. Outfit, shoes, pictures… and then Atlanta humidity shows up like it bought a ticket too.

Every time I step back on Spelman’s campus, it takes me right back to where so much of this started.

As was customary, I was done with perms, learning to do my own silk presses, and completely unprepared for how Atlanta’s weather would test every bit of my hair journey. 😩

Because let me tell you — no umbrella, no plastic bag, and no plastic bonnet could save me.

If it was raining and I had to walk across campus?
My hair started swelling immediately… and by the time I got where I was going, it was done for.

After a while, I started to think I was cursed, because it rained every single time I got my hair done.

That frustration was real — but now, looking back, I see it for what it was:

Sometimes life’s little annoyances are really the universe nudging you toward something bigger.

I stumbled across this old screenshot of what was available back then. None of those “best selling rain hats” worked for textured hair, protected edges, or survived Atlanta humidity.

So I created what didn’t exist. 💫

And now? Fast forward to today — we’ve got women covered all over the world, from classrooms to commutes, sidelines to stadiums.

Fast-forward to tomorrow’s forecast and this feels very full circle.

If you’re headed to Homecoming, have the BEST time. Take the pictures. Hug your people. And please protect the hair. 😂

For everybody else, consider this your fall forecast reminder: the weather does not need permission to change, so your rain plan shouldn’t be “hopefully it doesn’t rain.”

Real rain. Real proof.

Homecoming always brings it full circle for me — a reminder that the storms we once dreaded can lead us right into our purpose.

Here’s to the rain that shaped us, the resilience that sustained us, and the ideas that carried us farther than we ever imagined. 💙

Rain or shine,
Tracey
Founder & CEO, Hairbrella

P.S. To my fellow Spelman/AUC sisters: have the BEST time this weekend. If Hairbrella makes it into the Homecoming fit, tag us — I want to see it. 🤩 IG: @hairbrella