Singer Halsey seems to have taken a brief hiatus from her eclectic hair choices when she took to Instagram on Thursday to post a selfie showing off her naturally curly hair.
"Strawberry fields," the singer captioned the photo.
“CMON FRO!” an enthusiastic fan said.
The Thursday post, which has now garnered over one million likes, comes over a year after the “Without Me” singer faced scrutiny over her biracial identity after speaking up about natural hair products, as Blavity previously reported.
"I’ve been traveling for years now and it’s been so frustrating that the hotel toiletry industry entirely alienates people of color," she wrote on Twitter. "I can’t use this perfumed watered down white people shampoo. Neither can 50 percent of your customers. Annoying."
The since-deleted tweet left some people less than happy.
“You are one of the white people sweetie," one person responded, according to Fox News.
“No. I am Not." the songwriter replied.
She was also compared to Broadway musical character Annie back in 2018 when she posted a picture with her natural hair.
lil orphan annie!
— ????????????????Unity is our main problem (@Rise_Of_Man) August 11, 2018
Though the commenter accused her of cultural appropriation, the New Jersey native wasn’t too bothered. She tweeted out to a critic, “worked [very] hard for this.”
Worked v hard for this hahaha thank you ❤️ https://t.co/6ZPrhBAC02
— h (@halsey) August 11, 2018
The “Eastside” songstress has previously opened up to Playboy about being biracial.
"I look like a white girl, but I don't feel like one. I'm a black woman," she said. “It's been weird navigating that. When I was growing up, I didn't know if I was supposed to love TLC or Britney."
The 25-year-old has a Black father and a white mother.
“I'm proud to be in a biracial family, I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud of my hair," she said.
She acknowledged that while her father is Black, she is white-passing.
“I'm white-passing. I've accepted that about myself, and have never tried to control anything about Black culture that's not mine," she told Playboy.
The singer, born Ashley Frangipane, has accused rapper Iggy Azalea, a white Australian, of cultural appropriation.
“There’s a lot of people I wouldn’t put on my record," she told the Guardian. "Iggy Azalea — absolutely not. She had a complete disregard for black culture. Fucking moron. I watched her career dissolve and it fascinated me.”
The “Fancy” rapper didn’t seem too bothered by Halsey’s remarks.
“She’s young and I hope she learns maybe to be a bit less judgmental when she’s kind of in the same shoes,” Azalea told Australian radio show Smallzy's Surgery. “I’m sure she’s getting judged all the time as well by people who don’t really know her. So I think maybe it’d be good for her to try to be a little more empathetic to other people that are in the same situation.”
