Widline Pyrame couldn’t find a doll that looked like her when she was growing up. “We didn’t really have Black dolls,” the Haiti native said. “We had white dolls. I wanted my hair to be just like my dolls. The dolls’ hair was straight.” As an adult in the United States, she mentored Black children while getting her degree in.
BROCKTON Widline Pyrame struggled with her hair until learning to embrace it.
As a child in Haiti, she turned to perm chemical treatments to make her kinky hair straight. It wasn t until later, when she moved to the United States, that she listened to a story about Black hair and felt empowered to stop altering her hair.
Now the owner of Brockton doll company Fusion Dolls, Pyrame has released a book called Angel s Hair Journey based on her life that also tells the story of how she started her business. After that (Angel) grew her hair to have locs and she started her mission for little girls to love their hair, she said about the book.
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Fusion Dolls is a multicultural toy company on a Mission to spread diversity awareness and promote self-love and acceptance.
Brockton, Massachusetts – January 15, 2021 – Everybody knows that little girls love their dolls. But sometimes, their dolls do little for their self-image. Imagine, most little girls of color have never owned a doll that looks like them – same skin color and same type of hair. Might they wonder why all dolls are white skinned with silky hair? This is often very confusing for a young girl, isn’t she good enough to have a doll that she can relate to?
Widline Angel Pyrame, as a child, did not have dolls that looked like her, she wanted her hair to be different. Her experience growing up led her on a Mission and she founded Fusion Hair Dolls as a result of her desire to bring realistic dolls to all children of the world. In the short period of only two years in business, they have sold over 2,000 dolls. Fusion Dolls believes in giving back to th
A local shopping guide for families
Boston is fortunate to have so much creative talent. Itâs on us to support them this season.
By Kara Baskin Globe Correspondent,Updated December 10, 2020, 1:07 p.m.
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This year, itâs even more essential to support small, independent businesses. Itâs soothingly mechanical to click over to Amazon and wait for a brown box to arrive â but thatâs not going to help the thousands of families around Boston whoâve poured their hopes into a small shop, a tiny studio, a lifeâs passion. Shop local isnât a hashtag; itâs a lifeline.