Like many women of colour around the world, Pacific Island women and girls often grow up thinking their hair isn’t beautiful in its natural state. It’s common for European beauty standards to colour self-perception, and many women go to great lengths to alter or ‘tame’ their natural hair. But a movement to decolonise hair is spreading across the region, and women from Papua New Guinea to Fiji are celebrating and having fun with their hair, and in doing so reclaiming their ancestry and their identity.