It was the fall of 2016, it was midterms week, and Miona Short ’18 was grieving the devastating loss of her grandfather — the last thing she wanted to do was her hair. As both a First Wave scholar and a scientist studying astrophysics, Short tapped into her creativity and her ingenuity to develop a solution that would change her hair care and, later, her life: the Carefree Comb.
“The Carefree Comb was born out of a profound grief,” Short says, “but it was a kernel of joy, a kernel of hope, and a kernel of relief in that grief.”
The Carefree Comb is a wide-toothed comb that contains and distributes hair product as it detangles, condensing multiple steps of a routine into one. Six years later, after Short was laid off from her job at a health care technology company, the Carefree Comb once again provided an inventive solution in the face of misfortune when Short founded her hair-care company, Shukrah.
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