Antonia Gentry stars as Ginny in Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia. Season 3 was released earlier this month.
Since its release, the show has been hugely popular, but one detail fans have increasingly noticed is the change in Ginny’s hair each season — and it is striking up viral conversations on TikTok.
So, Antonia decided to make her own TikTok explaining the whole situation: “Hello from my hotel room. Hi everyone. Thank you so much for watching Season 3 of Ginny & Georgia. I hope you’re enjoying it. I wanted to pop on here for a second and clear up a couple things. I’ve been seeing some very funny things circulating about my hair, so I just wanted to clear up some stuff,” she starts.
“My hair is not naturally straight. I don’t know who started that, or why anyone would believe that — I’m half Black. I didn’t get a perm to play Ginny, my hair is naturally curly. My mom has a beautiful afro. My dad has a wave to his head. So, I have tight curls. And also, I understand that, Ginny’s hair from Seasons 1, 2, and 3 is very, very different. So let me just explain…”
“Season 1, that is my natural hair. It’s my natural hair. Season 1…it was a little bit of a challenge for some people to work with my hair. So, you know, it was mostly my hair, but we had a little bit of heat damage in there. It randomly got bleached for no reason — and four inches got cut off.”
(Here is her hair in Season 1.)
“So, when we went into Season 2, I was like, ‘Hey, my hair got pretty damaged in Season 1. Can I get a wig?’ And they were like, ‘All right, bet. We’ll give you a wig.’ And I was like, ‘All right, bet, I’m getting a wig.’ There were two wigs for Season 2, and those two wigs were curled very interestingly, and it didn’t really work. It wasn’t working.”
“So for, like, half of Season 2, I’m in this wig that doesn’t really match my actual hair, it has no movement. And so we stopped using the wig, but in order for us to have it, it was like a continuity thing. They took a wand to my hair and curled each and every section of my hair to match the curl pattern of the wig. So my hair was put through heat every single day to match the pattern of the wig, which we ended up not even using the entire time because it didn’t look right. So that’s why there’s some interesting hair choices for Ginny in Season 2.”
(And here’s her hair in Season 2.)
“But Season 3, it’s my natural hair. It’s all my hair, except for the extensions, of course. And Ginny has long hair, and I had someone who did such an amazing job. We didn’t use any heat, we took care of it, we kept it moving, and I didn’t have to worry or stress out at any moment in the hair trailer. Shoutout, Stacy. So, yeah, my favorite hair moment for Ginny is Season 3, because that’s the healthiest my hair has ever been filming the show.”
(This is what Ginny’s hair looks like this season.)
“I hope that that clears up the mystery of my hair. It’s not naturally straight. I don’t have a perm, a curly perm. Obviously, I have a little bit of heat damage. My hair is styled all the time for work, and also, just personally, I like to switch it up.”
“When I was a kid, I had very tight, healthy curls — very full hair, and now I have a bit of heat damage, and my hair is a little bit thinner. We’re working on it. Take your vitamins… But I don’t have straight hair. I got curly hair. Okay, love y’all, bye.”
Antonia’s TikTok has nearly 14 million views — and people have a lot to say:
They mostly pointed out the obvious:
If you didn’t know, Kat Graham has said that showrunner, Julie Plec, wouldn’t bring in a hairstylist who knew how to work with Black textured hair. So Kat allegedly asked if she could just wear her natural hair instead, but was told no.
Anyway, people were bummed to find out that a streaming service as big as Netflix let this happen:
And overall, it is pretty apparent people prefer her natural hair (being styled by someone fit to style it):
Whatever hairstyle Ginny has next season, we know Antonia will rock it…and we are so happy she now seems to have a hairstylist fit to do her hair!
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