This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Oprah Winfrey's hair is an amazing and ever-changing object of design.

A quick Google image search of her and you can see it in a dozen different styles.

But there's a consistency too. A brand, a familiarity.

Like if you took Oprah's face out of all those Google images,

so that all you could see was a series of pictures of hair, you'd still know it was her.

And even though she's done weaves and braids and all sorts of styles,

she's also a natural, meaning she doesn't use chemical relaxers to try to straighten her hair.

And that's actually something Oprah and I have in common.

That's producer Lila Day from the Stoop podcast,

which is about stories from across the Black Diaspora.

And since I'm a white guy with very little hair,

I'm actually going to hand this one entirely over to her now.

Oprah gives most of the credit for her amazing natural hair

to one person.

This is Andre Walker who's done my hair for 18 years.

And I've been through some really good styles

and a couple of bad years.

But right now we're doing the most of what they've been really good.

They've been really good. You've done amazing jobs.

I think it's a very difficult thing to do.

That's why you need the same person who knows your hair doing it all the time as well.

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