Keke Palmer says a facialist accidentally removed her baby hairs from her forehead

• On Sunday, Keke Palmer took to Instagram with a video of her glowing skin after getting a facial.
• Palmer said that her facialist accidentally removed baby hairs from her forehead during the appointment.
• In the caption of her video, Palmer added that she was "devastated" by the mistake.
• As Princess Gabbara wrote for Ebony in 2019, baby hairs — also known as edges — are "small, fine-textured hairs that sit along the hairline," and are "most commonly found among women of color with textured hair."

Things didn't go as planned when Keke Palmer got a skin-care treatment over the weekend.

On Sunday, the actress took to Instagram with a video of her newly glowing skin after she received a facial. Unfortunately, however, Palmer said in her video and caption that while she loved the results of her treatment, she was "devastated" to see that her facialist had removed baby hairs from her forehead in the process.

"I just got a facial from this lady," Palmer said in her video. "My skin was acting up, it was acting up again, and I love a facial. As you see, the skin is glowing. I mean, woah."

"I have a lot of hair on my skin that contributes to me having acne, trying to tweeze it, trying to get rid of it, whatever, so she did I guess a dermaplaning technique," Palmer said, referencing a skin-care method that requires a dermatologist or licensed professional to exfoliate by scraping the surface of your skin with a surgical blade.

"It was amazing," she continued. "She got all up in there, removed a lot of that hair, you know, was really getting in good. But when she was getting the hair, getting my little fur beard lightweight, she ended up also getting my baby hairs. My baby hairs! She took 'em! Oh, wow."

Baby hairs often play an important role in natural hairstyles

As writer and editor Princess Gabbara wrote for Ebony in 2019, baby hairs — also known as edges — are "small, fine-textured hairs that sit along the hairline," and are often slicked down with gels and pomades. According to her report, they're "most commonly found among women of color with textured hair."

While there are numerous ways to style baby hairs, many modern looks can be traced back to the 1970s when famous musicians and dancers popularized them, according to Gabbara.

That being said, baby hairs have also been widely appropriated over the years. In 2017, for example, Lucy Hale posted a photo of herself wearing slicked baby hairs on Twitter, writing: "The time my baby hairs came to good use at a shoot."

At the time, she was swiftly criticized for appropriating Black and Latina culture.

Hale later responded to the criticism in a tweet, saying: "Sorry guys--I would never mean to offend anyone. Honestly, my bad. I wasn't thinking."

More recently, YouTuber Jeffree Star paired laid edges with dreadlocks when appearing in a campaign for his makeup line. Both Twitter users and fellow YouTubers questioned his hairstyle choice, especially because he's been criticized for wearing similar styles in the past.

Representatives for Keke Palmer did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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