Ross then detailed how her “healing journey” began when she started loving her hair, a sentiment many of us with natural and textured hair have experienced (or have yet to). Her gallery, a timeline throughout her career and life since the 80s, shows the curls we know and love today as clearly having had gone through a lot, with limp, straight ends as a result of damage.

The post was clearly gearing up for something; Ross then went on to drop an Instagram photo of her gleaming bronzed (and naked) self sitting proud, announcing the launch of something the curly and afro-haired community never knew we’d been waiting for.

“PATTERN // my new hair care brand specifically for curly, coily, and tight textured hair.” she captioned the post. She said Pattern was “the result of 20 years of dreaming, 10 years in the making… and 2 years of working with chemists.”

PSA: Tracee Ellis Ross is launching a curly hair brand in just a few days