I n 2004, a Chinese woman named Xie Qiuping won the Guinness World Record for the longest human scalp hair at 5.627 meters—the length of an adult male giraffe!While this is an anomaly, humans are the ...

Hair can be curly, straight, thick, thin, brown, black, blonde, or auburn. It can be long or short, frizzy or lush. While the huge diversity in our genes and environments makes it a no-brainer ...

Three men in Otavalo, Ecuador, with braids. Photographer Irina Werning's long-term project on long hair in Latin America took her to the Kichwa community for its final chapter.