Just For Me, Creme of Nature, Dark & Lovely: For Black women, these relaxer brands likely bring up memories of chemical aromas, pressed roots and a girlhood coiffure nostalgia. And while the ...

You see it every couple of weeks. Creeps up on you unsuspectingly leaving you in a frizz. Curly and thick, it’s hard to part, needs constant moisture and looks completely different from the rest of ...

Washing your hair is a relaxing ritual, but the long drying time can feel like an eternity, especially if you rely on a hair dryer or diffuser, which is the case for most of us. For those with curly ...

Long before I went natural, when I was still enamored by the slickness of my new relaxed edges, I still I had a healthy fear of perms. The smell, the burning, the panic that set in when they’d sat too ...

Julia Coney, 36, can still remember her first chemical burn. She was a teenager, and she'd been getting her hair straightened since she was 8. In the early days, her mother used to take her to a ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Here's the thing, though: Getting your hair relaxed by a professional is typically the best option, ...

The dead-straight hairstyles that multiple Black women rocked throughout the ‘00s have slowly but surely been usurped by natural hair. Among millennials in particular there has been a shift as the ...

About 3 and a half years ago, Lynn Whitfield stopped relaxing her hair for the second time. “I didn’t even know what my real hair felt like,” says actress Lynn Whitfield in this episode of “My Mane ...

Growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood in the late 1990s, Traccye Love wished for the long, smooth tresses of pop star Aaliyah. “That was the look then — smooth and straight,” said Love, of Oak ...

I often feel sad when I see a little girl crying because her hair is painful when being combed. This is the reason why some mums relax their daughters’ hair even at a very tender age. Almost every ...