The 2000s "natural hair movement" was transformative. For me, I never knew what my natural hair really looked like until college, when I fully began wearing my curls and started seeing more natural ...

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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 ...

It’s a common story that when women are going through a serious life change, they change their hair as well. It could be a breakup, the end of a friendship, the death of a loved one or the simple ...

While many Black women across the globe are embracing their natural kinky and coily texture, there is one thing that they still want to be sleek and straight: their edges. Of course there are no ...

This viewpoint is common among women nearing the end of their braided, bantu-knotted and picked rope styles lengthening their getting ready process to hours. It’s also a popular sentiment with those ...

Yet a few of the ‘relaxer girls’ revealed they did not actually use the hair relaxers that made them famous, but rather, they straightened and used mousse to achieve their silky and glossy look.

In the quest for sleek, straight hair, many of us have reached for chemical relaxers. Tips to maintain relaxed hair (Destiny Magazine) But let’s face it, while they do the job, they’re not exactly ...

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 ...

Months after I made the decision to cut the relaxer out of my hair, I remember having vivid nightmares of being in the salon, someone mis-communicating or misunderstanding and a beautician spinning me ...

Relaxing your own roots is notoriously difficult to get right and can be damaging to the hair. But you do have options. By Crystal Martin Much of the conversation surrounding black hair in recent ...

I decided to go natural toward the end of 2015. It wasn’t a big life changing moment though and I didn’t take anyone along on my natural hair journey, I just quietly stopped relaxing my hair. I had ...