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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a ban on hair-straightening and smoothing products that contain cancer-causing chemicals. Black women, who are historic consumers of the hair ...

Fine afro-textured hair also tends to be porous, so please do your hair a favor and stop buying relaxers for coarse hair if you relax your hair. The likelihood that you will overprocess and harm your ...

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 ...

Pioneering husband and wife duo George and Joan Johnson created a path where there was none and left a legacy that reminds us that Black is beautiful. For having such a string of ‘firsts,’ the master ...

On Wednesday, Guinness World Records announced that Ms. Martinez, 29, had officially set a new mark for a woman with an Afro ...

While relaxers do break down the structural integrity of the hair shaft by permanently rearranging the hydrogen bonds to make hair straight, this doesn’t automatically mean that relaxers are a death ...