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 ...

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 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 ...

“If Michelle Obama had had natural hair, Barack would not have won.” This is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaking, a Nigerian author best known for her book (and subsequent movie) One Half Of A Yellow ...

After years of falling out of favor due to the natural hair movement, relaxed hair seems to be back by popular demand. With over 47.9 million views on TikTok and 600,000 posts on Instagram, a growing ...

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 ...

Are you natural and considering going back to relaxed hair? If you’re like me, then you’ve probably been thinking about it quite a bit. It’s been five years since I went natural for the second time ...

Tabnie Dozier was in kindergarten when she started getting her hair straightened with chemical relaxers that often contained the same ingredients used to unclog drains. Dozier, who’s Black, spent the ...

Earlier this year local luxury cosmetics brand, Halo Heritage, conducted a survey on 800 South African women to determine where their natural hair beliefs stem from. There were overwhelmingly positive ...

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 ...