Why Do People Braid Hair? Many people choose braids as their go-to hairstyle because they’re stylish and low maintenance. They also protect your hair from daily styling, breakage, and the elements, ...

From the larger-than-life Afros of the 1970s to the finger waves and French rolls of the 1990s, Black natural hair movements have had many iterations. And over the last decade and a half, the modern ...

Why Black women are excluded from the messy hair aesthetic—and how unfair beauty standards still decide who gets to look ...

From timeless staples to newer styles that are taking over social feeds, these 10 natural hairstyles every Black woman should know prove that versatility and beauty are always at the heart of Black ...

The former First Lady explains why she felt she didn’t have the “freedom of action” to wear her natural curls while in power, ...

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Why is it so hard to find wigs that don’t look so … “wig-gy”? Is there anything worse than spending hundreds of dollars on a cute new wig only to receive a weird, shiny mop of hair? And to make ...

The Black women in my family have been straightening their hair for as long as I can remember. Because of this, straight hair was all I knew. Without it, I rarely felt confident or beautiful.