For those living under a rock, hair is a big deal to African American women and black women all over the world. We spend hours on it, whether it's in the salon getting it straightened, braiding it up, ...

Relaxed hair may be fun and beautiful but is it worth it? (Photo: Courtesy) The war between staying natural and relaxing has been going on for the longest time ever. A couple of years ago it was all ...

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 ...

Relaxing is not a lost hairdressing technique. It is still a very wide spread technique of removing unwanted curl from the hair. Many women, on all levels of society, still prefer the convenience of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a question that crosses the minds of many a black mother, should I put a perm in my daughter’s hair. This question becomes even more pressing if your daughter has thick, kinky hair. And if she’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, Twitter user Ash Leon tweeted a collage of the infamous hair relaxer boxes we all grabbed as kids at CVS and our local hair stores, sending Black Twitter into a nostalgic frenzy.