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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — A new study from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences revealed women who use chemical hair straightening products were twice as likely to develop uterine ...

It's time to reconsider the use of hair relaxers and explore safer, healthier alternatives. Black women often have thick, textured hair, and many turn to hair relaxers for a sleek, smooth, and soft ...

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 ...

Natural hair gets most of the attention, but plenty of people still do get relaxers. This treatment chemically straightens the hair, typically with sodium hydroxide, which breaks down hydrogen bonds ...

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 ...