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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Everyone can recall a traumatic hairdressers story, right? I mean, I have a few; a wonky haircut that made me scared of getting even a trim. A blow-dry at a European salon that was giving nothing but ...
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 ...
“Oh, you are gonna want to do jojoba and sweet almond oil instead of castor,” Whitney White, one of YouTube’s most famous black beauty vloggers, told me over the phone last month. The changing of the ...