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 ...

Yet a few of the ‘relaxer girls’ revealed they did not actually use the hair relaxers that made them famous, but rather, they straightened and used mousse to achieve their silky and glossy look.

Taking care of a full head of natural hair was never an easy task for *Stacey Jordan. She went natural in 2010, opting to grow her relaxer out after being inspired by her older sister’s transition to ...

A few days ago, my good friend sent me a selfie from the salon chair saying, “I’ve had enough, I’m getting a perm.” While my usual instinct is to go to bat for team natural and explain all the reasons ...

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.

When we were younger, and we went to the salon to ‘relax’ our natural hair, we used to look at the young girls on those relaxer boxes with envy. Their hair was so long and sleeky, we hoped using the ...

So now that we've heard what the science suggests about the risk of hair relaxers, maybe you've decided to stop using them. To help us figure out how to do that, we're joined now by April Kayganich.

In 2019, I wrote about a young woman who after nine years of wearing her hair natural, had a change of heart and put a relaxer in her hair. She did so because of a struggle to manage hair care needs ...

As a child brushing my curly mane was a major affair, usually accompanied by tears (mine, and probably my mothers too), bribes (to get me to sit still), and almost always ending with my mum handing ...

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 ...