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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to the ever-growing online natural hair movement, there have never been more resources to help Black women to move away from chemical treatments and towards embracing their natural kinks and ...

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When it comes to hair relaxers – heavy-duty chemicals that permanently straighten tight curls – you tend to find that Black and mixed-raced women vividly remember their first time. The eye-watering ...

The history of hair straightening in America is quite a lengthy one. Specifically, straightening afro-textured hair is a significant part of the history of Black America: Our hair has been ...

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 ...

When I was a younger having my hair done was never a treat. Nervously, I’d sit in the stylist’s chair as she yanked my hair with a wide tooth comb, all the while telling my mum that my hair is tough ...