Styling your hair is a way to showcase your unique personality. Whether you have the same haircut most of your life or switch up hairstyles every month, your hair plays an important role in defining ...

The link between hair relaxers and uterine cancer suggested by a recent study and lawsuit is potentially devastating news. But it highlights another problem: the scarcity of safer chemical ...

Wait long enough and everything comes back in style is an age-old truism. That day has arrived for perms. Hair salons across metro Detroit are seeing a blast from the past with the return of the ...

My picture appears with my column in the Chicago Tribune three times a week. But if most readers happened to pass me in a hallway, they probably wouldn’t recognize me. That’s because for me and many ...

The year is 1987. Bon Jovi is blasting on every radio station, "Dirty Dancing" is in theaters nationwide, and the only thing people want more than the numbers of Jon and Baby's personal choreographers ...

Wavy hairstyles are all the rage, even among people with straight hair. But using a curling iron is fiddly and time-consuming and you also risk singeing your hair. So if you want to keep your curls ...

Let’s hear it for the curly boys. It used to be the ladies who would settle in for the long haul of getting a perm. But now the young boys have joined the curly hair brigade, deciding once you go wavy ...

Believe it or not, perms are making a comeback. If you grew up in the ‘80s, you’re probably all too familiar with the hair treatment: the spiral, tight curls formed by chemical processing that gave ...