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 ...

Creamy crack, perms, relaxers — known by many polyonyms, chemical hair straighteners have been a fixture in the Black beauty space since their inception in 1909. But now, with the FDA proposing a ban ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A new study has found women who used hair straightening chemicals were at higher risk for uterine cancer. Researchers with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) compared ...

Jasmine Green sat in the kitchen one afternoon in 2003, getting her hair done by her grandmother. Her curly coils were being parted in sections with a slender comb to reveal her scalp. Vaseline was ...

HOUSTON – Say goodbye to flat, lifeless hair and welcome the return of stunning, bouncy curls because in case you didn’t know, perms are making a comeback. And if you’ve never had one or are ...

Maria Loren Ackies remembers the first time she went to the salon to get her hair professionally straightened. “I was 14 and I was so excited,” Ackies, 49, of West Hempstead, recalled. But her mood ...

My mother was a teenager in the late ’70s when big poofy hair (see Donna Summer and Tina Turner circa 1978) was all the rage. And like many teens, she wanted to fit in, so she asked her mom: “Can I ...

It’s been over a year since GloRilla announced she was trading in her natural tresses for the creamy crack because she was tired of her “carpet hair.” The rapper, who often keeps her mane styled in ...

When Ashley León, 28, saw pictures of perm kit boxes on Twitter, it instantly took her back to her childhood days spent in a Staten Island beauty salon, a “cradle of womanhood if you will, especially ...

Perms are making a curly comeback this summer. Both men and women are rocking bouncy curls like they did in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Sergio Morales, owner and stylist at Volume Social Club – along with ...