July 23, 2020

Getting Your Hair, Nails and Tattoos Done at Home

In the middle of May, Ashley Barton sipped a mimosa in her best friend’s apartment in Whitestone, Queens, while she enjoyed her first professional manicure and […]
July 17, 2020

How the Central Park Barber Spends His Sundays

Herman James worked out of a barbershop on Manhattan’s Upper West Side until the city temporarily closed all nonessential businesses in March. Looking for a way […]
June 26, 2020

As He Cut My Hair, I Wept

A few weeks ago, I gave myself a crew cut. I didn’t know how long it would be before I could visit a barber and figured […]
May 11, 2020

Colorado Hair Salons Are Reopening, With New Rules

LOVELAND, Colo. — Last Tuesday, during the first few days that this state loosened restrictions on businesses that were temporarily closed because of the novel coronavirus, […]
April 23, 2020

How to Cut Your Own Bangs

We can help you trim existing straight or wavy bangs. Come watch Lily Benson, our off-platform visual editor, as she takes these tips for a test […]
April 21, 2020

FOMO Is Over. Give In to the Joy of Letting Go.

Self-seclusion, Week 1. I’d been planning to watch over the health of loved ones. But I’d also been looking forward to having time on my hands: […]
April 15, 2020

How to Cut Your Own Hair With Trimmers

How can you give yourself a buzz cut? Here, let us show you. You will need: Clippers with guards, which attach to the clippers and control […]
April 14, 2020

Coffee, Stretching, Epsom Salt Baths: Life in Megan Rapinoe’s Skin

Megan Rapinoe, the star midfielder of the United States women’s national soccer team, for whom she has taken home multiple golds in the Olympics and the […]
April 12, 2020

How to Care for Your Relaxed Hair at Home

Much of the conversation surrounding black hair in recent years has been about caring for and styling natural hair, and for good reason. As news spread […]
April 1, 2020

Did a Cult Hair-Care Line Cause Thousands of Women to Lose Their Hair?

Ayesha Malik’s long dark hair once fell in such unbelievably perfect Botticelli curls that in 2017 she felt compelled to take to YouTube to prove to […]