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 […]
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 […]
March 27, 2020

Black Women Learn to Braid While Social Distancing

Niani Barracks usually tends to clients at a salon in Detroit, but now that she must stay indoors because of the coronavirus pandemic, she has instead […]
February 22, 2020

The Man Who Creates Memorable Red Carpet Moments

Days after his Super Bowl video went viral, the British hairstylist Chris Appleton wasn’t exactly sure why it captivated so many people. The 39-second Instagram post […]
February 21, 2020

The Work Diary of a Hairdresser So Coveted, She Travels by Private Jet

Jayne Matthews thinks that most hairstylists are doing it wrong: “A person takes a pair of scissors and cuts the ends, maybe gives the hair some […]
February 20, 2020

Sy Sperling, Founder of the Hair Club for Men (and Also a Client), Dies at 78

Sy Sperling, a businessman who helped bring the hair-loss industry into the mainstream with ubiquitous, self-effacing ads, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Boca Raton, […]
December 26, 2019

Scrunchies for Your Crush

Here’s the news from winter break: Scrunchies have become a desired item for junior-high schoolboys. Today’s tween girls are offering their scrunchies — the fabric-poofed hair […]
October 19, 2019

The Real Queen of Wellness

BURBANK, Calif. — Tracee Ellis Ross, an actress on “Black-ish,” executive producer on the spinoff “Mixed-ish” and, as of last month, beauty entrepreneur, wanted to talk […]
December 29, 2017

9 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2018

Advertisement Damien Rosa, 14 (center), and his buddies at Sneaker Con.CreditKrista Schlueter for The New York Times Sneaker Con, a gathering of shoe fanatics founded in […]