November 15, 2016

On Beauty: A Radical Feminist Hair Salon With Serious Cool-Girl Cred

On Beauty By KAT HERRIMAN Johanna Fateman is most famous as a musician — she was the founder, with Kathleen Hanna, of the germinal feminist dance-punk […]
September 13, 2016

Backstage Beauty Report: Rodarte Brings Back Youthful, D.I.Y. Headbands and Barettes

Backstage Beauty Report By KARI MOLVAR The Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy often spin a dreamy, youthful quality into their ethereal collections. At today’s spring/summer […]
August 17, 2016

Fighting Frizz? Then You Should’ve Put a Shower Cap on It.

Aly Walansky doesn’t care how ridiculous she may look. When she is running errands or heading to meetings and it begins to rain, she will reach […]
August 17, 2016

Skin Deep: Olympian Style Inspires Kids and Some Adults

Skin Deep By CRYSTAL MARTIN Maddy Wiederkehr, 11, who lives in Westchester County, has been putting her hair up in a tidy Aly Raisman-style topknot since […]
August 15, 2016

Their Hair Fell Out. Should the F.D.A. Have the Power to Act?

WASHINGTON — When the Los Angeles hairstylist Chaz Dean pitched his almond mint and lavender-scented hair care products — endorsed by celebrities like Brooke Shields and […]
August 11, 2016

Social Q’s: May I Ignore Orders My Mother Says My Dead Nana Is Sending?

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES My single mother, 65, is selling the house where I grew up. She told me the buyers asked if they could […]
June 14, 2016

Margaret Heldt, Hairdresser Who Built the Beehive, Dies at 98

Margaret Vinci Heldt, a Chicago beautician who, with the aid of hair spray and a favorite hat, redefined coiffure for women of the 1960s and the […]