Over the years, instead of learning how to take care of my hair, I opted to damage it. My flat iron was booked and busy ...

People with textured hair, especially in rural parts of Washington, often struggle to find local hair care that meets their needs and are sometimes forced to travel long distances for ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with video game designer and UC Santa Cruz professor A.M. Darke, about her work on a new computer algorithm that more accurately illustrates Black hair.

DARKE: So, phase locking is what we're calling the kind of spongy matrix that happens when you have coilier and kinkier hair textures. So before the hair actually turns into sort of a defined curl ...

If conditioner is akin to your lightweight body lotions, hair masks are more of a body butter, explains Ash Therese, master stylist at the Bird House salon. No matter the texture or the complaint ...

Black women’s metaphorical pledge of allegiance to braids dates back thousands of years. In the 60s, advancements in polymer technology (the manufacture of materials such as plastics, paints, rubber, ...