Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many women on social media have returned to using hair relaxers for ease while styling. (Photo: Getty Images) (Getty Images/Image ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Can Japanese hair straightening work on Black hair? Pictured: black girl with long, straight hair. The natural hair movement has ...

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 ...

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When it comes to hair relaxers – heavy-duty chemicals that permanently straighten tight curls – you tend to find that Black and mixed-raced women vividly remember their first time. The eye-watering ...

Growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood in the late 1990s, Traccye Love wished for the long, smooth tresses of pop star Aaliyah. “That was the look then — smooth and straight,” said Love, of Oak ...

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 ...