At one point in her life, Kobe Campbell considered herself a natural hair warrior. Not just natural hair, kinky hair. “I think there’s a part of me that felt like I want to represent kinky hair. I ...

Meet the winners of Bustle's 2026 Beauty Icon Awards for natural hair champions: 8 creators proving that there’s no single ...

Many Black women have experienced the ritual of hair straightening, whether through chemical relaxers that caused a familiar tingling sensation signaling it was time to wash the product out or get ...

For some of us, giving up perms and chemicals is more than just a beauty statement. It’s the long history of the natural hair movement in the ‘60s. (Thanks, Angela Davis and Diana Ross.) It’s the ...

During my first pregnancy at age 36, my skin was resplendent, as it had been decades earlier. I walked around with the knowledge I was creating life in my womb, which was young enough to be fertile.

The history of the hair typing system is a complicated one. The original hair type system, the hair gauge, was developed in 1905 in present-day Namibia by Eugen Fischer — a German scientist whose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We spoke with Sasha T., Charlayne, and Fatimah, founders of the Loc’ Expo, a unique one-day event celebrating loc’d and natural ...

The decision to “go natural,” i.e. the decision to wear one’s hair in its natural state free from chemical straighteners, can be both empowering and daunting. What do I do with it? What products ...

In 2025, we’re freeing ourselves from restrictions and inhibitions, which includes how we police our natural hair. The natural hair space is one of reclamation, self discovery, and love. Many Black ...

Students circled Boston University’s Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground as Erykah Badu, Kendrick Lamar and Solange’s “Don’t Touch My Hair” played in the background as they waited for the ...

On July 3, 2019, the first CROWN Act legislation was signed in California to “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair.” Now, six years later, on National Crown Day, Black women around the ...

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