Gentle no-lye relaxers with strengthening oils and proteins. Reduce breakage and protect your hair with these 7 expert-approved relaxers. If your hair always feels thinner or weaker after a relaxer, ...

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 ...

For Black women, the process of maintaining their hair can be fraught. To tame texture or curls, many women spend long hours in a stylist’s chair or subject their hair to harsh chemical relaxers to ...

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 ...