After a routine appointment became an unexpected reckoning, I’d stayed away from the salon for years—until now.

When should I cut my hair for lush locks?

Does cutting or shaving hair make it grow back faster, darker or thicker? What about tweezing or waxing? Shaving will not make sparse facial hair grow into a thick beard, or armpit or leg hair become ...

Like many Black girls, I had a complicated relationship with my hair growing up. For the majority of my childhood, I never really knew what my natural curls looked like. Once I was old enough to get a ...