Here's how a year without braids helped one writer recover from traction alopecia and find healthy protective styles.

Get ready, because French curl braids are taking 2025 by storm, and trust us, it’s a trend you’ll want to be a part of! This ...

Crochet hairstyles have always been in vogue, but they are the new trends taking over social media at the moment. On TikTok, every fashion and beauty creator seems to be teaching you how to install ...

Source: Halo Braid’s inventors Yinka Ogunbiyi and David Afolabi. Courtesy of F / Courtesy of Facebook Halo Braid, an automated hair-braiding device that leverages machine learning to drastically speed ...

While braids are a popular, universal protective style that has myriad merits and dates back across cultures for thousands of years, getting them is a costly and lengthy process that still takes hours ...

Deemed the "Halo Braid," the braiding tool helps stylists by reducing the time needed to complete the popular style. The invention of a hair-braiding robot has won a startup competition at Harvard ...

Would you visit a natural hair stylist with a week of formal training? If you live in New York, you might have to one day. There is a proposal to decrease the number of hours required to acquire a ...

Back in the day, your grandma would’ve had a fit if she saw more than one person in your hair at once. In Black American tradition, your head wasn’t just something to style — it was something to ...

The French braid is a classic hairstyle that is not only protective but universal, perfect for anything from running errands to attending a black-tie event. The intricate hairstyle is often seen on ...

With sweaty temps here, finding cute ways to put your hair up is more than a style choice — it’s a necessity. As someone with long, thick dark hair, wearing my hair down is essentially impossible ...

The protective styling trend has millions of women reaching for synthetic braiding hair, but a troubling reality lurks beneath those perfectly sculpted braids. Recent investigations have uncovered ...