As a historian and hairstylist, the owner of community salon Rizo Libre wants her services to go far beyond hair. Afro hair is not just a matter of aesthetics and fashion. Enslaved people used to ...

It is already very difficult to be a Black woman who embraces her natural curls. Now, studies show that there is something called an “Afro-Tax” that those with curls and coils could be facing. An Afro ...

Here is the revised description with all links and associated text removed: Are you looking for a natural way to treat your Afro hair? In this video, we'll show you the first Botox for Afro Hair – a ...

A Louisiana woman has set a Guinness world record for having the largest afro on a living person, and it's not her first time doing it. Aevin Dugas, 47, has an afro measuring 9.84 inches tall, 10.24 ...

Afro Unicorn Magical Tresses logo. Afro Unicorn-Branded Magical Tresses Line Launches at Walmart to Coincide with World Afro Day on Sept. 15th My goal has always been to normalize Black beauty and ...

New research released in conjunction with World Afro Day has found that those with Afro hair are forced to pay more, travel further and wait longer for salon appointments than other hair types, with a ...

Jessica “Jess” L. Martinez, a woman from New York, has set a new Guinness World Record for the largest afro on a living person (female). Her impressive afro measured 29 cm (11.42 in) tall, 31 cm (12.2 ...

Stigmatisms of Afro hair has been rife across media for decades. The misrepresentation and mischaracterisation of Afro hair being perceived as scruffy or unkept - generally from the wider European ...

When Cynthia Collazo Pacheco was a 5-year-old girl growing up in Puerto Rico, she begged for a perm. After being called names like “monkey” in school, she’d come to think of her natural Afro-textured ...

NAPOLEONVILLE, La. (WAFB) - A Louisiana woman who has taken her hair to new heights is known around the world for her famous Afro hairstyle. Aevin Dugas from Napoleonville uses her larger-than-life ...

For a Black woman, her hair can be her crowning glory, an expression of pride in her appearance. But it can also be something more, something deeper — something rooted in culture and a complicated ...

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