Historically, beauty standards have favored straight hair and stigmatized textured hair as being unprofessional or messy. But in many Black and brown communities, hair has a cultural significance with ...

Ease and joy are two things that Carolina Contreras, founder and CEO of Miss Rizos, hopes to bring to people through her upcoming products designed for curly and Afro-textured hair. “I knew, I knew, ...

Women are travelling across the UK to get their afro hair cared for due to a lack of salons able to do it, a BBC ...

Carolina Contreras started having her hair straightened at a very young age. Contreras, who is Dominican American, says her mother reached for the relaxer at the first sign of new growth, leaving her ...

I can’t pinpoint exactly when I realising that my Afro hair didn’t fit ‘professional’ look. But the pressure to shrink myself for those around me has been on my shoulders from a young age ...