Hair loss can hit you at any age, especially after puberty. Some reasons can be avoidable, like not using hair dye too close to applying hair relaxer. Maybe you’re transitioning from a relaxer to ...

Growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood in the late 1990s, Traccye Love wished for the long, smooth tresses of pop star Aaliyah. “That was the look then — smooth and straight,” said Love, of Oak ...

Sheila Bush, a cosmetologist, was lounging in the recliner at her St. Louis-area home last winter when an advertisement from a law firm flashed up on her television screen, urging viewers to call a ...

Danielle Ward Mason started using hair relaxer when she was eight years old. "When I was a child, I always wanted to engage in things that were active; I wanted to be a cheerleader. I wanted to swim.

INDIANAPOLIS — Permanent chemical hair relaxers remain popular, despite studies linking usage with uterine and other cancers. Two studies supported by the National Institutes of Health show a higher ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — Permanent chemical hair relaxers remain popular, despite studies linking usage with uterine and other cancers. Two studies supported by the National Institutes of Health show a higher ...