I’ve got some news to share: I’m no longer a natural girl. After more than a decade of embracing my coily texture, I had to make a decision that was more fitting to my lifestyle—getting a relaxer.

Love the smooth, straight look of chemically relaxed hair but hate dealing with constant breakage and dryness? You’re definitely not alone in this struggle. Relaxed hair is basically high-maintenance ...

After years of falling out of favor due to the natural hair movement, relaxed hair seems to be back by popular demand. With over 47.9 million views on TikTok and 600,000 posts on Instagram, a growing ...

Nowadays, everywhere you turn you seem to see a new product geared towards natural hair. These products tend to have improved ingredients eliminating mineral oil, petrolatum and sulfates, which have ...

Over the past couple of years, natural hair has been the big trend among African-American women. Many have gone through the drastic cutting of the hair, also known as the “big chop,” while some have ...

When you relax your hair, it undergoes some controlled damage and as such, it is important to maintain it in a healthy fashion. Natural hair requires pampering, relaxed hair requires even more tender ...

I haven't had a relaxer since sometime in middle school. Over the years, I've worn braids, twist-outs, buns, crochet, pretty much all of it. And the abundance of info online created the opportunity ...

So now that we've heard what the science suggests about the risk of hair relaxers, maybe you've decided to stop using them. To help us figure out how to do that, we're joined now by April Kayganich.