Hair
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Travel
Oh, the Ordinary Places You’ll Go!
For some travelers, the big draw in a destination is not a hot new restaurant or high-end hotel. It’s the…
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Finance
Why These Summertime Braids Cost $450 (and Can Take About 5 Hours)
Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENTWhy These Summertime Braids Cost $450 (and Can Take About 5 Hours) Ms. Charles’s first memory of…
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Magazine
Hair Oil Gets a Slick Reboot
Some South Asian women remember being embarrassed of their families’ hair oiling traditions. Now, beauty brands, bloggers and celebrities are…
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Magazine
What to Know About Chemical Hair Relaxers and Health
A growing body of evidence shows a link between these products and a number of health disorders in Black women.
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Magazine
The Disturbing Truth About Hair Relaxers
The phone rang incessantly in Dr. Tamarra James-Todd’s office at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “I’m sorry,” she…
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Magazine
What Kind of Person Lies to a Child With Cancer?
A reader is fuming after a friend lied about her efforts to get a wig made for a sick child,…
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Magazine
Beyoncé Showed Her Hair Being Washed. Here’s Why It Matters.
In a video on Instagram, the singer provided fans a rare glimpse of her routine.
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Magazine
Hair That Puts Your Best Face Forward
At the recent fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris, the many wet waves, curly mullets and braids…
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Magazine
Permanent Lettuce: A Pageant of Hockey Hair
At Minnesota’s state hockey tournament, outrageously coifed high school stars competed for the best “salad” and “flow.” And then the…
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World
Overlooked No More: Pierre Toussaint, Philanthropist and Candidate for Sainthood
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported…