Braids are beloved for a myriad of reasons. They act as a protective style and lead to low manipulation of your natural hair, they're a fun way to add personality to a look, and they're a creative ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For many women with Afro-textured hair, summertime means scouting out the perfect braids. Hotter weather calls ...

Kara Jillian Brown is the beauty editor of InStyle. She began her career at Well+Good, where she spent five years evolving from editorial intern to news writer to beauty writer. She earned a ...

Ziomara Asprilla Garcia remembers the click, click, click of her mother’s hands quickly braiding strands of hair and twisting them into neat rows under a mango tree in Colombia. Click, click, click in ...

The start of a new year often arrives with a quiet urge to reset, refresh, and show up a little differently. For many women, that shift begins with hair. Short natural afro hairstyles are stepping ...

Fluffy, nappy, kinky, twists, curls, Afros. Natural black hair is back. Actually, it never went anywhere. It was always there underneath the perms, extensions and weaves. Rather, wearing black hair ...

A waterfall braid starts at the front of your head and wraps all the way around to the other side, pulling in tiny sections of hair as you go. Milana, the vlogger behind the account Milabu, made the ...