Made in Black America by GYEB

Salon stylist with a sleek high ponytail and shaped, swooped baby hairs along her hairline setting a seated client's hair in rollers in a pink salon

Chicana Baby Hairs: Where Laid Edges Really Cam...

Homegirls, let's start with the part that actually stings. You spent years being told the look was too much. Too loud. Too hood. A teacher made a comment. A manager...

Chicana Baby Hairs: Where Laid Edges Really Cam...

Homegirls, let's start with the part that actually stings. You spent years being told the look was too much. Too loud. Too hood. A teacher made a comment. A manager...

Three Black women together wearing different natural textured hairstyles

Good Enough for the Draft, Good Enough for Tuesday

Coco Gauff answered criticism of her hair in eleven words and immediately spent the authority on somebody else. The pattern behind it, why it lands on women who will never...

Good Enough for the Draft, Good Enough for Tuesday

Coco Gauff answered criticism of her hair in eleven words and immediately spent the authority on somebody else. The pattern behind it, why it lands on women who will never...

Black woman with long braids tied back, jogging along a riverside path

Your Edges vs. Your Season: Hairline Care for A...

Aliyah Boston said she comes to practice with her afro filled out and by the end of it, it is done for. Every athlete learns that. What nobody teaches is...

Your Edges vs. Your Season: Hairline Care for A...

Aliyah Boston said she comes to practice with her afro filled out and by the end of it, it is done for. Every athlete learns that. What nobody teaches is...

Black woman with braided hair emerging from calm water at sunset

Swimming With Natural Hair: What Actually Prote...

A swim cap designed for Afro hair was rejected for the Olympics in 2021 and approved in 2022. That is the history. Here is the routine, starting with the one...

Swimming With Natural Hair: What Actually Prote...

A swim cap designed for Afro hair was rejected for the Olympics in 2021 and approved in 2022. That is the history. Here is the routine, starting with the one...

Customer with long braids holding a jar of Grow Your Edges Back Edge Control

Takedown Day: How to Get Braids Out Without Tak...

Most hairline damage from braids happens at takedown, not during the install. The softening step, the takedown order, how to get white edge control residue out of your hairline, and...

Takedown Day: How to Get Braids Out Without Tak...

Most hairline damage from braids happens at takedown, not during the install. The softening step, the takedown order, how to get white edge control residue out of your hairline, and...

Woman with a full natural afro smiling outdoors in a city street, defined coils and a clean hairline

Afro-Mexican Hair: The Costa Chica Coils Mexico...

Mexico counted its Afro-descendant population for the first time in the modern era in 2020 — 2,576,213 people. Here is what Costa Chica hair actually needs, and why the beauty...

Afro-Mexican Hair: The Costa Chica Coils Mexico...

Mexico counted its Afro-descendant population for the first time in the modern era in 2020 — 2,576,213 people. Here is what Costa Chica hair actually needs, and why the beauty...