Research suggests the synthetic hair used for braiding could be bad for you - but will that stop women using it?

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Black women around the world gather in salons, dorm rooms and living rooms for hours at a time to get ...

Black women’s metaphorical pledge of allegiance to braids dates back thousands of years. In the 60s, advancements in polymer ...

Consumer Reports finds harmful chemicals in popular synthetic hair used for braids and wigs, raising health concerns for ...

They say beauty is pain, but it isn’t supposed to be deadly. So why has a new analysis found that 80% of more than 4,000 ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Black women around the world gather in salons, dorm rooms and living rooms for hours at a time to get synthetic braids put in their hair. But they’re wondering if the ...

As with many products regularly used by Black women, the business of synthetic braiding hair is highly unregulated, and subsequently, there is still limited knowledge of its effects under ...