One common myth is that there is just one type of Black hair, New York stylist Ellin LaVar says. "African-American hair isn't just very kinky, coarse texture," says LaVar, who has worked with ...

But as more African Americans embrace their natural selves, more people are realizing the true art and artistry that goes into styling the varied types and textures of Black hair. "Our hair is a ...

Hair type is all about your hair’s curl pattern ... that the desire to maintain a hairstyle prevents around 40% of African American women from exercising regularly. More than 60% of the women ...

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural significance, telling stories of survival, status and self-expression. What may ...

Army: Female focus group helped determine new hair rules That type of pressure is “both unfair and racially biased,” said Imani Perry, an African-American studies professor at Princeton ...

McMichael told Reuters that as an African-American woman, she too dealt with the hair versus exercise issue ... asked responders how much and what type of exercise they do, how long they exercised ...

She says this population is also prone to traction alopecia, a type of hair loss caused by styles that pull the hair too tight. In addition to these conditions, she says, African-American women ...

"You're born with a certain type of hair that is automatically ... No matter how African-Americans choose to wear their hair or how much money they've invested in it, every black person has ...

Type II is more typical of Caucasian hair, Marconnet says, while Type V is natural African-American hair. A graduate student in Reid's lab, Jaesik Hahn, took a commercially available hair ...

An estimated one-third of African-American women suffer from traction alopecia, a form of gradual hair loss. They say certain scalp-pulling hairstyles can cause damage to the hair follicle from ...

LIVE IN FAYETTEVILLE WHERE SHE SPOKE TO THE MIND BEHIND THE MAGIC. AFROS...BANTU KNOTS...KNOTLESS BRAIDS...OR LOCS-- AFRICAN AMERICAN HAIR COMES IN MANY DIFFERENT SHAPES AND SIZES AND THAT'S ...