Maria Loren Ackies remembers the first time she went to the salon to get her hair professionally straightened. “I was 14 and I was so excited,” Ackies, 49, of West Hempstead, recalled. But her mood ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Permanent chemical hair relaxers remain popular, despite studies linking usage with uterine and other cancers. Two studies supported by the National Institutes of Health show a higher ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — If you looked through the ingredients of some of the products in your morning routine, who knows what you'd find on that laundry list. But the FDA is proposing a ban on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The damage chemical hair relaxers can have on Black women is coming under intense scrutiny. Several landmark studies have been ...

When hair thinning is already an issue, is a perm really worth it?

Growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood in the late 1990s, Traccye Love wished for the long, smooth tresses of pop star Aaliyah. “That was the look then — smooth and straight,” said Love, of Oak ...

Experts explain what it takes to transition from a perm to natural hair.