It was a Saturday and I decided I was going to big chop. I looked in the mirror, grabbed my scissors and thought, “What’s the worst that could happen?” Many women have extreme fears like this, but ...

On June 15, 2020, I did something my younger self would call unthinkable and cut my hair. It wasn’t a trim, a bob, or pixie — I did the big chop. It was a decision I was considering for months. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2000s "natural hair movement" was transformative. For me, I never knew what my natural hair really looked like until college, ...

Over the past couple of years, natural hair has been the big trend among African-American women. Many have gone through the drastic cutting of the hair, also known as the “big chop,” while some have ...

So now that we've heard what the science suggests about the risk of hair relaxers, maybe you've decided to stop using them. To help us figure out how to do that, we're joined now by April Kayganich.

Going from relaxed hair to natural hair or from natural hair to relaxed hair is a big decision. If you've spent time on either side and then decided to make a change, it will feel like you're learning ...