At one point in her life, Kobe Campbell considered herself a natural hair warrior. Not just natural hair, kinky hair. “I think there’s a part of me that felt like I want to represent kinky hair. I ...

The hair scale was originally used as a marketing tool for Andre Walker to sell his hair products. The scale is broken into four overall categories; 1a-c are “straight” hair textures, 2a-c are “wavy” ...

The history of the hair typing system is a complicated one. The original hair type system, the hair gauge, was developed in 1905 in present-day Namibia by Eugen Fischer — a German scientist whose ...

I can’t remember a time when straight hair didn’t mean something. Up until the age of 10, when I used a relaxer for the first time, straight hair symbolised unattainable beauty – the standard set by ...