I often feel sad when I see a little girl crying because her hair is painful when being combed. This is the reason why some mums relax their daughters’ hair even at a very tender age. Almost ...

they were anything but relaxing. The worst happened when I was about 16 years old and had been having my hair permanently ...

I can recall the day I got my first hair relaxer like it was yesterday. At the tender age of 13, it was also the first time I’d ever stepped foot into an Afro Hair salon to get my tresses tamed ...

Jenny Mitchell was 10 years old when she began using chemical relaxers to straighten her hair. Her mother relaxed Mitchell's hair ...

She said: "How I regrew my thinning hair from this to this ... blood flow to the scalp to promote regrowth - plus, it's super relaxing to do as well. Next, Ally swears by laser therapy and ...

A semi-permanent alternative to relaxer, a texture release temporarily loosens curls and coils. Two years into my natural hair journey, I was at my wit’s end with the dual texture of my hair.

"I think I was 19 or something. And literally most of my hair on my left and right temple... gone. I'd used a relaxer that had burned all the way through." Tiwa Jenyo, founder of The Trap House ...

At the age of 15, Michelle’s mother applied the Dark and Lovely relaxer to her hair for the first time. “I was in high school and I wanted my hair to be pretty and flowy and straight ...

Common cause of scalp burn is when the relaxer is left on the hair for longer than necessary. When I did my first ever perm, the hairdresser applied some petroleum jelly on the tips of my ears and ...

"Every time I took out my weave at the salon, I would have them chemically 'relax' my hair and would then put on another weave on the same day - I was never with my own hair," says Bandile (not ...

Growing up in rural Georgia, Jenny Mitchell was 10 years old when she began using chemical relaxers to straighten her hair. Her mother relaxed Mitchell’s hair at home for years, using a product ...