The start of a new year often arrives with a quiet urge to reset, refresh, and show up a little differently. For many women, that shift begins with hair. Short natural afro hairstyles are stepping ...

A Louisiana woman has set a Guinness world record for having the largest afro on a living person, and it's not her first time doing it. Aevin Dugas, 47, has an afro measuring 9.84 inches tall, 10.24 ...

Jessica “Jess” L. Martinez, a woman from New York, has set a new Guinness World Record for the largest afro on a living person (female). Her impressive afro measured 29 cm (11.42 in) tall, 31 cm (12.2 ...

The story of the world’s biggest afro is a reminder that beauty isn't a single standard, but a diverse spectrum of expression. Jessica Martinez proves that when you stop trying to "manipulate" your ...

When Cynthia Collazo Pacheco was a 5-year-old girl growing up in Puerto Rico, she begged for a perm. After being called names like “monkey” in school, she’d come to think of her natural Afro-textured ...

As Africans, you’d think that we would be more appreciative of how our hair grows and encourage the young ones to keep it that way but that's not the case. Students are often required to cut their ...

An excerpt on identity, hope, and glory from My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration and Tips to Love and Care for Your Crown. In Chad, the women say God left a gift in the mountains to make their hair ...

For a Black woman, her hair can be her crowning glory, an expression of pride in her appearance. But it can also be something more, something deeper — something rooted in culture and a complicated ...

Stigmatisms of Afro hair has been rife across media for decades. The misrepresentation and mischaracterisation of Afro hair being perceived as scruffy or unkept - generally from the wider European ...