Ariel Baker has been a beauty editor since 2021, covering everything from celebrity news, product reviews, beauty trends, and more. Amanda Le is a multi-media writer, social media maven, publicist, ...

Every time I get my hair done, I find myself confronted with rising costs, and dizzyingly long maintenance regimes Don’t already get The Long Wave in your inbox? Sign up here This week, I tried to ...

A Nigerian-American engineer and Harvard graduate, Yinka Ogunbiyi, has developed HaloBraid, described as the world’s first braid-assist robot designed to ease the physical strain on hairstylists and ...

In the 1930s Werner Burau, a German mathematician, introduced a twisted geometrical mystery that would stand for nearly a century. Previously, mathematicians had shown that knots could be reformulated ...

Similar hairstyles trace back to ancient Greece and Italy, which is one reason Halo braids have been worn repeatedly on the red carpet by stars of The Odyssey. During the Paris premiere of the film, ...

It’s the dead of summer in New Orleans, but the weather isn’t the only thing at an all-time high. Braid inspiration is running deep at this year’s Essence Festival and, if you’re on the hunt for new ...

Indiana Fever forward Sophie Cunningham has taken the internet by storm this week, thanks to her interaction with Phoenix Mercury’s DeWanna Bonner during Monday’s match-up in Indiana. The WNBA’s ...

Michelle Obama openly embraces braids, a symbolic hairstyle representing her personal freedom. Sasha and Malia's distinct braid styles highlight the cultural significance of braids for Black women.

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. A set of fresh braids means something. Black women don’t get them only because they’re cute, although ...

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Louisiana, a state notorious for high occupational licensing barriers and below-average household median income, may soon create one of the strictest hair braiding licensing requirements in the ...

When Consumer Reports published findings from tests conducted on several synthetic braiding hair products in 2025, we detected heavy metals like lead in 90 percent and volatile organic compounds (VOCs ...