Hair
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US
Oh, the Ordinary Places You’ll Go!
For some travelers, the big draw in a destination is not a hot new restaurant or high-end hotel. It’s the grocery store, swimming pool or kitchenware shop, where they can dip into the stream of local life.
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News
Why These Summertime Braids Cost $450 (and Can Take About 5 Hours)
Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENTWhy These Summertime Braids Cost $450 (and Can Take About 5 Hours) Ms. Charles’s first memory of getting braids, at age 4, was painful. She was at home in Tobago, and she recalled her sister pulling her hair. As an ...
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Newyork
Hair Oil Gets a Slick Reboot
Some South Asian women remember being embarrassed of their families’ hair oiling traditions. Now, beauty brands, bloggers and celebrities are embracing them.
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Newyork
What to Know About Chemical Hair Relaxers and Health
A growing body of evidence shows a link between these products and a number of health disorders in Black women.
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Newyork
The Disturbing Truth About Hair Relaxers
The phone rang incessantly in Dr. Tamarra James-Todd’s office at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “I’m sorry,” she said, excusing herself for the third time. “It’s happening a lot,” she explained after pausing to take another call, “with ...
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Newyork
What Kind of Person Lies to a Child With Cancer?
A reader is fuming after a friend lied about her efforts to get a wig made for a sick child, and thinks her other friends should know about the deception.
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Newyork
Beyoncé Showed Her Hair Being Washed. Here’s Why It Matters.
In a video on Instagram, the singer provided fans a rare glimpse of her routine.
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Newyork
Hair That Puts Your Best Face Forward
At the recent fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris, the many wet waves, curly mullets and braids of all sizes in the crowds seemed to be styled with a shared philosophy: Keep it tight at the top. Hair, no matter the length or the flow ...
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Newyork
Permanent Lettuce: A Pageant of Hockey Hair
At Minnesota’s state hockey tournament, outrageously coifed high school stars competed for the best “salad” and “flow.” And then the games began.
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World
Overlooked No More: Pierre Toussaint, Philanthropist and Candidate for Sainthood
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In 1849, Mary Ann Schuyler, a wealthy New Yorker, was reminded fondly of her longtime hairdresser ...