Wearing silk hair accessories while you sleep can benefit your locks in a number of ways. From silk pillowcases to silk hair wraps and scrunchies, there are plenty of ways to get your silk fix, but it ...
Young and beautiful Ayana, @theayanamoody, explained how she cooked her fresh silk press overnight in saran wrap. The initially naive TikToker — now all the wiser — thought wrapping her straightened ...
In the Black community, if you want to preserve your hair, whether it’s a silk press or worn natural, a trip to your local beauty salon is exactly what you need. For under $5.00, you can head into the ...
Female entrepreneur Sarah Marantz Lindenberg, the founder of NiteCap, has encountered cultural appropriation backlash for selling a silk head wrap that draws comparisons to sleep bonnets worn by black ...
Why Your Hair Needs Protection at Night Even if you don’t realize it, your hair takes a beating while you sleep. Every toss, turn, and pillow shift creates friction that lifts the cuticle, roughens ...
A white entrepreneur selling expensive hair wraps is being accused of appropriating a “trend” worn by black women during slavery and beyond. Fashion Magazine’s interview with Sarah Marantz Lindenberg, ...
These are the pros and cons of silk or satin for your hair and skin, plus top product picks from bonnets to pillowcases. For as long as I can remember, there has always been a debate on whether or not ...
When it comes to straightening textured hair, two techniques have long reigned supreme: the silk press and the blowout. Both ...
As a health editor, I’ll admit something that now seems quite foolish: I’ve always assumed that all pillowcases are pretty much the same. Sure, some feel softer ...
As many of my curly-haired colleagues know, managing your curls requires a lot of problem-solving. I used to straighten the bananas out of it, until I figured out a good curl routine in my late ...