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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…
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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…
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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…
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Losing Hair, Gaining Followers
Zeph Sanders was 20 when his hair began to fall out. As it thinned from the density of AstroTurf to…
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Need Therapy? In West Africa, Hairdressers Can Help.
An initiative to train hairdressers in mental health counseling is providing relief to hundreds of clients in a region with…
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The Bergdorf Blonde Moves to Park Avenue
The location has changed, but clients such as Hillary Clinton and Martha Stewart remain loyal to Parvin Klein, a colorist…
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For Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Hair Is Rooted in Pride
The Philadelphia artist’s show at Artists Space considers how hair cutting, grooming and caregiving help create a Black queer community.
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When a Seat in the Theater Means a Seat in the Salon
“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is a play where the Black women in the audience are the ones who feel most…
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A Scientist’s Salons in Paris Cater to a Neglected Trait: Curly Hair
With a Ph.D. in chemistry and inspired by her daughter, Aude Livoreil-Djampou is trying to address the dearth of salon…
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Breaths of Fresh Hair
After witnessing what appeared to be a total democratization of hairstyles at fashion weeks in February and March, I was…
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