So, you have made the decision to get braids! Hoorah. What an excellent choice. I love having braids and miss them with my entire heart whenever I'm without the style. Honestly, getting braids ...

Sitting at the kitchen table getting your hair braided is a tradition that doesn’t end when you grow up. But, the pain associated with it finally can. “[We] do any and everything we can to eliminate ...

Autumn’s reign is nigh. In other words, for many, it's time to trade in protective styles for silk presses and billowy blowouts. But, if you fall into the underrepresented camp of year-long braid ...

While box braids are in no way a new trend — women of colour have been wearing them for a long time — there's been something of a revival lately. Everyone from the Knowles sisters to Zoë Kravitz and ...

A mother is receiving positive feedback from social media after explaining why she chose to get box braids in her hair. Box braids are a protective hairstyle where sections of hair are divided into ...

Flat twists, boho braids, and cornrows will stylishly take you from rooftop brunches to tropical vacations.

For many Black women, summertime calls for braids, even if getting them can take hours sitting in a chair. At one Brooklyn salon, these boho knotless braids — where curls dangle outside the braids — ...

It was the spring of 1994. I was 8 years old, and the singer Brandy was everything. I wanted to emulate her, but the most coveted thing I wanted was her signature braids. Like her breakout hit single, ...

In 1993, Janet Jackson appeared on the big screen wearing a hairstyle that black women would continue to lust after for 25 years and counting: chunky box braids, henceforth referred to as Poetic ...