Black Hair

Happy New Year! It’s the first Big Beauty Tuesday of 2021—and after the heaviness of 2020, we are understandably…

Can you believe it’s nearly the end of 2020—and amid everything else, in most states in America we’re still asking…

Every natural hair journey is unique, but few result in a Guinness World Record. The mane of Brooklyn, N.Y., fashion…

In one of those “Wait, you mean they didn’t do that 50 years ago?” news items, UPS has announced its workers can…

Laverne Cox is already well-known to body an over-the-top look—it doesn’t hurt that the statuesque actress has the…

We’ve long suspected Issa Rae might be the busiest Black woman in Hollywood—but unbelievably, she’s equally a…

South African shops are pulling TRESemmé products off their shelves after widespread protests over an online ad…

Heads up—if you hadn’t heard, our tresses are trending this month. A number of famous and brilliant women have put…

Glamour Magazine has unveiled its September cover story, which is all about the stigmas of Black women’s hair. The…

It’s another Big Beauty Tuesday here at The Glow Up, and instead of our regularly scheduled weekly video, we hope…

If you’ve ever heard the statement ‘anti-Blackness is global’ and wondered what it truly meant, consider this news:…

A Houston-area school district has unanimously voted to preserve a hair policy that has been widely criticized as…

Gabrielle Union is all about expressing yourself—your truest self. That goes for everyone and anyone, including her…

I take one little week away from my daily duties here at The Glow Up and come back to the news that yet another…

One day, all of y’all are going to stop worrying about women do with their own damned hair (and reproductive…

With Juneteenth hitting the national radar this year, I think it’s finally safe for us to give up all pretense of…

We all know how much Tamar Braxton knows her way around a wig; she even launched her own line of wigs and weaves in…

I remember well the age I was when I demanded to take over the maintenance of my own hair. I was 8 and a soon-to-be…

“Never read the comments” is the conventional advice given to journalists working in social media—where everyone’s a…

Black men are fiercely protective of two things: our hair and our hairlines. So it stands to reason that after…