Majoring in Curls: Give Your Hair a Spa
Majoring in Curls: Give Your Hair a Spa

Everyone needs mental health days once in awhile, no matter your age or occupation you might have, and your hair does, too.

Miss Jessie's Closes Salon
Miss Jessie's Closes Salon

After a decade in business, the famed Miss Jessie’s Salon (formerly Curve Salon”> in Brooklyn closed its doors. “The decision to close operations was a difficult one,” said managing director Titi Branch. Although the closing of the curly salon was necessitated by unexpected issues, Branch said it has been the company’s strategy to focus more […]

Fragrance Additives
Fragrance Additives

The ingredients listed are organic molecules used in hair-are products, cosmetics, cleaning products, candles, and perfumes as fragrance additives. They are all naturally occurring components of various essential oils found in the plant kingdom.

Beauty Industry Goes After the Curly Girl
Beauty Industry Goes After the Curly Girl

Today, more hair-care companies than ever are courting the curly girl.

Curly Hair Product Spotlight: Macú Tees
Curly Hair Product Spotlight: Macú Tees

When women look at her t-shirts, Judy Hanson wants them to see themselves.

Cocktailing Products: Mixing up the Holy Grail
Cocktailing Products: Mixing up the Holy Grail

Any curly girl or stylist will tell you they have become makeshift chemists, creating their own mixtures of products in their search for the perfect solution for curls and kinks.

Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird in Your Hair!
Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird in Your Hair!

Franny B. Kranny thought her long, frizzy hair was beautiful.

Looking Good Through a Cold
Looking Good Through a Cold

We’ve got tips for looking good, even when you’re sick!

Don't it make my brown eyes . . . purple?!
Don't it make my brown eyes . . . purple?!

This summer, I discovered an online company that sells individual pairs of coloured lenses in varieties they call subtle, bold and dramatic. Comfort Lenses also makes theatrical-effects lenses for television, movies and stage productions. Though almost the same price for one pair as a box of the most popular brand, Fresh Look, the Comfort Lenses are supposedly suitable for daily wear for up to three months, so I suspect I will get a couple of years from my “dramatic green” and “bold violet”.

Don't It Make My Brown Eyes…Purple?
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes…Purple?

It was while researching my column for August 2004 about the makeup colours to suit different eye colours that I thought about buying colour contacts again. I thought it might be a good idea to put those colour theories to the test.

Bobbi Brown Beauty: The Ultimate Beauty Resource
Bobbi Brown Beauty: The Ultimate Beauty Resource

Celebrated makeup artist Bobbi Brown offers the ultimate illustrated beauty primer

Holiday Makeup Sparkles
Holiday Makeup Sparkles

A little sparkle, a little shine and soft color can create a festive, feminine look for the holidays.

Thoughts on Curls: Curls are Classy (A brief history)
Thoughts on Curls: Curls are Classy (A brief history)

An exploration of how Greek culture loved curls.

Freeze Frame!
Freeze Frame!

You will find minor benefits for wrinkles from products containing the following: alpha-lipoic acid, coenzyme Q-10, copper peptides, kinetin, soy isoflavones, tea extracts, vitamin C and vitamin E.

NaturallyCurly.com Helps Neighbors in Need
NaturallyCurly.com Helps Neighbors in Need

When Hurricane Katrina hit, it left hundreds of thousands of people in and around New Orleans without homes.

Twin Makeovers
Twin Makeovers

Curl guru Christo of Christo Fifth Avenue treated twin curly sisters to a makeover.

Even in children's books . . .
Even in children's books . . .

Cereal surprise, surprisingly negative about curls.

Happy to be Nappy
Happy to be Nappy

I want to get at the negative stigma and tell women that there is nothing wrong with wearing African-style hair.