I know what you’re thinking: At-home relaxer kits are for amateurs, especially kitchen-beauticians who think they know it all. But, in all honesty, applying relaxers is about technique and having the ...

Common cause of scalp burn is when the relaxer is left on the hair for longer than necessary. When I did my first ever perm, the hairdresser applied some petroleum jelly on the tips of my ears and ...

Relaxing your own roots is notoriously difficult to get right and can be damaging to the hair. But you do have options. By Crystal Martin Much of the conversation surrounding black hair in recent ...

Danielle Ward Mason started using hair relaxer when she was eight years old. "When I was a child, I always wanted to engage in things that were active; I wanted to be a cheerleader. I wanted to swim.