Ease and joy are two things that Carolina Contreras, founder and CEO of Miss Rizos, hopes to bring to people through her upcoming products designed for curly and Afro-textured hair. “I knew, I knew, ...

Historically, beauty standards have favored straight hair and stigmatized textured hair as being unprofessional or messy. But in many Black and brown communities, hair has a cultural significance with ...

Thanks to a now industry-wide call to action against the marginalization of Afro hair, words like "coily," "kinky," and "Afro" are now autocorrect mainstays in my work as a beauty writer. The ...