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Through all the twist-outs, wash-and-gos and high puffs in my six years of being natural, protective styles that use synthetic or human hair extensions reign supreme as my favourite way to style my afro-textured hair and help it thrive. From cold winter air to wet summer humidity, protective styles tuck your own hair away from […]

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With its continuous stay-at-home orders keeping us in a steady holding pattern over the past several months, the pandemic has seen many women of colour with afro-textured hair leave their regular relaxer treatments, weaves and protective hairstyles behind and embrace their natural curls and coils. If you’re new to the natural hair game, crafting a […]

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I can remember the horrible — and illuminating — experience so vividly. I was in my teens living in my hometown in central Alberta, and my mom had booked me into a local hair salon for a trim. Back then, I was addicted to chemical relaxers — something I continued to religiously apply to my […]

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How natural hair specialist Nancy Falaise is teaching young Canadian Black girls to love their respective hair textures.

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With isolation and social-distancing still part of our new normal in continuing to combat the spreading of the coronavirus, and once-barred salons only now slowly reopening, many of us have had to re-evaluate and switch up our go-to beauty regimens over the past several months, from nails to brows and, of course, hair. If pre-Covid […]

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Life under lockdown has inspired many people—celebs included—to change up their looks all on their own. Truth John, a Toronto-based model, is one of those social distancing transformations. Truth has been spending her quarantine life on the island of Saint Kitts for the past several months, and at the beginning of April, she said goodbye […]

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Welcome to Texture Talk, a weekly column that celebrates and deep dives into the dynamic world of curly hair, from crowns of curls that are free flowing to strands that are tucked away in a protective style. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been chatting a lot about wigs in this series, knowing very […]

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Welcome to Texture Talk, a weekly column that celebrates and deep dives into the dynamic world of curly hair, from crowns of curls that are free flowing to strands that are tucked away in a protective style. In today’s day and age, it shouldn’t be a secret that wig-life is alive and well, especially within […]

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Welcome to Texture Talk, our weekly column that celebrates and deep dives into the dynamic world of curly hair, from crowns of curls that are free flowing to hair that’s tucked away in a protective style. This week, a textured hair expert to the stars shares his dos and don’ts when it comes to wig […]

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And it’s exactly what the mainstream beauty industry has long been missing.

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The highs, the lows and everything in between.

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Backstage at Rodarte, I bumped into former FASHION cover girl Jessica Stam, who opened the show. I almost didn’t recognize her because of her raven hair, which she switched to a few months ago for the Met’s Schiaparelli and Prada exhibit. The shade really seemed to suit the “modern medieval” look and severe side parts Odile Gilbert crafted to appear as though models had shaved one half of their head. “I did it [again] a week ago,” Stam said of her new colour, leaving out the part about it being a cover up for a dye job gone wrong.