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Annagjid “Kee” Taylor has come a long way from styling hair in her parent’s basement. In 2014, the Philadelphia-based salon owner became CEO of her own hair care line, Deeper Than Hair Sheer Genius Collection, which sells out regularly. Today, she works with stars like Tiffany Haddish, Keke Palmer and Tika Sumpter. Taylor is also […]

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Whether you’ve used quarantine as an opportunity to dive head-first into self-care, or you’ve struggled to maintain a routines through the anxieties and uncertainties of this “unprecedented time,” one of the routines we all may have lost sight of this past year is natural haircare and maintenance. Without regular access to a salon, maintaining your […]

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For the past handful of years, there has been a steady emergence of natural hair on designer runways and red carpets, in ad campaigns, and on TV — and that’s a very beautiful thing. In a world where, for so long, Eurocentric hairstyles, from straight and sleek to loose, styled curls, dominated the public spotlight, […]

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If you’ve been looking for a sign that it’s time to shake up your curl routine, here it is. For those of us with textured hair, the thought of adding new products to our trusted regimen can be somewhat terrifying. With so many of our favourite products being the result of dedicated trial and error […]

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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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Hair. It’s a powerful symbol of identity and self-image for many, and how a person chooses to style theirs can say a lot about them. For Black women in particular, this relationship is an incredibly complex one — a subject that’s intertwined with politics, culture and social pressures. In a world long dominated by Western […]

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“Subversion and protest can be very loud or very quiet,” said Cityline’s Tracy Moore on Monday afternoon. The daytime talk show host is leading a virtual chat with acclaimed actress, producer and L’Oréal Paris ambassador Viola Davis during the Toronto International Film Festival, and a handful of beauty industry insiders are glued to their WFH […]

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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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The Covid lockdown and stay-at-home orders have no doubt effected our relationships with our go-to beauty routines. Here, Tracy Peart, a body positivity advocate and the resident makeup artist for CityTV’s Breakfast Television Toronto and Cityline, shares how months of quarantine life has shifted her hair routine from a long-standing love affair with protective braids […]

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

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