Hair
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Magazine
Hair That Puts Your Best Face Forward
At the recent fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris, the many wet waves, curly mullets and braids of all sizes in the crowds seemed to be styled with a shared philosophy: Keep it tight at the top. Hair, no matter the length or the flow ...
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Permanent Lettuce: A Pageant of Hockey Hair
At Minnesota’s state hockey tournament, outrageously coifed high school stars competed for the best “salad” and “flow.” And then the games began.
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World
Overlooked No More: Pierre Toussaint, Philanthropist and Candidate for Sainthood
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In 1849, Mary Ann Schuyler, a wealthy New Yorker, was reminded fondly of her longtime hairdresser ...
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Magazine
Losing Hair, Gaining Followers
Zeph Sanders was 20 when his hair began to fall out. As it thinned from the density of AstroTurf to spare wisps, he hid his head under a beanie before logging on to play video games on the livestreaming platform Twitch. “I started getting people in ...
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World
Need Therapy? In West Africa, Hairdressers Can Help.
An initiative to train hairdressers in mental health counseling is providing relief to hundreds of clients in a region with the world’s least access to therapy.
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Magazine
The Bergdorf Blonde Moves to Park Avenue
The location has changed, but clients such as Hillary Clinton and Martha Stewart remain loyal to Parvin Klein, a colorist who perfected an iconic hair color.
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Arts
For Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Hair Is Rooted in Pride
The Philadelphia artist’s show at Artists Space considers how hair cutting, grooming and caregiving help create a Black queer community.
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Arts
When a Seat in the Theater Means a Seat in the Salon
“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is a play where the Black women in the audience are the ones who feel most at home.
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World
A Scientist’s Salons in Paris Cater to a Neglected Trait: Curly Hair
With a Ph.D. in chemistry and inspired by her daughter, Aude Livoreil-Djampou is trying to address the dearth of salon options in France for people with coiled or curly hair.
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World
Breaths of Fresh Hair
After witnessing what appeared to be a total democratization of hairstyles at fashion weeks in February and March, I was interested to see what cuts and colors might emerge in the crowds during the latest fashion month, which started in September in ...
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