Black Women With Locs. Five years ago, I began my loc journey as an act of liberation. I was no longer interested in conforming to beauty standards that didn’t see me.

I was inspired to loc my hair because: of a beautiful older black woman, who I’d seen 20 years prior to starting my locs. She initially encouraged me to go natural.

Faux locs have been around for decades, but we have Dr. Kari Williams and her celebrity clientele (Meagan Good, Eva Marcille and more) to thank for another wildly popular variation: goddess locs ...

The politics of black women’s hair: Why it’s seen with skepticism — and a need to discipline A new military ban on cornrows and locs misses an entire culture -- and evokes my nightly rituals ...

"My locs are far from dreadful, they are simply locs. They are beautiful, twisted sections of my hair," says April-Louise, one of the four women I met with photographer Olivia Ema while ...

In December 2021, Davis had micro locs installed by Anderson that she concealed with a wig for over a year. On Juneteenth, she decided to remove the wig on live TV, sharing her journey to hair ...

Do a Google image search for “dreadlocks” and the entire first row of images is of white people—mostly women, the one exception being an image of Johnny Depp in faux dreadlocks as Capt. Jack ...

When a Black person starts growing locs, there is a period of time many of us jokingly call “the ugly stage.” The truth is, there is nothing ugly about it. That’s why I try to avoid using ...

On May 16, the Supreme Court decided not to take on a case regarding a black woman who alleges that a job offer was revoked because of her locs.As Allure reports, eight years ago, Chastity Jones ...