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Women's hair

April 2024

  • Gloria Moraa

    The truth about hair relaxers: in the US, lawsuits over cancer. In Africa, soaring sales

  • A man and woman, both in white T-shirts and demin overshirts, standing next to each other, facing the camera, against a grey background

    Notes and queries
    Why do men have short hair and women long hair?

March 2024

  • Hairdresser, Aude Livoreil-Djampou, right, laughs with one of the staff

    French parliament backs bill to stop hair discrimination against black women

  • Jodie Turner-Smith in a giant bow for the Vogue World red carpet.

    Fit to be tied: why are bows absolutely everywhere in 2024?

  • Hoda Afshar - For My Best Shot only

    My best shot
    Hair-plaiting for the Iranian resistance: Hoda Afshar’s best photograph

  • The head of a balding man.

    Science Weekly
    Why do we lose our hair as we age, and what can we do about it? – podcast

February 2024

  • The singer Miley Cyrus wears a huge, back-brushed hairdo at the 2024 Grammy Awards.

    ‘Tease it to Jesus!’ – the beatific return of big hair

    An expression of racial pride, a mark of social status, a shield to insecurity … voluminous hair has meant many things to many people over the years
  • Eva Wiseman

    The Eva Wiseman column
    Could the pubic wig usher in a flourishing of the female bush?

    Eva Wiseman
    The viral success of John Galliano’s merkin is a sign of progress – but let’s not get too excited

    • Head scratcher: scalp care is booming, but will it make a hair of difference?

    • The beauty spot
      Rosy glow: how to wear pink makeup

    • Pass notes
      The haircut scandal: why do women pay so much more than men?

January 2024

  • Tayo Bero

    Why can’t white America leave Black children’s hair alone?

    Tayo Bero
  • Woman with grey hair blowing across her face.<br>Woman with long, silvery, grey hair blowing across her face, close up.

    I caved in to vanity and dyed my grey hair black – and instantly regretted it

    Rosalind Moran
  • cartoon of cool older woman with pink hair and tattoos

    The beauty Q&A
    Is it still OK to colour my hair pink in my 50s?

  • illustration of jewelled straighteners with £20 notes between the plates

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Can you find decent hair straighteners for less than the price of a vacuum cleaner?

  • Jennifer Aniston’s Proustian haircut – a portal to a happier time

    Zoe Williams

  • The beauty Q&A
    I can’t afford salon blow-dries. How do I get the look at home?

  • Sali Hughes on beauty
    Most impulse beauty buys are useless – but these actually work

December 2023

  • hairbrush in block of ice illustration Assistant : Declan Slattery @decslattery Brush: Mason Pearson Pocket Boar Bristle Hairbrush @masonpearsonbros

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Put the scissors away: the next generation of products to repair damaged winter hair

  • 2023 Champion Mitchell White with his trophies

    Grubby and extreme: Mulletfest 2023 – in pictures

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