Trump’s Tariffs Imperil US Black Hair Businesses
Earlier this summer, Dajiah Blackshear-Calloway, 34, started to notice that her regular clients weren’t visiting her hair salon as often as they used to. The salon, in Smyrna, Georgia, houses…
The Return of Estée Laundry
What do you call a sleeping watchdog? Estée Laundry, the anonymous Instagram account, first used the canine comparison to explain itself when it spawned to life in the spring of…
The Business of Beauty Global Forum: Our Place in Culture
NAPA, CALIFORNIA — On the first day of the third annual The Business of Beauty Global Forum, conversations delved into how the beauty industry is being shaped by changing cultural,…
Why Hair Tools Still Haven’t Won Over Textured Hair Consumers
Black women spend more on their hair than any other demographic. Yet the makers of hair tools, a popular and lucrative category, are failing to appeal to them. In 2024,…