We spent hours testing 13 hair dryers, ranging in price from $39 to $429. We tested them on four hair textures: fine and straight-to-wavy, thick and curly, 4b curls, and thick and wavy-to-curly.

I didn’t exactly set out to follow the so-called Wavy Girl Method, an offshoot of the popular Curly Girl hair care plan, but I’ve naturally gravitated toward practices that benefit my 2B ...

The ratio was negligible for straight hair, about 0.8 for wavy, 1.1 for kinky, and 1.4 for curly.

The predecessor to “surfer curtains” was the “broccoli cut.” The surfer look gives those without curly or wavy hair a chance at getting some desired volume and shape.

Dear girls with curly hair, we love your hair. But we also know how it gets difficult to manage them every day. Unlike the straight or wavy hair types, curly hair comes with its own unique set of ...