Crown
The Cost Is Not on the Price Tag
The pink tax is the cost we were taught to count. The one with peer-reviewed evidence behind it does not show up at the register at all.
Sheree Wynn
5 min read
Sheree Wynn
Founder and Editor
Sheree Wynn is the founder and editor of Natural Girlies Magazine.
She was building things for textured hair long before she started writing about it. Wynn Essentials, the hair care line she runs with her sisters Patricia and Karina, grew out of the wash days the three of them were raised on. She wrote Business Basics for Braiding Hair for braiders who are running an entire business out of a chair and rarely get treated like it. Hair Wellness Lab and Braid Boss Pro exist because she went looking for those tools, could not find them, and built them herself. She is working on a master's in health systems with a concentration in artificial intelligence.
None of that makes her a dermatologist, and this magazine is never going to pretend otherwise. What it does mean is that every claim here traces back to peer reviewed research, and every study's limits get stated out loud: the small samples, the industry funding, the people the researchers did not include. If the evidence is thin, the article says so.
She writes from Los Angeles.
Stories by Sheree
Crown
Maybe It Was Never the Ingredient
Four traditions from four parts of the world, ranked by what the research actually supports. The order does not match how popular they are, and the two with the best evidence have something in common.
Sheree Wynn
6 min read
Crown
The Study Everyone Cites Describes Two Patients
Almost everything written about hair transplants for Black women is published by people selling hair transplants. Here is what the underlying research actually contains, and what a surgeon should be able to tell you.
Sheree Wynn
5 min read
Crown
The Two-Week Rule Is a Floor, Not a Ceiling
Dermatologists say to wash textured hair at least every two to three weeks. Most of us read that as permission to wait longer, and the scalp is where that misreading shows up.
Sheree Wynn
5 min read
Crown
It Was Never About Attraction
Hair bias gets discussed as a matter of personal taste. The research that actually measured it was studying job interviews, and taste is not a thing anyone can be held accountable for.
Sheree Wynn
4 min read
Crown
Your Hair Is Doing Something Straight Hair Cannot Do
Frizz is usually explained as damage or as a failure of your products. The measurement says it is a property of curly fiber that straight fiber does not have, and researchers have only recently caught it.
Sheree Wynn
5 min read
Crown
Your Hair Is Growing. That Is Not the Same Thing as Getting Longer.
Growth happens at the scalp. Length happens at the ends. The research on African hair says most of us are losing the second one while the first works exactly as it should.
Sheree Wynn
5 min read