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
Stories
Long-form editorial at the intersection of hair wellness, beauty science, culture, and identity. These are the pieces worth reading slowly.
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
7 pieces of editorial across Crown, Skin, Fashion, and Beauty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.