"I want it really short," I told my hairstylist Derrick Keith this summer, while sitting in the salon chair at Hairstory Studio. After a 15-month hiatus in Los Angeles, I was back in New York City and ...

If you’re considering doing the big chop, you may be going through a wide range of emotions. Black women have a sacred attachment to our hair and it can be hard to see it all go. The good news is ...