The aches persisted in Mariam’s* hands—the instruments she used to work. She tried to ignore them. After all, she had no choice. “I felt the pain when I braided, but I had to continue,” she tells me.

Knotless braids are a hairstyle that seemingly offer, well, everything. "The pros of knotless braids include hair growth, styling flexibility, and they are weightless and pain-free," says Pearl ...

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As of July, braiding hair without a cosmetology license is no longer a crime in the state of Iowa. Two black women, Aicheria Bell and Achan Agit, filed a civil lawsuit against the state’s cosmetology ...