Afro-Latina

It’s day two of Afro-Latina Beauty Week! Today’s topic: Tatyana Ali’s incredibly shiny hair.

To get hair with this much sheen, you first need it to be incredibly healthy—which can be hard to achieve when your texture is very coarse or curly. The goal is to moisturize every chance you get. Hydrated hair looks shinier because the cuticle (the outer layer of the hair,...

2010 census results are in and there was one incredibly interesting new trend in Puerto Rico. For the first time ever, the number of Puerto Ricans identifying themselves solely as black or American Indian jumped about 50 percent in the last decade. This is a marked shift from previous census results.

“It truly breaks with a historic pattern,” Jorge Duany...

When I relaxed my hair it was really shiny. Now that I’ve gone natural, is there a way to get that shine again?

Thanks for the question! I reached out to Nancy Jiminian, a gorgeous Afro-Latina stylist for Serge Normant at John Frieda salon in NYC, who explains that the reason your hair was so shiny was because of your relaxer. “It...