Here, four Black women—some who started going gray in the last couple of years and others who began at age 15—talk about what having gray hair means to them, feeling confident in their skin ...

I’m a biracial Black woman, and I have never colored or relaxed ... My confidence was soaring — until the gray started to appear. Although gray hair is indeed natural hair, I found the two ...

Half of the people in the world are said to have a significant amount of grey hair by age 50 ... it is in their late 30s; and for Black people, it is in their mid-40s. Greying is considered ...

Some women are embracing their gray hair, which Baird said she ... Erinkitola, who is Black, said everyday hair care and maintenance for Black women can take longer depending on the style or ...

including when it comes to their hair. At the time of its release, the concept of a Black woman wearing her natural curls was less common on social media. Brands were only beginning to acknowledge ...

I watched my mother color her gray roots over the bathroom ... of hair could land you a husband or job. Black women were routinely punished for their hair; former slave Louisa Picquet had her ...

In a post on Reddit's “True Off My Chest,” a 31-year-old woman wrote that she had recently found her first gray hair and "couldn't be happier" about it. "I know this might sound a bit unusual ...

As BLKMKT Vintage founder Kiyanna Stewart puts it, “I think that embracing greying hair looks different for everyone doing the embracing and that’s okay.” Here, four Black women – some who started ...

For Black women, gray hair and the natural hair movement seem to be strangely separate worlds. During my first pregnancy at age 36, my skin was resplendent, as it had been decades earlier.