Black Voices: Short hair, don’t care.

Shirley P. Olin

Since March, many Black women decided to cut their natural hair short.  The increase of Black women cutting their hair over the pandemic is not only because of the limited access to hair salons and beauty supply stores, but also to the change in beauty standards, according to ZORA, a […]

‘She needs to cool down’

Shirley P. Olin

A woman won’t let her younger sister get the same tattoo as her and now the siblings are fighting.  She consulted Reddit’s “Am I the A******” forum for feedback. The woman’s sister has always envied her tattoos and for the little sister’s 18th birthday, the Reddit poster got her a […]

How will women look post-pandemic?

Shirley P. Olin

Women look a bit different than when the pandemic began. Loungewear for skirts, slippers for heels, bare faces for painted ones. Some of us are hairier, too.  Andrea DeWerd, 33, of Brooklyn, New York, works in book publishing and says “I’m never wearing makeup or blow drying my hair for work […]