Joining Kate today is Professor Jill Burke, author of How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity, to help us uncover this history. This episode was edited and ...

For those of us who have been dyeing, highlighting, balayaging, glossing, and toning our hair for years, it's more than the ...

Hair loss is common in men and women ... In many cultures and periods of history, baldness has been revered, from ancient Egypt to the 18th century people of Issini (modern-day Ghana).

Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer advertisement. Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution The Museum’s collection of ...

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Concerns about personal appearance have often motivated hair removal practices.