Hair shrinkage—when curls tighten up from an outstretched form to a compact coil—still occurs with locs. Loc shrinkage is ...

Like Lesley, I’ve experienced my fair share of thinning and that, combined with my struggle to come to terms with shrinkage and the insatiable desire to achieve longer, fuller hair, meant that ...

my hair wasn’t actually short– it was the shrinkage, something that’s bound to happen with coily, Afro-textured hair and a characteristic of our hair texture that can lead to a fixation on growth for ...