EditorialMeagan Louis works on a client’s hair at Soignée BK, her salon in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, on July 2, 2022. (Makeda Sandford/The New York Times)
EditorialA client is styled with knotless braids at Braided, a salon in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, on July 1, 2022. (Makeda Sandford/The New York Times)
EditorialA volunteer, with braids in the blue and yellow of Ukraine’s flag, sorts through donations for people displaced by Russia’s invasion at a humanitarian aid hub in Lviv, Ukraine, May 3, 2022. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times)
EditorialThe celebrity hair stylist Cheryl Bergamy creates a red carpet-worthy braided bun in New York, Sept. 7, 2021. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)