For a seamless look, braid or flat-twist the hair under the wig, leaving out just enough hair along the U-part to cover the wig’s tracks. Use a wig cap to keep everything flat and secure.

Consumer Reports found that several hair companies may be marketing cancer-causing synthetic hair products to Black women.

set out to find an answer to this very question. Thomas says she went to a professional stylist to have braids done using what she recalls was the popular synthetic hair brand Kanekalon.