内容摘要：Many Black women have hair types and workplace-favored styles that require careful attention, and they can spend hundreds of dollars at salons each month on extensions, weaves, wigs and braids. The Associated Press spoke with several Black hair industry experts, beauty supply store owners, and wholesale companies, as well as nearly two dozen Black stylists and braiders, some of whom may have to raise prices even as business has slowed.

Many Black women have hair types and workplace-favored styles that require careful attention, and they can spend hundreds of dollars at salons each month on extensions, weaves, wigs and braids. The Associated Press spoke with several Black hair industry experts, beauty supply store owners, and wholesale companies, as well as nearly two dozen Black stylists and braiders, some of whom may have to raise prices even as business has slowed.

the attack is dwindling.Catholics attend an early morning Mass at the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, southern Japan Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Catholics attend an early morning Mass at the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, southern Japan Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)A statue of the Virgin Mary at the Urakami Cathedral that was damaged in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southern Japan, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)A statue of the Virgin Mary at the Urakami Cathedral that was damaged in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, southern Japan, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Remains of the former Urakami Cathedral wall,” a preserved section of the original cathedral destroyed in the atomic bombing on August 9, 1945, are seen in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)Remains of the former Urakami Cathedral wall,” a preserved section of the original cathedral destroyed in the atomic bombing on August 9, 1945, are seen in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

The Urakami Cathedral is seen in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Nov. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

The Urakami Cathedral is seen in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Nov. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)A player wearing a headscarf warms-up before a basketball game, in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

A player wearing a headscarf warms-up before a basketball game, in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)Former player Salimata Sylla prepares the players’ jerseys before a women’s basketball tournament where players can wear a headscarf, in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Former player Salimata Sylla prepares the players’ jerseys before a women’s basketball tournament where players can wear a headscarf, in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)Players prepare before a women’s basketball tournament where players can wear a headscarf, in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)