Hair

Petra Bagust (Grey Areas) and Charlotte Cook (Hair And Loathing) share intimate details and personal stories about different parts of their bodies and how their hair impacts their everyday lives. Video, Audio

A new series called Hair Now has just launched on the Spinoff looking at six different migrant women's relationships with their body hair. Audio

Toes, tummies, upper lips, gorilla hands, chins and everywhere in-between...hair! It’s everywhere! And some of it, for good reason. Others, not so much. In this third episode of Hair and loathing… Audio

Western women have been pushed around by powerful marketing for around a century to maintain the hairless beauty standard, but that's not the same for all ethnicities. In episode four, presented and… Audio

Welcome to Hair and Loathing, a new four-part podcast series about women and body hair. Yep, we are talking bums, boobs, thighs, toes and tummies. You name it, it’s probably got some hair on it! In… Audio

Hair and Loathing is a new podcast series presented and produced by Charlotte Cook, and takes an inside look at why women maintain a 'barely there' look to satisfy the status quo and why some women… Audio

Hair removal specialist Nicola Wood answers listeners' questions about hair removal. Audio

It's long been considered a fact by many that stress turns out hair grey, but a new study has found evidence linking psychological stress to greying hair in people. Martin Picard, Ph.D., co-author of… Audio

A Dunedin teenager is butting heads with his high school over his hairstyle.

Lewis O'Malley-Scott's corn-rows were deemed to be extreme by King's High School.

But, as Timothy Brown reports, his… Video, Audio

The mullet is making a comeback - or did it ever leave? Audio

Breaking news from the world of showbiz, fringes are back. Rob Kelly, who is currently growing his hair, reports. Audio

A scientific study of more than 45,000 women has found a link between permanent hair dye and an increased risk of breast cancer. Cancer epidemiologist Diana Sarfati from the Cancer Control… Audio

Kiwi Gary McLean is a Professor of Immunology at the London Metropolitan University. He says the news on the Covid-19 front continues to be hugely concerning. In fact, he says this outbreak is… Audio

Dr. Eleanor Rycroft is a Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Bristol and has been looking at the question of when did beards suddenly become important? Audio

A 13-year-old boy is taking his school to court over their rules about hair length. Stuff reports James Hunt was stood down from Auckland Grammar for one day for refusing to cut his shoulder-length… Audio

Max Cryer attended the world premiere of Hair in New York in 1968, and joins us to tell us what it was like Audio

Nearly 50 years ago, the musical Hair premiered in New Zealand - causing outrage around the country, and the world, for its profanity, treatment of drugs and sex, and nudity. Audio, Gallery

Eight high schools have banned Afro and braided hairstyles. One view is that this is racist because some students have no control over how their hair grows. Is this racism or should students just… Audio

Everyone with tresses ranging from fiery copper to strawberry blonde have met in Wellington for the country's first national gathering of redheads. Video, Audio

Lawyer Michael Bott discusses another school boy hair to-do and the firing of a school religious instructor. Audio