Pro-Line’s Curly Kit Home Permanent sold for $8 a box and allowed people to do their own Jheri curls at home instead of going to salons, which had been charging $200 to $300. Forbes magazine in ...

An at-home product, Curly Kit allowed people to reproduce the loose, shiny Jheri curl hairstyle invented by Jheri Redding and popularized by Michael Jackson, Rick James and other performers.

The Jheri curl's ubiquity in black communities was lampooned in pop culture. The 1988 comedy "Coming to America" featured a fictional product called "Soul Glo," which gave users a shiny hairstyle ...

Cottrell, an entrepreneur who made millions on black hair products, especially a cheap kit that brought the celebrity Jheri curl style into the homes of average African Americans, has died. He was 82.

Willie Morrow, the inventor of the Afro pick and Jheri Curl hairstyle is remembered as a pioneering Black hairstylist and local business man. He died at 82 on Wednesday, June 22, 2022.

Willie Morrow was an innovator and entrepreneur, inventing the Afro Pick and the Jheri Curl hairstyle.

It’s “Jheri Curl”, not “Gerrell Curl.” I had scribbled down extensive notes while Thea Rhinehardt explained to me the history of tending to her black hair over the four decades of her ...

Next up at East West Players, playwright Inda Craig-Galván’s The Great Jheri Curl Debate opening September 17 (with previews beginning September 15). Scarlett Kim directs the cast of Julanne ...

By Larry Brown. Pedro Martinez had one request when he was voted into the Hall of Fame:Make sure the image on my plaque includes my Jheri curl. Thankfully those in Cooperstown didnâ t let him ...

The Jheri curl's ubiquity in black communities was lampooned in pop culture. The 1988 comedy "Coming to America" featured a fictional product called "Soul Glo," which gave users a shiny hairstyle ...