Doriane Washington, Krystle Rucker and Maria Carmona at Rucker's KRB Hair Studio, 209 Roya Lane in Bryant, Feb. 19
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Aaron Gettinger)
Black Americans spent $6.6 billion on beauty products in 2021, business analyst McKinsey & Company reports, and wherever people live, from Burlington, Vt., to Fairbanks, Alaska, to Saline County, there are Black barber shops, beauty parlors and estheticians.
