Female adults can lay about six eggs a day ... a beast to try and get those lice combs through afro-textured hair,” says Mortenson, who often recommends that Black customers straighten their ...

But while they’re nimble on our hair, once they’re off, they don’t last long –they’re clumsy, uncoordinated and die quickly. The term “nits” actually describes the eggs of head lice.

The tiny critters can be tricky to get rid of; they can't be drowned, the louse camouflages her eggs with hair pigment making it harder to spot, and a lot of the treatments target the moving lice ...