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What is My Hair Type?

We humans love to categorize things. So did hair stylist Andre Walker, best known as Oprah Winfrey’s hair guru and creator of the hair type system used to categorize the most common types o...

How to Care for Coarse Hair

Coarse is an inelegant word for hair strands that are larger than average in diameter, or thicker. Coarse hair isn’t a problem to be corrected or a condition to be relieved; it’s simply a f...

How to Have Healthy Hair

If you think your hair is healthy, you probably wouldn’t be reading this. But if it’s not, you’re not alone. With the right hair care routine and the right hair products, you'll be on your ...

Accept (and celebrate) the Hair Nature Gave You

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”– Kurt Cobain Hair is among the top three features – with height and weight – used when describing others, and one of the most often r...

No More Dry Scalp: How to Moisturize Your Scalp and Hair

Experiencing hair breakage, frizz and split ends? Sounds like a classic case of hair dryness. Struggling with dry hair is no fun. If you’re one of the many people who use words like straw,...

Hair Care is Self-care

At a time when workaholism is a virtue and when bragging rights go to the most overscheduled, when food is eaten too fast to taste and ‘wasting’ even a moment is frowned upon, it’s no wonde...

The No Wash Method: Does it Work?

This may sound like a crazy question, but should you wash your hair or not? As the news about the adverse effects of shampoo spreads, more and more people are starting to search for alterna...

What is Co-washing: Why? Who? How?

THE TERM Coined almost a decade ago by the curly hair community, co-wash stands for "conditioner-only hair washing," which involves relying solely on conditioner, and not shampoo, to keep hair m...

How to Co-Wash and Avoid the Most Common Mistakes

BLURRING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN CLEANSING AND CONDITIONING: DO BOTH AT THE SAME TIME. Once upon a time, we washed our hair with shampoo and a chaser of conditioner. But, like most aspects of ...