Let me tell you something I figured out the hard way. For a solid stretch of my early twenties, I was deep conditioning my hair every single week, using a genuinely good product, and my hair was still dry. Still snapping at the ends. Still looking kind of dull no matter what I did. I…
Let me tell you something I wish someone had told me when I first started taking hair seriously: your scalp is not an afterthought. It is the whole foundation. Everything that grows out of it, the thickness, the shine, the length you’ve been trying to hold onto forever, starts with what’s happening at that skin…
If you have been anywhere near Pinterest or TikTok lately, you have seen rice water. You have probably seen the clips of women with waist-length, mirror-shiny hair crediting a simple bowl of starchy water from their kitchen. And you have probably thought one of two things: “This is incredible, I need to try this immediately,”…
Here is something I wish someone had told me before I spent two years frustrated with my “slow-growing” hair: most people’s hair is already growing. The problem is not the growth. It is everything that happens after the hair leaves your scalp. Your hair grows roughly half an inch per month, or about six inches…
There is a specific kind of frustration that comes from looking in the mirror and realizing your hair looks, well, flat. Not damaged, not broken, just dull. Like someone turned the brightness down. Your cut is still good. Your color is technically fine. But the shine you had right after your last salon visit has…
Every fall, my Pinterest boards go absolutely feral. Moody coppers. Glossy espresso browns. That deep cherry cola shade that makes someone’s eyes look like they belong in a Renaissance painting. I save them all, and I know you do too. But here’s what I also know, because I’ve been in this world long enough to…
I’m going to start with something I wish someone had told me before I ever picked up a box of dye in a dorm bathroom in my early twenties: the most beautiful hair colors you see on Pinterest are not as out of reach as they feel. Blonde balayage in particular has a reputation for…
I remember staring at a saved photo on my phone for about three weeks before I finally committed to my first thigh piece. It was a botanical wrap, fine-line leaves that curved from my outer hip down toward my knee, and I loved the idea. What I did not have was any real sense of…
Let me start with a small confession. For years I told myself copper wasn’t for me. I had this idea that really vivid, warm hair colors were the exclusive territory of certain skin tones or certain levels of boldness, and I wasn’t sure I had either. Then I spent time in a salon watching colorists…
The shoulder is one of the most-pinned tattoo placements on the internet, and honestly, I get it. A well-placed shoulder tattoo does something that few other spots can: it moves with you, it reveals itself on your own terms, and it has this effortless quality, visible in a tank top, hidden under a blazer, completely…