Okay, real talk. You have spent a solid amount of time on Pinterest saving short haircut ideas, and somewhere between your 12th bixie pin and your 20th French bob your brain started whispering, “but what if it looks awful on me?” I hear you. I have been that person. Back in my salon assistant days…
I’ll be honest with you: the first time I tried to shape coffin nails on my own hands, one of them came out looking like a slightly aggressive spatula. Not my finest hour. But here is the thing, the shape itself is not actually that hard once you understand the logic behind it. The reason…
I have a very specific memory from my salon assistant days in Austin. One of the senior stylists I worked under, a woman who had been doing hair for over 20 years, wore a low bun to work almost every single day. It was never the same bun twice. Some days it was sleek and…
The question I get most often from friends before they book a tattoo is some version of “is this a good idea?” But when the question involves a mother-daughter tattoo, it gets a little more tender. There’s something different about a piece of ink that represents a relationship. It’s not just “do I love this…
I have a confession. The very first nail shape I ever actually practiced was not almond. It was square, because square is forgiving. You file straight across, call it a day, move on. Almond felt like something you had to earn, like a shape reserved for people with long, graceful fingers and an enviable amount…
Here’s a scenario I hear constantly: you get a wedding invitation, you immediately start saving hair inspo on Pinterest, you build a whole board of gorgeous styles, and then the day before the wedding you look at those pins and think, “Yeah, I could never actually do that.” And then you just wear your hair…
There is a text I get more than almost any other from my friends. It reads something like: “We decided we want to get sibling tattoos. We have no idea where to start. Help.” I love getting that text. Not because I have all the answers ready for them, but because that moment, the one…
Let me tell you something I wish someone had told me the first time I opened Pinterest and immediately closed my phone in defeat: short nails are not the problem. I spent so long convinced that beautiful nail art was a length thing, like the canvas was too small and anything I tried would just…
Let me tell you something I wish someone had told me earlier: if your claw clip keeps sliding out, it is almost never your hair’s fault. It is the clip’s fault. Specifically, it is a clip-to-hair-type mismatch, and once you fix that one thing, half the hairstyles in this post go from frustrating to genuinely…
The question I get more than almost any other is some version of this: “Riley, we want to get a couple tattoo. Where do we even start?” It’s one of my favorite questions to answer, because it tells me something important about the person asking. They are thoughtful. They are not just pulling a design…