If you have a Pinterest board full of knotless braids and a little voice in the back of your head saying “that could never be my hair,” I am writing this specifically for you. Knotless braids have completely taken over the protective style world, and honestly, for really good reasons. They look incredible in photos,…
Let me be honest with you right at the start: the first time I tried to cornrow my own hair, I made it exactly one section before the whole thing just… dissolved into a fuzzy question mark at the back of my head. I had watched people do this for years in the salon and…
Let me guess. You have a saved folder on Pinterest that is basically 80% braids. You tap every gorgeous french braid you see, fully intending to try it, and then you stand in the bathroom with your arms twisted behind your head and nothing goes the way you planned. The braid looks bumpy, one side…
Let me be honest with you about something. The first time I tried to dutch braid my own hair, I stood in front of the bathroom mirror for a solid twenty minutes, convinced I was doing it right, only to discover I had just made a very lopsided regular braid. I was frustrated. I almost…
If your Pinterest board is drowning in these gorgeous, curly, lived-in braids that somehow look both put-together and effortlessly undone, you are not alone and you are not imagining things. Boho braids are everywhere right now, and for good reason. They are the rare style that is genuinely protective, stunning for weeks at a time,…
Let me guess. You have a Pinterest board full of dreamy braids, you have looked at every single one of them, and you have thought some version of “that is beautiful, and I could never.” I want to gently call your bluff on the “never” part. Here is the thing almost nobody tells you. The…