Let me tell you something I wish someone had told me at 20, standing in a dorm bathroom with a box of dark auburn dye and roughly zero knowledge of hair science: the orange situation that followed was not the end. I did not have to shave it off. I did not have to cry…
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…