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…
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…
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…
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve tried to recreate a dreamy, effortless messy bun from Pinterest and ended up with something that looked more like a sad, deflated donut on the back of my head. If that sounds familiar, you are absolutely not alone, and I promise the problem is almost never your…
I have a very clear memory of the first time I tried to copy an updo I found online. I was twenty-two, I had just started my salon-assistant days in Austin, and I thought watching stylists all day meant I was basically a professional. I attempted some kind of twisted low bun that looked absolutely…