2A Hair Guide: How to Identify and Care for Your Loose Waves
Most 2A advice starts from the wrong place. It treats your loose waves like underachieving curls that need more product, more moisture, and more steps to behave. Working with people who have 2A hair taught me the opposite is true: the fastest way to flatten a soft wave is to weigh it down, so 2A […]
Best Gels for High Porosity Hair: What Actually Stops Frizz
My high porosity hair can look perfectly defined when I leave the house and turn into a frizzy halo the moment I hit humidity. The advice I kept hearing was to pile on heavier products to seal the moisture in and block the humidity out, but that mostly left my curls coated and still frizzy. […]
How to Choose the Best Gel for Low Porosity Hair (Ingredient Guide)
Nothing is more frustrating than a gel that flakes the moment your hair dries, leaves a crunch that will not soften, or drags your curls into a flat, greasy mess by day two. With low porosity hair, that is usually not a bad gel. It is the formula sitting on top of a tightly packed […]
Low Porosity Hair: Products, Ingredients & Care Tips
If you have low porosity hair, you have heard the rules. Your hair does not absorb moisture. Products just sit on top. You need special products, warm water, steam, and a cabinet full of moisture. Here is what nobody told me: most of that is solving the wrong problem. I accepted those explanations for years […]
2B Hair Guide: How to Identify and Care for Your Waves
Wavy hair gets written off as “almost curly” or “just frizzy straight hair,” and I have worked with so many people whose 2B waves got treated exactly that way, fighting the frizz and piling on heavier and heavier products to force definition. Seeing it up close is what changed how I think about this texture: […]
Curly Gray Hair: How to Care for It, Backed by the Science of Why It Changes
My silvers are coming in, and I will be honest: the first ones felt less like wisdom and more like my hair quietly changing the rules on me. The strands felt coarser, wirier, and harder to style than the curls I had spent years learning. So I did what I always do when my hair […]
How Your Hair Changes As You Age
Aging is a natural process that affects every part of our body, including our hair. As we grow older, our body cells gradually degrade, leading to visible signs such as wrinkles, fine lines, and a decrease in skin elasticity. The body has its own internal clock, where older cells die off and are replaced by […]
Is It Really Important to Know Your Curl Pattern?
Curl patterns are unique characteristics of human hair that vary across different ethnic groups and regions worldwide.1,2 These variations arise from the different structures within the hair cortex. So, why does knowing your curl pattern matter? Does it affect the hair’s physical and chemical properties? And, do different curl patterns require customized hair care routines? […]
10 Best Products for 2B Hair
2B hair is a subcategory of type 2 wavy hair. It might just be the ideal pattern for those beachy waves, the most versatile hair, and is easy to manage. But that only applies if you use the right products to ensure it always looks and feels its best. Below is a list of my […]
10 Best Products for 2C Hair
2C, with its distinct s-shaped curls, represents the most defined pattern within the spectrum of wavy hair textures. This natural texture, lying at the intersection of straight hair and more pronounced curls, showcases a stunning shape and character when given proper care. However, without the right products, even this wavy hair pattern can appear dull […]