What Is a Hair Cuticle? Structure, Function, and the Open/Close Myth
I didn’t know how much power one microscopic layer had over my hair until my own bleaching era, when my ends went from smooth to catching on absolutely everything and no product I threw at them seemed to fix it. It wasn’t until my collaborating hair scientist actually walked me through pictures of a healthy […]
High Porosity Hair Explained: Best Products, Routine & Ingredients
For years, many of us in the curly hair community leaned on observation, trial, and shared experience to make sense of our hair. We learned to test our porosity by dropping a strand in a glass of water, sorted ourselves into low, medium, or high, and then chased the products that were supposed to match […]
Curl Cream for High Porosity Hair: Key Ingredients to Look For
Leave-ins are the non-negotiable in my high porosity routine, but a curl cream is what I reach for when I want more: more conditioning, more definition, and a more polished, pulled-together result. It is my somewhere-special-to-be product. Leaving it out still works, but the cream is the step that takes my curls from good to […]
Hair Porosity Guide: What Low and High Porosity Hair Really Mean
For years, many of us in the curly hair community treated porosity as one of the most important things we could learn about our hair. We took float tests, hunted for low-porosity routines, bought products marketed for high-porosity hair, and tried to explain nearly every problem through the lens of porosity. We were not completely […]