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Be Beautiful. Be Natural. Be You.

The Best Oils for High Porosity Hair, Minus the Sealing Myth

Glass dropper releasing a drop of golden oil onto dark high porosity curls, with the title Best Oils for High Porosity Hair.

My high porosity hair used to drink up every product I owned and still feel dry and frizzy by mid-afternoon. The advice I kept hearing was to reach for oil, a heavy one, and layer it on to seal all that moisture in. So that is what I did, piling on thicker and thicker oils, […]

How to Use Oil for Curly Hair: A Science-Backed Guide (Without the Myths)

Curly-haired woman applying golden oil to her curls.

If you have curly hair, someone has probably told you to keep oil away from it: that oil suffocates your strands, weighs curls down, turns lightened hair yellow, or simply does not belong on textured hair. I never bought it. On my own bleached, high-porosity curls, oil was one of the few things that genuinely […]