Hair

Hairstyles for a formal dress come down to one rule: volume goes in one place, not two. If the dress carries its drama at the neckline or the shoulders, the hair goes up or back. If the neckline is quiet, the hair can be the event. What no gallery tells you is what the dress … Read more

Festival hair fails for three reasons, and none of them is the style you chose. Dry shampoo builds up faster than a weekend allows, a braid worn tight for seventy-two hours is more tension than a hairline can absorb, and glitter is engineered not to come off. Plan the takedown at the same time as … Read more

Hair jewelry does not damage hair by being metal. It does it by adding weight to a style that is already pulling, and by catching the cuticle on a rough edge every time it moves. Choose light pieces with smooth interiors, size them so they slide instead of grip, and take them out before the … Read more

Dandruff is a common, non-contagious scalp condition that produces itching and white or yellow flakes of dead skin. It is not caused by poor hygiene, it is not rare, and the yeast behind it lives on nearly every scalp already. What most guides leave out is that the treatment schedule changes depending on hair type. … Read more

Hair porosity describes how readily water crosses into the hair shaft and how long it stays there once inside. Low porosity resists water going in and, having taken it in, holds onto it. High porosity absorbs quickly and loses it just as quickly. What almost every guide on this subject leaves out is that porosity … Read more

Irish curls describe hair where the top layer sits straighter or looser than the layers underneath it. The canopy reads as straight or softly waved, while the sections at the nape, behind the ears and under the crown form tighter waves or curls. It is not a hair type, it is not rare, and the … Read more

Wavy hair splits into three types. 2A is a loose, open S that only appears near the ends. 2B is a defined S that starts around the mid-length. 2C is a deep S that begins at the root and occasionally tips into a loose spiral. One measurement separates them, and it is not how wavy … Read more

Pick one of the hairs off your shoulder and look at the end. A shed hair is full length and has a small pale bulb on one end, because it came away at the root. A broken hair is shorter than the rest of your hair, has no bulb, and usually ends in a ragged … Read more

Sunlight does two separate jobs on your head. UVB breaks down the protein in the hair fiber, and UVA shifts its color. Neither reverses, because a strand of hair is not living tissue and cannot repair itself. The scalp underneath is living skin, so it burns, it heals, and it is the only one of … Read more

Straight hair is the usual answer, and for once the usual answer holds up. Type 1 is the most widespread curl pattern worldwide, mostly because the regions where straight hair predominates are also the regions holding the largest populations. What almost no page on this question does is show the measurement behind the claim. One … Read more