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  • 1 min read

    What Water Actually Does

    Hair that feels soft holds less water than hair that feels dry. Why the surface reads as roughness, what hydrating products are really doing, and why bone-dry is its own problem.

  • 2 min read

    How to Brush Your Hair

    Brushing has three modes: dry, before a wash, and in the shower. They do different jobs, and in one of them the rules reverse.

  • 2 min read

    How to Choose a Hairbrush

    Three rules rule out most bad brushes, and the rest is knowing what each type is for. Including the brush itself, which needs washing once a week.

  • 2 min read

    How to Dry Your Hair

    Wet hair is weaker and rougher, so how you dry matters more than what you dry with. The distances and temperatures that have been measured, and where the real threshold sits.

  • 1 min read

    Making Colour Last

    Colour lives inside the hair, not on it, and leaves a little at a time with every wash. Five small decisions that each take away less of it than usual.

  • 1 min read

    Second-Day Hair

    A style doesn't survive the night intact, and it isn't meant to. How to bring the shape back with what is already on your hair, instead of starting over.

  • 1 min read

    Sleeping On Your Hair

    Eight hours on a pillow is the longest thing you do to your hair and the one nobody supervises. Four small changes that decide what you wake up to.

  • 1 min read

    What shampoo is actually for

    Shampoo does its real work on your scalp, not the lengths. A calm guide to washing twice, using your fingertips, and the pre-wash brush that makes it all easier.

  • 1 min read

    When Your Routine Stops Working

    The routine that suited you perfectly has stopped, and you changed nothing. Five things that change around a product, none of which is the product going bad.

  • 1 min read

    Where Frizz Comes From

    Frizz is a few thousand strands that dried out of alignment, rather than a property your hair has. Which means it settles before the hair is dry, not after.

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