Good hair does not require an hour and a full set of tools. This section covers cuts, colors and styles that hold up on an ordinary weekday, broken down by hair type and length so you are not guessing whether something will work on fine hair or thick hair. You will also find salon guidance here, because half of a good haircut is knowing how to describe what you want.
Most fall hairstyle roundups get shot on hair that is somewhere between fine and medium, the kind that takes a curling wand well and falls back into place with a shake. Thick hair does not behave that way. It holds more weight, takes longer to dry, and shrugs off a lot of the five-minute tricks…
Curtain bangs get requested more than almost any other fringe style, and round faces get told to avoid bangs more than almost any other face shape. Put those two things together and a lot of people walk into consultations unsure whether the style will actually work for them, or whether a stylist is about to…
School mornings do not really have a hair problem. They have a time problem. Between the alarm and the bus there are maybe forty minutes, and hair gets whatever is left after breakfast, the missing shoe, and the permission slip nobody mentioned until 7:15. So the useful list is not the prettiest styles. It is…
My sister has the finest hair I have ever seen on a human being. Baby-soft, shiny, and completely allergic to holding any kind of shape. For years she wore it long and one length because someone told her once that layers would “eat” her hair. Then last spring she walked into a salon on a…