What I Keep Seeing Come Through the Door Shrinkage is not something to work around. I’ve been saying this in my head for about two …
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Curly Hairstyles for Medium Hair for Black Women: Better Definition, Less Frizz
What Changed When I Stopped Following the Product Routine Three weeks ago I adjusted how I’m handling a very specific situation and I keep thinking …
Mid Length Layers for Black Women: Where Most Stylists Get It Wrong
Where Stylists Start Cutting and Where They Should Something changed for me about two years ago in how I approach layering mid-length hair, and it …
How Dark Brown Dimension Works on Black Women’s Hair
Placement Doesn’t Work the Same Way Here Three weeks ago I stopped mid-foil on a head and just looked at what I was doing. Not …
Butterfly Haircut for Black Women: What Changes When Shrinkage Is the Variable
What I’ve Been Seeing Lately The ends are the problem. Not the shape, not the layers, not the technique itself — the ends. Specifically, what …
Growing Hair Past the Collar Bone When You’re a Black Woman
What Changes at That Point on the Neck Something weird happens at collar bone length on natural hair. Not metaphorically. Actually physically. The hair starts …
Curtain Bangs Medium Hair for Black Women: Expert Tips
The way I was parting these before was wrong. The way I was parting these before was wrong. Not catastrophically wrong, not wrong in a …
Aesthetic Hair for Black Women: What’s Actually Happening at the Hairline
What I Keep Seeing at the Hairline Three clients came in this month with thinning around their edges that they said they hadn’t noticed six …
Haircuts for Black Women with Round Faces: Beyond the Basic Advice
What I Actually See When Someone Sits Down There’s a tendency in this industry to treat round face shape like it’s a problem with one …
Short Hairstyles for Black Women That Make Sense Beyond Day One
Texture Before Length Three times this week I’ve started a consultation and the client had a photo on her phone of a cut that looked …