Heat Protection Spray: How to Choose One and Use It Properly

A heat protection spray coats the hair fibre so heat spreads evenly instead of hitting one spot. Here is what the temperatures actually mean, how to apply a spray so it covers every section, and wh...

Eyelash and Eyebrow Hair: Why It Thins and How to Care for It

Eyelash and eyebrow hair grows on a much shorter cycle than scalp hair, which is why lashes never grow past a certain length. This guide explains what thins lashes and brows, how to care for them g...

Peptides in Hair Care: What They Do and How to Use Them

Peptides in hair care are small pieces of protein that coat and smooth damaged hair. This guide explains what they are, what they can and cannot do, how to spot them on an ingredients list, who sho...

Combining Hair Care Products: The Right Order and Pairings

Combining hair care products works best when each one has a single job. This guide shows the right order to apply them, which pairings suit thin, dry, curly and heat-styled hair, which combinations...

Tender Scalp: Why It Hurts and How to Calm It

A tender scalp is skin pain rather than hair pain, and most of it comes from tension: ponytails, buns, braids and years of the same parting. Here are the eight causes, what settles soreness within ...

Greasy Roots Between Washes: Why It Happens and What Helps

Greasy roots between washes are driven by sebum, genetics and hair type, not by anything you are doing wrong. Here is why the ends stay dry while the roots go flat, why washing less rarely retrains...

Hair Porosity: How to Test It and Care for Your Type

Hair porosity decides how your hair takes in water and product. This guide explains the three types, a better home test than the float trick, what raises porosity and how to care for low and high p...

Hair Care After Exercise and Sweating: A Practical Guide

Sweat is mostly water and salt, so a warm rinse clears most of it and shampoo is for the oily days. Here is what hair care after exercise and sweating actually needs, plus the drying and tying habi...

Pomade Acne: Why Hair Products Break Out Your Hairline

Pomade acne is the band of small spots that forms along the hairline, temples and upper forehead when styling products migrate onto skin and block pores. This guide covers how to tell it from ordin...

Heat Damage to Hair: How to Spot It and Prevent It

Heat damage is permanent change to the hair fibre from tools running hotter than it can tolerate. Here is how to recognise it, the temperature ceilings that suit your hair type, and why prevention ...