What are the Benefits of the Brazilian Blowout?

Brazilian Blowout hair smoothing treatment reduces frizz, adds shine, tames curls, making hair more manageable, reducing styling time and easier to style. The semi-permanent keratin smoothing treatment coats hair with ingredients that help repair and protect your hair making it stronger and healthier over time. The treatment lasts months and can be customized to meet your specific hair needs.

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8 Essentials to Understand About Hair Coloring

Show your colorist images from magazines, websites or social media, such as Instagram and Pinterest with looks you love. This will help your colorist know exactly how to achieve your desired look.

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What Is a Brazilian Blowout & Keratin Treatment? How Long Does It Last?

Brazilian Blowout and keratin treatments are in-salon, semi-permanent hair smoothing treatments that smooth frizz by softening the hair texture making it more manageable, easy to style and boosts shine. They are safe for all hair types and can be performed on color-treated hair. The treatment, which lasts up to four months is not a straightening treatment, but may have a straightening effect on loose wave and curl textures.

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Ouidad vs. DevaCurl: Which Curly Haircut Is Right For You

There are many different methods and techniques on how to best cut, care and style curly hair. Curly hair experts emphasize that cutting curly hair when it’s dry and in its natural state is the best method, whereas other curly hair experts state that cutting curly hair when it’s wet is the ideal method. Some say shampoos with sulfates are beneficial and others say never to use them.  These opposing views are endless from every topic related to how to bring out the best in curly locks and often lead to much confusion. Rest assured, we will cut through the various philosophies, so you have a better understanding as we break through the noise.

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Haircuts to Avoid

Haircuts can walk a fine line from fashionable to frumpy. They can dramatically improve your appearance and confidence, yet a bad one or a style that doesn't fit your face and hair can throw you off track.

Finding the right stylist makes a huge difference, but it also helps to pick a good haircut. Part of the process is staying away from the haircuts that simply aren’t flattering. Let's take a look at some haircuts that don’t seem to work for anyone, meaning that they most likely won't work for you.

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About Hair

People believe plenty of myths about hair. So what’s the truth? Let’s talk about all aspects of hair, from washing to graying and balding.

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What You Need to Know About "Color Smudging" Your Hair

If you haven’t yet, you need to try the coloring sensation of smudging, which started on the West Coast and has now spread everywhere else. What exactly is color smudging and how is it different from other types of coloring? Let’s talk about what you need to know.

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How Heat and Elements Affect Your Hair Color

Just as warm weather has an effect on our moods, eating patterns, as well as our activities, temperature can also affect the results of how our hair color processes. The temperature of our bodies, particularly our heads can play a determining role as to how well our hair color takes. Ever wonder why previous color sessions may have had better results than others and your stylist swears they didn’t do anything to change your hair color formula? Below we’ll discuss how much our hair is affected by external factors and solutions to attain the best results.

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6 Tips to Care for Hair Extensions

The investment of quality hair extensions has big pay offs and can be life changing.  Seamlessly blended hair extensions that look real and have movement, propel your self confidence, make your hair the envy of others and turn heads.  Almost all the beautiful hair you see in fashion magazines and celebrities is attributed to at least some degree of assistance from hair extensions.  As transformational as they are, there are 6 tips that are recommended in order to best maintain them.

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Enhance Your Beauty With Highlights

Highlights have the potential to work wonders to enhance your look. From youthful, summery and sun-kissed to bold and dramatic, highlights are amazing because they have the ability to enhance not just your hair, but also the appearance of your face and overall look. Whether you’re getting them for the first time or get them often, here’s what you need to know about getting the most out of highlights.

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