Curly Girl Method Basics

Curly hair is almost always hard to control and take care of which is why most people with curly or wavy hair are constantly looking for new tips and solutions. It’s also why Lorraine Massey and Michele Bender wrote and published the Curly Girl: The Handbook – a unique and quick read that we’d definitely recommend. Instead of just doing a book review, however, we thought we’d offer you our Curly Girl method steps and basics that you can use to get your curly hair under control. In this guide, we’ll go over the curly girl method ingredients and basics,…

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Does Blow Drying Hair Kill Lice?

There are many different ways to deal with hair lice, some convenient, others – not so much. While that makes lice an easy problem to deal with they still need to be dealt with as quickly as possible before they become more difficult to manage. This means that often it’s smarter to reach for a convenient solution you may already have at your disposal rather than wasting time looking for more convoluted options. For example, does blow drying hair kill lice? The quick answer here is – yes, it can. Can blow drying hair kill lice faster and more effectively…

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Is It Possible to Lighten Hair With Developer Alone?

What does hair developer do by itself? If you’ve scrolled through our site before or you simply know a thing or two about hair dyes and hair bleach, you’re most probably aware of the role hair developers play – they are what opens the hair cuticles so that the bleach or hair dye can have a stronger effect. What if you use a hair developer alone, however? Can it lighten your hair to a noticeable degree by itself or is it going to be more or less pointless? Will developer lighten hair without bleach? So, can 20 volume developer lighten…

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What Is Hair Developer?

We’ve talked about hair color dyes more than once and we’ve often touched on hair developer and how it’s a part of certain color dyes. It is worth exploring what is hair developer, however, what does hair developer do, and how it should be used. When most people hear about hair color developer they think of it as a way to cover grey hair, but it’s more than that. What is hair color developer? Hair color developers are products that enable hair color dyes to penetrate the cuticle of the hair, prolonging the coloring effect of the dye. They are…

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What Is Pomade and How to Use It?

Pomade may sound like a tropical fruit but it’s actually a hair styling product. If you’re curious about how to apply pomade, how much pomade to use, and other such questions, we’ll try to quickly answer everything in this article. What is pomade? Pomade is a general term for a wide range of hairstyling products and isn’t too specific. It comes from French where pommade means “an ointment”, which itself comes from the Latin pomum which is “fruit or apple”. So pomade is simply “a hair ointment”. Pomade products can be waxy, water-based, or greasy. Traditionally, most pomade products were…

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