133 guides
Women's Haircuts · 16 min
How long growing out grey really takes, what the demarcation line looks like at 3, 6 and 12 months, and whether to blend it, chop it or ride it out. With real costs and ten honest examples.
Women's Haircuts · 17 min
Bubble braids contain no braiding at all. They are one ponytail, an elastic every few inches, and one pull technique that decides whether they look full or flat. Here is the six step method, ten variations from two bubbles to ten, what to do when your hair is short, and the mistakes that collapse the style by lunchtime.
Men's Haircuts · 19 min
Twelve curly cuts for men sorted by curl type and length, plus the one instruction that decides whether yours works: cut it dry. Includes exactly what to say in the chair.
Women's Haircuts · 16 min
Peekaboo hair hides a vivid panel under your natural top layer. The shade is the easy part. Where the parting sits is what decides whether it reads as a secret or as a dye job that went wrong.
Trends and Celebrity · 17 min
Calico hair is three tones, not two, and the ginger is the one people leave out. The 60 / 25 / 15 split that makes it read as color instead of a striped wig, ten placements from hidden to all over, what it does on your base color, and how to see it on your own face before you book three hours in a chair.
Men's Haircuts · 18 min
Medium length for men means three to six inches on top. But the length is not what decides whether the haircut works: the sides are. Here is the ratio that separates a medium cut from a triangle, ten cuts worth asking for, which one your hair type will actually hold, and the sentence to say in the chair.
Women's Haircuts · 17 min
4c hair shrinks to roughly a quarter of its real length, and almost every styling decision follows from that one fact. What holds at your stretched length, a moisture routine that survives a work week, where people quietly lose length, and ten ways 4c is actually worn.
Women's Haircuts · 16 min
Knotless braids start with your own hair instead of a knot, which is why they do not give you the day-one headache. Here is what the four sizes cost you in chair time and money, how long they really last, the four things that go wrong in the chair, and ten ways to wear one set.
Women's Haircuts · 18 min
Long hair is not a hairstyle, it is a length. Eight cuts photographed at the same length, a table that matches your hair type to one of them, the exact sentence to say in the chair, and the three mistakes that cost you inches you will not get back for a year.