Hair Brushes

Difference Between Vent & Paddle Brushes

If you’ve recently gotten a shorter, cropped haircut or had a chemical texture treatment done, your old brush might not mesh with your new style. Working with the right brush for your hair length and texture can make the difference between...

The Top 10 Hair Brushes With Wooden Handles

Your hair helps define who you are. It's featured on your head, and part of the image you create is based on how your hair behaves on any given day. While your haircut is important, the hair brush styling helps make the do work. The brush type...

Techniques for Thermal Hair Brushes

That fresh from the salon blowout can be replicated at home with the help of a few choice styling tools. A thermal hair brush and a blow dryer can leave your hair sleek, smooth and full of brilliant shine. With the help of the right techniques,...

The Best Brushes for Coiled Hair

Coiled hair springs, bounces -- and needs a pretty special brush to handle all that magnificence. The best brushes for your natural hair let you maintain the shape and style you want while keeping your coils healthy and free from breakage or...

Why Are Boars Bristles Good in Hair Brushes?

The hairbrush you choose will make or break your efforts to pamper your mane, and boar bristles are the best choice. Yes, they’re pricey, but they are good hairbrushes for a lot of different reasons.

Hot Air Curling Brushes for Hair

Give your arm a break from blow drying your tresses and use a hot air curling brush instead. From a quick style refresher to adding body and bend to your style, this easy-to-use styling tool takes little practice or patience to master. Restyle as...

How to Clean Long Hair Out of a Brush

Long locks rock. They're luscious, versatile and when styled just right, they make you feel all woman. But when you look at the hairbrush you use day in and day out, the word that comes to mind may be "feral" rather than...

How Does Iron Affect the Hair?

If you brush your hair and it seems like more strands stay on the brush than on your head, you should rightfully be concerned. Most people normally lose 50 to 100 strands per day, but if you are losing more and your once luxurious head of hair...

What Type of Hair Brush Should I Use for Long, Straight & Fine Hair?

Your long locks may feel like a burden at times, but they more than make up for it with their silky straight texture. Of course, if you’re battling tangles, your tresses may not feel glamorous at all. Unfortunately, fine hair is especially...

How to Round Brush Hair

To add curl and volume to their marvelous manes, many gals choose the round brush to work its magic. In conjunction with a blow-dryer, a round brush can add oomph, sexiness and style to lackluster locks. Round brushes are easy-to-use and even the...

How to Brush Your Hair to Stimulate the Scalp

Some people believe that stimulating your scalp by brushing your hair helps promote hair growth. The jury's still out on whether that's true, but brushing your hair the right way certainly can't hurt. Choose the right brush and make sure you comb...

How to Wash a Hair Brush

Girl, you don't want to be caught pulling a ratty-looking hair brush, full of gnarled, old hair out of your drawer or purse. How embarrassing! Over time, a host of other undesirable things collect on a hairbrush, too -- like oil, hairspray residue...

How to Get Hair Out of a Brush

The fashionista's hairbrush -- oh-so-important and often in use! When you use your hairbrush daily, and when you put assorted products for shine and control in your hair, crud and oils will accumulate in your brush. If you use a dirty hairbrush on...

How to Dissolve Hair From a Hair Brush at Home

If you pick up your hair brush in the morning and wonder when you decided to start wearing a wig (because only a wig could have that much hair attached, right?), it's time for a good cleaning. Brushes collect all of the dead hair, dust, oil and...

How to Get Static Out of a Hair Brush

Brushing your hair shouldn't end up with it coming alive and standing straight on end. If your hair is full of static, especially after you brush it, your hairbrush may be making it worse. Tame your tresses and get rid of static by neutralizing it...

Is Brushing Your Hair Good for Hair Care?

Marsha Brady may have popularized the tradition of 100 hundred brushstrokes before bedtime, but women were tugging, pulling and smoothing out their hair through bristles for hundreds of years before the Bradys became a bunch. A hairbrush seems...

Why Does My Hair Stretch When Wet?

Wet hair does a lot of things. It curls up, soaks in and weighs down, but it also stretches out. If you've ever struggled to pull a hair brush through a tangled knot in your wet hair, you've probably noticed that your wet strands are much more...

How to Brush Your Hair Properly

As a smart, competent woman, you probably think you have a handle on brushing your hair. But many women are surprised to learn that there is a wrong way to brush. Breakage and split ends are great hair's mortal enemies, yet you can cause both...

How to Sterilize Hair Brushes

Hairbrushes are one of the most commonly used tools in any beauty babe's toolkit. You might use a hairbrush every day to keep your strands smooth and tangle-free, but do you ever think about cleaning it? Think of all the stuff you put in your hair...

How to Clean a Nylon Hair Brush

Nylon or not, all hairbrushes need to be freed from all that weighs them down. Over time -- and not that much time, either -- hairbrushes gather loose hair, oil buildup and residue from hairstyling products. This nasty stuff is then transferred...