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The Best Shampoos With Low Alkaline

If you're the frustrated owner of hair that's dry, damaged from a few too many chemicals and rendezvous with the flatiron or wild with unruly frizz, a high-quality, low-alkaline shampoo is a must have in your bathroom. Your hair goes from being...

Getting Rid of Redness & Flakes Around the Nose

Redness around your nose is a look-killer. It doesn’t matter that your eyelashes are perfectly curled or you finally mastered your lip liner or cat’s eye liner. No one notices all that when your nose is lit up like Rudolph on Christmas...

The Best Shampoos & Conditioners for Buildup & Itchy Scalp

Having buildup in your hair that may cause an itchy scalp is not fabulous. There are ways to clear up all of that buildup and relieve an itchy scalp. Using the right shampoos and conditioners will help alleviate the icky buildup and pesky itch.

How to Protect Long Hair When Wearing a Motorcycle Helmet

Taking off a motorcycle helmet and whipping your long luscious locks in slow-motion looks great on the big screen, but most babes who were born to run don't have access to Hollywood hair, makeup and lighting. Fortunately, real-world long tresses...

Waterproof Hair Relaxer

It's likely no surprise to you that even gals with relaxed hair like to go for a swim. However, relaxer doesn't mesh too well with moisture. Gals often end up with a head full of undefined, downright messy curls when their strands get wet. Because...

How to Use Liquid Lecithin in Conditioner

You might want to build a little shrine to the humble soybean if you're an all-natural girl. The little brown dudes wind up in food, candles, printing inks, animal feed and even biofuels. You, of course, want to dump them on your head in the form...

The Best Oil for Pressing Black Hair

Many African-American women will try anything to straighten their hair. They try pressing combs and oil, flat irons, blow-outs and chemical relaxers, and each one causes more damage than the next. Nobody wants heat damaged hair, but if you press...

How to Wear a Headscarf With Curlers

A set of curlers is a wonderful hairstyling tool to keep in your beauty arsenal. When you have time on your hands, you can use curlers to add volume or curls to your hair without the need to resort to styling products that get hot. If you set your...

How to Clean Ears With Dry Flaked Skin

If you have dry, flaking skin on your ears, you’re probably adopting some new inventive hairstyles to keep your ears out of sight. Before you invest in extensions, start treating the root of your problem and find out why your ears are dry,...

Recipe for Natural Hair Neutralizer

Balance is good, especially when it comes to your hair. In fact, a healthy pH balance is what gives hair that silky, touch-me look that turns heads. A natural way to keep your hair’s pH in check is to apply a neutralizer once or twice a...

What Is a Curling Balm?

If you've been blessed with a head full of curly or wavy hair, you know that some days you feel more like you've been cursed. Sometimes your natural body needs a little boost in the bounce and definition departments. If your curls are falling just...

Uses for White Camellia Nut Oil

Oils, oils, everywhere ... with so much hype surrounding natural oils and their benefits, what's a girl to believe? The trend is a solution to a big problem: Many cosmetics contain controversial chemicals such as propylene glycol, petroleum and...

Oatmeal Scalp Exfoliation for Dry, Itchy Scalps

A dry, itchy scalp isn't just uncomfortable -- it's embarrassing. Commercial dandruff shampoos can work, but they often leave a telltale scent behind. If you're looking for something more natural for your dry, itchy scalp, consider using oatmeal...

How to Untangle Hair Out of a Curling Iron

Whether your curling iron is too hot for your hair type or your technique just needs some work, you could find yourself in the sticky situation of having your hair tangled in a curling iron. If you don't act quickly and carefully, you could do...

The Best-Selling Sprays or Mousse

The right hairspray or mousse can be the difference between having flat, limp hair and tresses that ooze volume. The best-selling sprays and mousse will give you just that and sometimes a little extra. From high-end to drugstore finds and even...

The Difference Between Frizzy and Static Hair

While many people use the terms frizz and static interchangeably when talking about difficult-to-manage hair, they are distinct. For women with wavy, curly or tightly curly hair, managing frizz can be a year-round proposition, with overtime duty...

How to Use Reconstructive Conditioner Before You Color Hair

Imagine applying nail polish to a fingernail that’s full of ridges and bumps. If you have dry, damaged hair, that’s exactly what you’re doing when you dye it without conditioning first. A reconstructive conditioner comes in...

Where on the Head Do You Start to Smooth Chemical Relaxers?

Style-conscious curly girls know that chemical treatments, like relaxers, are best performed by trusted salon professionals. Unfortunately, sometimes your stylist is unavailable or you simply can't manage to get to the salon. At-home relaxer perm...

The Best Shampoo & Conditioner for Frizzy, Fine Hair With Breakage

As if having fine hair isn't hard enough to deal with, yours is frizzy as well. Before you resign yourself to a life of ponytails, look for a shampoo-and-conditioner duo that can help combat both of your hair issues. Fine hair also has a tendency...

How to Turn Frizzy Hair into Wavy Curls Without Products

Beachy, loose waves are always hot, but paying a fortune for products is never cool. The tighter your natural curls, the harder it can be to tame your tresses and the more tempting it is to splurge on the latest in budget-busting smoothing serums....