Its been a while. But I’m back and excited about the topic this week.

My cousin came over this past weekend and she’s growing out a short, short cut. She wants to continue to grow it long, but in the process she needed suggestions for maintenance and versatility. We are going to explore a technique that can incorporate both maintenance and versatility and still give you a finish you’ve been waiting for. So, the topic this week… “What can I do with my hair?” Read the full story

I have been hanging on to this little glass bottle of goop for a good two years now. The expiration date has long passed and the tinged color and odd smell are what’s left to show for it. But, it doesn’t matter, I just can’t bring myself to toss it. It is by far my savior when it comes to unexpected blemishes. No matter how great our skin cleansing routine we are all bound to get an unexpected visitors every once in while. Read the full story

I love color! Unfortunately my hair doesn’t. Well technically, I know it used to hate color when I relaxed it, but I haven’t tried color since I’ve become 100% texturized and I’m looking forward to it.

My hair has always been fine. When I was in college my hair stylist suggested color to bulk it up by opening the hair shaft and depositing color. I didn’t quite understand then what he meant, but I went for it. Read the full story

Are you losing your hair and you don’t know why? Take a second and examine the hair that you see in the shower or in the comb/brush. There are generally two types of breakage: from the root and damaged hair. If it is from the root its internal.You can detect this type of breakage by white bulb at the end of the hair shaft. This can be caused by a variety of reasons: stress, change of eating habits, and change of medications including birth control. Read the full story

Have you ever gone into a salon and brought a picture with you? You wanted to look just like Halle Berry or Rhianna? Literally… You thought that with that haircut you would become them. Then you realize that once you have the cut, you look nothing like them. Well, there’s a lesson in all that. It all comes down to face shapes. The dream haircut, must be a haircut that makes your features appear balanced and slimmer.
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I know you saw the BET awards last week…WOW!!!!  It  was both good and bad, especially the hair.
 The BET awards are the place where all the black entertainers and wanna-be black entertainers strut their stuff with fabulous clothes, makeup and hair.  This year we saw a lot of quick hair changes.  Some cute and others all I can say is …WHY?
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Within the last week and especially these last two days I’ve come across a serious issue within the community.  It’s a growing concern.  I want to save all of you weave wearers from the “loss of edges” due to improper care of edges, as well as improper weaves.
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Okay ladies, I know that we’ll go to great lengths to have long lush lashes–but I’ve recently found myself in an eyelash twilight zone, that I am still trying to find my way out of. At the risk of being an annoying starer on the NYC subway, I could not take my eyes off of several woman (all on separate occasions) who oddly all had the exact same eyelashes, tightly curled and perfectly centered. I thought to myself, that it can’t be just an uncanny coincidence that all of these women inherited the same eyelash gene?
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Can we get spring please? I don’t know about you, but I love the sun. For many reasons. I love the energy it gives off…and I love the way it dries my hair. This rain is killing me. Not for the frizz, (I’m blessed to be a hairstylist and I know how to conquer frizz) but because I like my hair better when the heat from the sun naturally dries my hair. But for those of you who have to combat the frizz…. I’m here for you.
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I usually cut my own hair. Well, I have been for the past two years. It’s hard being a hairstylist and letting other people do your hair. We always want it done our way. We envision what we want to see and we know the way that we would achieve the look. This past week, however, I decided that I wanted to be pampered, and I got my hair cut by someone else for a change. I chose a stylist I work with at the Paul Labrecque Salon and Spa in New York City. I have observed her work over the past year and I like it. She has fun with her cuts, so. . . I let her go to work. It took everything in my power to just sit there. It came out a little shorter than I wanted, but I needed it and it is VERY CUTE. Read the full story