Color · 9 min
What a color correction actually involves
Why the photograph on your phone might be three appointments rather than one. What lightener is really doing to the pigment underneath, why the first session sometimes ends somewhere orange entirely on purpose, and how the price is built. Also the uncomfortable half: the conditions under which we say no, and what we suggest instead.
For anyone carrying box dye, a correction done elsewhere, or a color they've spent a year growing out and hating.
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Color · 7 min
How to grow out highlights without hating the middle
Months four through nine are where almost everybody gives up and books foils again. A root shadow, a well-placed gloss and a cut that finishes above the demarcation line will carry you through them without losing the length. What each of the three costs, roughly when to do it, and the one month where doing nothing is the right call.
For anyone with a hard line who wants their natural color back and doesn't want to sacrifice eighteen months of growth to get it.
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Extensions · 8 min
Making a set of extensions last a year
The gap between hair that's finished at four months and hair still going strong at twelve is almost entirely what happens between appointments. Washing, drying, brushing, sleeping, heat, which products quietly destroy a weft, and why the move-up at eight weeks isn't a suggestion. Written with Alyssa, who installs them.
For anyone wearing hand-tied wefts, or considering them and wanting to know honestly what they're signing up for.
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