Not sure what your hair needs? Start here. These guides explain the differences between straight, wavy, curly and coily hair, how to identify your natural pattern, and what each texture needs to look and feel its best. Take our Hair Type Quiz to find your match, then explore the guide for your texture.
Washed this morning, flat by lunch? It’s probably not your hair. It’s the routine. You wash it in the morning. It looks great for about an hour. By lunch it’s flat at the roots, a bit oily, maybe a little static-y if the air is dry. You reach for dry shampoo. Then more dry shampoo….
Straight hair gets treated like the easy option. No curls to define, no waves to coax, nothing to figure out. Except that’s not how it plays out. Maybe you know someone whose blowout survives until Thursday while yours has given up by lunch. Or your hair refuses to hold a curl no matter what you…
Go looking for hair advice and you’ll find it’s mostly aimed at two groups: people with straight hair, and people with curls. Wavy hair gets squeezed in the gap. The tips for each side half work on you, and that’s about it. So what is it? Loose S-shaped bends. The hair doesn’t fall flat, but…
Coily hair gets called a dozen different things online. Coiled, kinky, tightly curled, and half the time nobody’s even using these words to mean the same thing. If you’ve ever typed “what does coily hair mean” into Google just trying to get a straight answer, you’re far from the only one. So let’s actually sort…
Curly hair has a mind of its own. Some mornings it falls into these perfect ringlets without you doing a single thing differently. Then the next day, same shampoo, same product, same everything, and somehow it’s a frizzy cloud that barely resembles what you had going the day before. People treat “curly” like it’s one…
Nobody really talks about wavy hair the way they talk about straight or curly. Probably because it never fully commits to being either. Some mornings it does that soft, undone-looking wave and you feel like you’ve finally figured your hair out. Next day, same shower, same products, and it just sits there flat — like…
If your hair has never held a curl in its life, no matter how much mousse or how many hot rollers you throw at it, you’re probably dealing with straight hair. And honestly, it gets an unfair reputation. People assume it’s “low maintenance,” but if you actually live with it, you know the truth: it…