My early childhood was filled with barrettes and rainbow-colored bobos, for any and every occasion. My mother would style my hair and my sister’s—routinely refreshing our giant puffs or adding ...

Coily hair textures are best suited to sculptural, shapely bobs. “Side parts can really help to allow textured hair to be stretched out into a shape which feels more bob-like,” Tom says, while ...

Hair is one of the defining accessories. With ‘hair theory’ – how hairstyle can change the entire feel and personality, like wow ‘I look like a different person’ – being a dealbreaker ...

One happy buyer noted: “This stuff worked magically on me!! It fixed my hair in about 4 washes (I have 4c hair and is normally in protective styles, so this was over a 24 week period).

We discuss getting charged more for having coarse textures, how every stylist should know how to do 4C hair, and more.

Type 4 hair = coily hair Each category also has three a, b, and c subcategories (for example: 3a, 3b, 3c, or 4a, 4b, 4c) that break down each hair type even further.