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How to Use Hair Rollers: Velcro, Hot, and Foam Rollers
A complete guide for creating professional-style curls at home Hair rollers are one of the easiest styling tools to use if you’re looking for beautiful, voluminous curls but don’t want to fiddle with a curling iron. ...
How to Use Foam Rollers to Curl Your Hair
Get beautiful curls overnight with this heatless method!Hair that’s curly, bouncy, and attention-getting is surprisingly easy to achieve with foam rollers (also known as sponge rollers). Using these spongy cylinders ca...
How to
Reduce Hair Volume
Volume, though desired and coveted by many, can be a big nuisance to others with thick, curly, and frizz-prone hair. Reduce the volume of your hair with the right haircut. Tame your frizz with a moisturizing shampoo and ...
How to Choose a Hair Developer: Volume Strength, Application, & More
Determining what developer strength to use is easy with our simple and comprehensive guidePerfectly lifted, beautiful color is your hair goal, but how do you achieve it? Using a hair developer is critical to achieving yo...
How to
Use Elumen Hair Color
Elumen hair color has the ability to dye your hair vibrant, long-lasting colors without sacrificing its health. If you love experimenting with different hair colors but don't want to damage your hair, Elumen might be a g...
How to Dye Bleached Hair Back to Your Natural Color
Getting that platinum look is a great feeling—but the upkeep of bleached hair (plus the damage it can cause) can be a lot to deal with. If you’re tired of your bleached hair and you want to go back to your natural co...
Explaining the Key Differences between Gingers and Redheads
The major distinctions between these 2 terms for people with red hairHave you ever seen someone with red hair, then wondered how to describe them? There’s the term “ginger,” but there’s also “redhead,” too...
How to
Prevent Hair Color from Bleeding
When you dye your hair multiple colors, you can often encounter problems with the various colors bleeding into each other, or into bleached hair. Any hair dye will inevitably fade, but you can take steps to slow that tha...
11 Easy Ways to Remove Hair Color from Grey Hair
Use simple items like baking soda & dish soap to remove hair dyePermanent hair dye is great when you don’t want your color to fade, but becomes a bit of a pain when you want to get rid of it. The darker the dye is, and...
How to
Keep Outdoor Cushions from Blowing Away
Outdoor cushions make any furniture look a little more put together (and a whole lot comfier). But if you live in a windy area, keeping these cushions in place is probably your top priority. Fortunately, there are DIY me...
How to
Dye Black Hair Red
Looking to dye those dark locks red? We don't blame you! Your natural color is probably gorgeous, but mixing up your hair color can be such a fun way to change your look and have some fun. You've probably heard about how...
What Is the Rarest Hair Color?
Find out how uncommon your luscious locks areYou’ve probably seen some crazy hair colors before, but if you’re wondering which color is the absolute rarest, you’re in the right place. In this article, we’re going...
How to
Open Hair Roots
From stalling growth to causing hair loss, clogged roots can cause real problems for hair. Luckily, there are a lot of simple ways you can open up your roots. Change up your hair care routine with a different shampoo. Tr...
How to
Dye Bleached Hair Brown
Maybe you’ve bleached your hair to dye it a lighter brown, or maybe you’re just feeling done with the bleached look—whatever the reason, you’re ready for a change! Dyeing bleached hair back to brown isn't hard, b...
How to Apply Semi-Permanent Hair Color
A guide to using and caring for semi-permanent dye Semi-permanent hair dyes are a significantly less harsh alternative to traditional dyes that won’t damage your hair. Instead of penetrating the core of the hair, semi-...
How to
Prevent Natural Blonde Hair from Darkening
If you have naturally blonde hair, congratulations--you’re one of the only 2% of the world’s population that does. But blonde hair can also begin to darken over time. If you want to keep your hair blonde as long as p...
How to
Whiten Yellow Hair
Easy, at-home methods to achieve platinum blonde hair Bleaching your own hair is cheap and fun, but it rarely ends up platinum blonde. If you have yellow, orange, or brassy tones after bleaching, cover them up with a ton...
30 Different Blonde Shades: How to Find Your Perfect Match
The ultimate guide to the most popular shades of blondeGoing blonde is always in, but with so many different shades of blonde out there, how do you know which one to pick? We’ve rounded up the trendiest blonde shades a...
How to
Dye Dyed Black Hair Red Without Bleach
If you dyed your hair black and want to go red, you have to remove the color first. This is because dye only adds color; it does not lift color. The easiest way to do this is with bleach, but if you don't want to use tha...
How to
Enhance Your Hair Color Using Tea
While dyeing your hair different colors can be fun, the chemicals in regular hair dye can be very drying and damaging to your hair. Instead, try enhancing the colors in your hair using different kinds of tea. This is a g...
