by Bettina | Oct 1, 2026 | Hair care
I happily switch my skincare the moment the air turns crisp — heavier moisturiser, richer everything — but for years it never occurred to me to do the same for my hair. Then one October I couldn’t work out why my hair was simultaneously full of...
by Bettina | Sep 15, 2026 | Hair care
I’ve had exactly one truly great haircut in my life where I walked out looking like the photo in my head, and it happened because I finally learned to speak my stylist’s language instead of just showing a blurry screenshot and hoping. Every autumn I get...
by Bettina | Aug 22, 2026 | Hair care
I used to be the person with the ten-step hair routine and the drawer full of hot tools, and I was perpetually running late because of it. The thing that finally changed my mornings wasn’t a new gadget — it was realising that the women whose hair always...
by Bettina | Aug 16, 2026 | Hair care
I have wavy, slightly porous hair, which means for most of my twenties a humid day and I were not friends. I’d flat-iron it sleek, step outside, and within about ninety seconds I’d have a soft frizzy halo and a sinking feeling. What finally changed things...
by Bettina | Aug 8, 2026 | Hair care
Every July I quietly retire my flat iron. Somewhere around the first proper heatwave I realised I was standing in a sweltering bathroom adding more heat to my morning, only for the humidity to undo the whole blowout the second I stepped outside. So I built myself a...
by Bettina | Aug 4, 2026 | Hair care
Every September I have the same reckoning with my hairbrush. The tan is fading, the pool bag is finally put away, and my hair is sitting there pale, crunchy, and snapping at the ends like it’s holding a grudge about the whole summer. The first year it happened I...
