How to Clarify Your Curly or Straight Gray Hair: The Ultimate Guide!
Many people have never even heard of clarifying their hair. So let’s clarify a few things about why and how to clarify your curly or straight gray hair. Included in this guide are what it means to clarify, reasons to clarify, how often, hair hacks and product...
How to Deep Condition Your Curly or Straight Gray Hair: The Ultimate Guide!
A crucial and often overlooked step in the foundation of healthy shiny hair is deep conditioning. Knowing why and how to deep condition your curly or straight gray hair can alleviate frustration with styling, tangles, frizz, and shine. In this ultimate guide, you’ll...
The Ultimate Guide to pH Balance for Hair and Why it Matters
There are affiliate links* in this post. Read my Terms and Conditions Page to learn more. What is the ideal pH of Hair? Normal, undyed, undamaged hair has a pH of 4.5 to 5.5. What is pH? pH stands for “power of hydrogen” it is a scale used in chemistry to denote the...
Why You Might Reconsider Using Coconut Oil On Your Hair
To Coconut Oil or Not to Coconut Oil that is the Question. Don’t panic, this is not about hating on our beloved coconut oil. Nevertheless, I feel it is my duty to let the silver hair community know why you might want to reconsider the use of coconut oil on your hair...
Unicorn Cut: My at Home Long Curly Hair Cut
Many of you have asked me how I cut my hair at home. This video is my method, starting with a Unicorn Cut and then evening out simple medium length layers on my long naturally curly hair. This is my first YouTube video, I hope you find it helpful. There are affiliate...
How to Avoid the “Ugly Phase” of Transitioning to Gray Hair
Lately, I have been thinking about how we put our thoughts out there into the world. With social media, it is as easy as hitting ‘enter’ to say whatever we want to whomever we want, and sometimes it goes way beyond our intended audience. I am part of several silver...
Should You Ditch the Dye Because of Cancer Risk?
Recently an article went blazing across the internet from Fast Company with a catchy clickbait heading “A harrowing study of 46,000 women shows hair dyes are heavily associated with cancer”, nothing will scare the dye right off your head faster than that. Trouble is...
The Ultimate Guide to Hair Porosity: Does it really matter?
What is Hair Porosity? Simply put Hair Porosity is the ability for a hair strand to absorb and retain moisture. It is determined by how open or closed the hair cuticle is. Or at least if you do a quick internet search on hair porosity that is what you will find....
In Search of The Curly Silver Holy Grail
In this post I will be doing my first Curly Girl Reviews of brands like Innersense, Curly World, Bounce Curl, and several more. If you have been "curlious" about these product lines but haven't tried them yet, maybe you will find some inspiration in this post about my...
How to Reply to Gray Hair Insults: My Top 12 Comebacks
When I first began the journey of going gray, of ditching the dye and embracing whatever my natural color was, two things I never imagined happened: finding a fabulous support group to help me through this journey, and a reason I would need them…the horrible...
QuickSilver Hair and Scalp Detox: Harry’s Experiment on His Red Hair & Dry Scalp
My husband, Harry, took over on this post. He tried a QuickSilver Hair and Scalp Detox Mask, and he wanted to share a male perspective on the process of being QuickSilvered. A couple of things you may not know about the mask before we get started:Men can use it.It can...
Curly Girl Method Shortcuts for the Busy Curly Girl
Are you CURLIOUS? Do you have curls and you are embracing them along with your silver hair? The Curly Girl Method is one of the best ways to achieve your finest curls. However, it can be challenging, overwhelming, and confusing. Simply put…I don’t follow all the hard...
A Gray Hair Blog, written by Joli Campbell, and occasionally some guest gray hair bloggers. Find information and products for your transition to gray hair, photos, videos, tutorials, and more. Gray hair natural hair care, everything you need to know about hair care, support groups, purple shampoo, clarifying products, yellowing, and silver curly girl information.