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How to Protect Your Hair from Sun Damage: Dr. Joe Explains What UV Rays Really Do to Your Hair

How to Protect Your Hair from Sun Damage: Dr. Joe Explains What UV Rays Really Do to Your Hair

You wouldn’t spend time in the sun without protecting your skin—but what about your hair? UV rays don't just fade your hair color. Over time, they...

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What Causes Split Ends (and Can You Actually Repair Them?)

What Causes Split Ends (and Can You Actually Repair Them?)

Struggling with hair breakage, frayed ends, or split ends that keep coming back no matter what you do? You’re not alone. If you’re wondering what c...

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Why Are the Ends of My Hair So Dry? (And How to Fix and Prevent the Look of Ragged Split Ends)

Why Are the Ends of My Hair So Dry? (And How to Fix and Prevent the Look of Ragged Split Ends)

Your roots feel soft. Your mids are manageable. But your ends? Rough. Brittle. Frayed. If you constantly feel like the bottom few inches of your ha...

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How to Moisturize Hair: Expert Tips for Hydrated, Healthy Strands

How to Moisturize Hair: Expert Tips for Hydrated, Healthy Strands

This guide will focus on how to moisturize hair effectively: first ensuring proper hydration and internal moisturization, then locking it all in wi...

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How to Strengthen Hair: Tips, Remedies & Expert Advice

How to Strengthen Hair: Tips, Remedies & Expert Advice

Maybe your hair feels rough, breaks easily when you brush it, or never seems to grow past your shoulders. The truth is, strong, healthy-looking hai...

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Why Does My Hair Tangle So Easily? Expert Solutions for Smooth, Knot-Free Strands

Why Does My Hair Tangle So Easily? Expert Solutions for Smooth, Knot-Free Strands

🪮 Jump to your hair type: Fine, thin hair Curly + coily hair Damaged or dry hair Long hair Thick or dense hair How to get tangles out of hair S...

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Hair Breakage 101: What Causes It & How to Stop It

Hair Breakage 101: What Causes It & How to Stop It

At Color Wow, we’re obsessed with solving hair problems—and hair breakage is a big one. Nothing is more frustrating than seeing short, snapped-off ...

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How to Make Hair Less Puffy or Poofy: The Cure for Fluff and Frizz

How to Make Hair Less Puffy or Poofy: The Cure for Fluff and Frizz

Struggling with hair that turns puffy, frizzy, and unmanageable the second you step outside—or worse, when you brush it or blow-dry it? You’re not ...

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Behind the Science of Color Wow Dreaming

Behind the Science of Color Wow Dreaming: Our New Advanced Hair Repair + Resurfacing Treatment

If your worst nightmare is dry, damaged “cotton candy” hair that puffs and frizzes at the mere hint of humidity... it’s time to start Dreaming. Fr...

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Is Blow Drying Bad for Your Hair? Here’s the Real Truth

Is Blow Drying Bad for Your Hair? Here’s the Real Truth

We’ve all heard the warnings: blow drying your hair can cause damage, weaken strands, and leave your hair frizzy, fried, or worse. But is it reall...

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Damaged Hair 101: Our Top Tips for Identifying and Treating Damaged Strands

Damaged Hair 101: Our Top Tips for Identifying and Treating Damaged Strands

We’ve all been there - running our fingers through our hair and suddenly realizing something feels a bit… off. Maybe it’s lost that soft, silky tex...

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Reviving Your Curls: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Fix Damaged Curly Hair

Reviving Your Curls: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Fix Damaged Curly Hair

If your curlies aren’t curling like their usual best selves, chances are you’re dealing with damaged curls. Unfortunately, due to the natural dryne...

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money mist: behind the scenes, behind the science

Money Mist: Behind the Scenes, Behind the Science

Achieving luxe, glossy, healthy, “expensive looking” hair might seem like an impossible dream. What with hair color chemicals, hot tools, UV rays ...

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OH SNAP! 5 TIPS TO STOP BREAKAGE

OH SNAP! 5 TIPS TO STOP BREAKAGE

Hot weather, UV rays, salty seas and chlorinated pool water gang up to suck the moisture out of your hair. And moisture is critical when it ...

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How to Protect Hair from Heat Damage (Without Giving Up Your Hot Tools!)

How to Protect Hair from Heat Damage (Without Giving Up Your Hot Tools!)

In a committed relationship with your hot tools? We get it. From wavers to straighteners to self-spinning curlers, it would take an iron will ...

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THREE WAYS HAIR COLOR WRECKS YOUR TEXTURE....AND WHY A COCKTAIL MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER

THREE WAYS HAIR COLOR WRECKS YOUR TEXTURE....AND WHY A COCKTAIL MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER

When you get your hair colored, here’s what happens: Powerful chemicals (ammonia, peroxide) are used to raise your hair’s outer layer (the cuticl...

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BLONDE HAIR BREAKAGE: TIPS FOR MAINTAINING YOUR COLOR FROM CHRIS APPLETON

BLONDE HAIR BREAKAGE: TIPS FOR MAINTAINING YOUR COLOR FROM CHRIS APPLETON

Is blonde hair definitely more fun? Most of you blondes will say YAASSSS. And if you’re NOT blonde, you’ve probably wondered what life would be l...

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THE SKINNY ON FINE, LIMP, COLOR-TREATED HAIR

THE SKINNY ON FINE, LIMP, COLOR-TREATED HAIR

IS YOUR HAIR LOSING WEIGHT – IN A BAD WAY?Chemicals in hair color could be the catalysts behind your wimpy, withering strands. Nicola Clarke (C...

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