Clarissa Madelaine Hair

🚨 If your choppy layers look choppy when your hair is straight, they ain't cut right.

The "choppy layers" you know and love aren’t created by cutting choppy—they’re created by styling blended layers to look that way.

Why does this matter? Versatility. I want my clients to be able to wear their hair straight, wavy, curly, or whatever, without their haircut limiting their styling options.

That's also why I blend my layers without thinning shears, razors, or texturizing.

Example? This gorgeous girl! Her layers look bold and super noticeable when we style them, but if she wears her hair naturally straight, they're perfectly seamless. That's the ✨️magic✨️ of a well-blended haircut.

The goal is versatility, not a haircut that only looks good one way.

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If you always cut your hair above your terminal length, you never get to see its natural edges.

But if you ever decide to grow your hair as long as you literally can, you’ll eventually see and experience the natural perimeter of your hair.

And if you want to preserve as much of it as possible, you’ll need to cut it in a shape that works with that natural perimeter. 👌

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"iT sTiLL LoOkS bAd tHoUgh."
"ShE nEedS A fEw MOrE inChEs CUT."

Do you hear yourselves?

It's no one's place to say things like this.

We can't control our thoughts, and judging people is a natural part of the way our brains work. But to make the choice to not keep it to yourself and actually say it to someone... says a lot.

It says that you're superficial from thinking that how someone's hair looks to you is more important than the comfort it brings to them.
It says that you think your opinion of someone else's body is more valid than their own.
And worst of all, when you cross the line into saying what someone "should" do with their appearance, it demonstrates a shameless disrespect for bodily autonomy.

Generic flakes—what most people have—is just shedding skin, like what the rest of your body does, and the flakes are tiny.

Dandruff is a fungus overgrowth that typically looks like chunky flakes with a yellowish hue.

The distinction between the two is important because treatment for each is different since they have different causes.

Every client of mine who once thought they had dandruff actually just had generic flakes, from their scalp being too dry or not washed enough.

Just like if you wash your face and don't moisturize, if you shampoo your scalp but don't condition it, it can get flaky. Conditioner is so vital for maintaining healthy hair and scalp, but people sometimes say it's bad because they actually aren't rinsing it off properly. (So when you condition your scalp, rub and scrub while you rinse because you need that mechanical motion to get it off.)

For people who have a particularly dry scalp where just conditioner isn't enough, there's scalp conditioners that help. I'd recommend the Paul Mitchell tea tree hair and scalp treatment, not sponsored.

Flakes can also be managed by washing your hair every 3ish days (not too frequent or infrequent). Your scalp, like all of your skin, is constantly shedding. But on your head the shedding has no where to go—trapped by hair and oils—and builds up, until eventually you notice it as flakes. I personally have this problem. To manage this, you simply need to wash your hair, but be sure to scrub really well. I like to pre-scrub my scalp before my hands or hair are even wet by scrubbing it like I'm shampooing (like in the video). Everything being dry helps to loosen it better than when it's wet and sticking, so then when I shower it it comes off easily.

There's absolutely NO NEED to buy products labeled specifically for dandruff. That's literally just consumerism preying on you and the general fear and misunderstanding around this topic. As explained, flakes can be managed for FREE!

But if you actually have a fungus overgrowth then you need to see a doctor, over the counter products won't help.

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Actually there's still one more way split ends can majorly interfere with your length goals:

When your hairdresser uses them to pressure you into a chop.

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