Working With Hair That Is Between Textures Hair is resilient, especially hair that is transitioning. Here at Main Character Hair, we have come to understand several things about transitioning hair. One of the most important is that, regardless of the challenges that may appear when hair is moving from one texture to another, there is…
Three years ago, when we first began developing our silk press system, we entered a season where the dream of a press with true fluidity seemed almost out of reach. Our goal was simple but delicate: to guide kinkier hair bonds to lay in the direction we desired without sacrificing their natural vitality. Every texture…
There is a generation that truly enjoys their silk press candy curls.Here at Main Character Hair, the versatility of each stylist allows us to meet that desire with care. For some clients, a soft wisp of curl will not do. They prefer abundance. On this day we marveled at the many curls we were able…
Here at Main Character Hair, we enjoy a vintage set, and on this day it materialized just the way we intended it to. S — Setting Where the service took place. The room, the light, the time of day, the pace of the environment. Setting grounds the record in real life. Miami Gardens, Florida —…
Personally, blow-drying my hair was never a strong suit of mine. I prefer air drying or sitting under the hooded dryer whenever possible. But every so often I have to blow-dry a family member’s hair for the sake of time. This is something we also discuss inside Refined Haircare 101 when speaking about controlled drying…
Sweatshirt ✔Headphones ✔House keys ✔Sweatband / hair hook for my silk press ❌ That is where I dropped the ball today. It has been a marvelous day in so many eternal ways. A twinkle-of-an-eye kind of day. The kind that plants your feet in solidity. To seal such quiet celebration, I decided to take an…
Where have you been all my wash days? That was my final exclamation when I looked at the end result of what my new, handy-dandy hair companion had done. And because I could tell we would be together for a while, I immediately knew I would need to adjust my heavy hand. It was my…
The latter part of my teenage years was especially formative in my relationship with hair. Between the ages of seventeen and nineteen, I began working small jobs and, for the first time, could afford to splurge on professional hairstyles. I had reached my dream. I wanted to look as though I lived inside a music…
Undivided Undivided attention at that. The elder anything becomes, the more we know it must be tended. Like a garden during pruning season, trims are necessary for our crowns.But in between trims, we must care for our ends. They have been with us the longest.They deserve to be treated as such. The Eldest Part of…
In Service Here at Main Character Hair, if we know nothing else, we know this: Hair will always find what it is looking for—one way or another. One of the things we share consistently within Refined Haircare is simple: Condition.Condition yours.Condition theirs. One of the definitions of the word condition that we return to often…