Published on Sept. 7, 2024, 2:30 a.m.
For millennia, humanity has been locked in an intimate struggle with the filament that grows from our scalps. We have braided i…
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Published on Sept. 7, 2024, 2:30 a.m.
For millennia, humanity has been locked in an intimate struggle with the filament that grows from our scalps. We have braided i…
Published on Jan. 7, 2024, 9:59 a.m.
It began, as many revolutions do, not with a bang, but with a bonnet. In a Parisian salon in 1888, inventor Alexandre Godefoy r…
Published on Feb. 18, 2025, 2:45 p.m.
For millennia, the pursuit of smooth skin has been a constant human endeavor, a narrative told through sharpened obsidian, bron…
Published on March 1, 2025, 10:44 a.m.
We’ve all stood there, in front of the mirror, amidst a tangled web of cords belonging to a hairdryer, a curling iron, and a st…
Published on Feb. 18, 2025, 2:12 p.m.
There are objects we interact with so frequently, so intimately, that they become invisible. The electric shaver is one such de…
Published on Feb. 18, 2025, 1:48 p.m.
Step into the ghost of a mid-20th-century barbershop. Beyond the scent of bay rum and talc, listen closely. You’ll hear the cri…
Published on Feb. 18, 2025, 1:31 p.m.
It begins not with a gleaming new product, but with a story of failure. A user, J.T. Lilleskov, reviewed his BaBylissPRO FX3 sh…
Published on Feb. 9, 2025, 12:04 p.m.
Listen closely in any high-end barbershop. Beneath the conversation and the snip of shears, you’ll hear it: a deep, steady, pow…
Published on Feb. 9, 2025, 11:52 a.m.
There is a universal frustration known to anyone who has ever attempted a home haircut: the tyranny of the cord. It’s a physica…
Published on Dec. 27, 2023, 6:39 p.m.
In the late 19th century, the first device conceived to dry hair resembled a fearsome stationary helmet attached to the exhaust…