November 23, 2022

The Ultimate Hair Care Gift Guide for the Holidays

Just like that, the holiday season is just around the corner! Rather than waiting until the last second to plan the perfect gift for each special person in your life, why not stay ahead of the game and start your planning today? If you happen to be shopping for someone...

October 31, 2022

How to Protect Your Hair this Winter

Much is made of how the colder winter weather impacts your skincare routine, but what impact does this cold weather have on your hair? Just as the dramatic shift in temperature and drop in humidity can cause the skin to dry out and lose moisture, so too does the same...

October 26, 2022

5 Halloween Hairstyles for Your Best Costume Yet!

The spookiest time of the year is almost upon us, and most of us have already planned out our costumes to the very last detail. However, if you are in a rush for some last-minute costume advice, you’re in luck! Like any look, your hairstyle can make or break your...

October 03, 2022

How to Build (or Rebuild) Your Hair Care Routine

While there are countless factors that go into creating beautiful hair, by far the most important of those factors is the hair care routine. Sure, you can spend loads of money on amazing hair care products and styling tools, but a proper hair care routine is of the utmost importance...

October 03, 2022

5 Hair Care Products for Allergic Hair Enthusiasts

One of the least-discussed topics in the hair care world is of common allergens and their inclusion in many popular hair care products. Preservatives such as imidazolidinyl urea, diazolidinyl urea, and quaternium 15 can release formaldehyde and prove to be quite potent allergens to those with skin sensitivities. Additionally, fragrances...

September 23, 2022

The Best Oils for Low-Porosity Hair

Hair porosity is one of the most important factors when it comes to how a hair behaves and functions. How porous your hair is can influence everything from how easily the hair can be styled to how much moisture and hydration the hair strand can retain. And yet, hair porosity...

September 07, 2022

5 Bold Hairstyles for Your Fall Hair Makeover

With each changing season comes a new time to freshen up your look and show off a fun, new side of yourself. One of the most striking ways to do this is by changing up your hairstyle! With the weather getting cooler and the leaves turning colors, now is the...

August 03, 2022

The Perfect Hair Tie for Each Hair Type

We’ve repeated over and over again the importance of matching your hair care routine with your specific hair type, whether it be finding a style that complements your hair type or a styling tool that provides the perfect amount of heat. This may shock you, but hair ties are also...

July 21, 2022

Understanding “Humidity Hair” and How to Prevent It!

Who hasn’t seen a movie or tv show where a character takes a tropical vacation to some humid climate and her hair explodes into a frizzy, weightless mess? For many of us, this comedic scene is all too real, with many of us suffering the effects of “humidity hair” when...

June 06, 2022

The Very Best DIY Hair Masks

Hair masks are one of the absolute best ways to dramatically boost your hair’s health and moisture levels in an incredibly short period of time. Whether your hair is going through a dry spell or you’re recovering from an intense chemical treatment, a hair mask can be the perfect weapon...

June 06, 2022

The Positives and Negatives of Perm Hair

Hair perms are one of those longstanding hair procedures that have stood the test of time, beginning in the 1870’s as a primitive way of manipulating one’s hair with heated tongs to today’s more technically advanced methods. While the process of perming one’s hair has undergone many changes over the...

May 09, 2022

The Ultimate Guide to Biotin for Hair Health

When it comes to everything from boosting your natural hair growth to reversing damage from heated styling or chemical hair treatments, it seems like you can’t escape a mention of the wonderful powers of biotin. Biotin is included in everything from hair growth supplements to hair care serums and specialized...

May 09, 2022

The All-Natural Guide to Hair Lightening

Few things can change up your overall look than changing the color of your hair, and these days there are no shortages of wild colors from which to choose from. However, oftentimes these coloring treatments can be extremely harsh and damaging to the hair, causing breakage and excessive moisture loss....

May 09, 2022

The Ultimate How-To Guide to Parting Your Hair

Let’s settle this once and for all: what’s the correct way to part your hair? No, this isn’t a Gen Z and Millennial debate about side parting vs. middle parting (that’s a blog for another day), but rather a definitive guide on how each one of you can pick the...

March 30, 2022

Match Your Hair with Its Perfect Hairbrush Type

So much of our focus, at least when it comes to hairstyling, is place on expensive, high-powered tools like blow-dryers and flat irons. Much of this focus is well-deserved, as these heat styling tools are necessary to achieve the kind of show-stopping, head-turning hairstyles we see in magazines and fashion...

March 30, 2022

Boost Your Hair Hydration with Hyaluronic Acid

It’s no secret that one of the biggest keys to achieving healthy, beautiful hair is keeping your hair hydrated and moisturized. When hair is dry and dehydrated, it lacks the structural integrity needed to hold shape and create the kind of full, bodacious hairstyles we crave. Additionally, when hair is...

March 28, 2022

The Ultimate Scalp Care Guide

We spend so much of our time and focus on perfecting and maintaining our hair health, and for good reason. Our hair is what makes or breaks our look and style, and its visibility means that much work and attention go into making it look its very best. However, much...

March 24, 2022

Everything to Know About Sleeping with Wet Hair

So you’ve come home from a long day at work, you take a shower, and you’re faced with a dilemma: should you take the time to dry off your hair, or should you jump straight in bed? We’ve all been there, and for many of us, we’ve opted for the...

March 23, 2022

The Ultimate Guide to Curling Your Hair

Hair can make or break one’s look, and few things can do more to upgrade any look than big, bouncy curls that beautifully frame the face while adding a fun, carefree edge. However, if your hair is naturally straight, it can be a bit difficult to truly create those long-lasting...

February 03, 2022

A Step-by-Step Guide to Repairing Damaged Hair

Hair damage is something that everyone wants to avoid, and with good reason. From frizzy split-ends to dull, lifeless strands that refuse to hold a style, damaged hair isn’t pretty. Sadly, it occurs far too often, thanks in large part to harsh or excessive chemical treatments and/or poor practices when...

February 03, 2022

The 4 Worst Habits that Cause Dry Hair

Dry hair can be the absolute worst. From a lack of body and fullness to excess frizz and flyaways, dry hair can be nearly impossible to style, and is about the exact opposite thing you think about when you imagine runway-ready hair. Because dry hair typically has a raised cuticle...

February 03, 2022

The Ultimate Healthy Hair Guide

When you close your eyes and think of the perfect head of hair, you probably imagine soft, shiny hair with body for days and perfect elasticity and manageability. As great as this hair looks and feels, however, there is a great deal of hard work and dedication that goes into...

January 18, 2022

The 4 Worst Hair Care Mistakes

Keeping your hair game at tip top shape is a constant balancing act. For example, the majority of us need to utilize heat styling to shape our hair into the desired style, yet too much heat styling can lead to damage and breakage. Similarly, most of us need some sort...

January 17, 2022

Postpartum Hair Loss 101

It’s no secret that your body undergoes a rather unusual and oftentimes exhausting journey throughout the process of pregnancy. From skin changes to weight fluctuations, there’s simply no shortage of physical disruptions to have to be on the lookout for during your pregnancy. Sadly, these physical disruptions often include changes...

October 11, 2021

Top 3 Natural Hair Growth Remedies

Take a look at the hair care aisle in your local grocery store and you’re likely to find dozens upon dozens of products geared towards solving the issue of hair loss. Hair loss and premature balding have long been the most common hair-related issues, and the number of products and...

October 07, 2021

Tea Rinses for Beautiful, Healthy Hair

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, one of the more popular fads in the hair care world has been a tea rinse. For the uninitiated, a tea rinse involves brewing a cup of hot tea, allowing it to cool, and then applying it to a freshly shampooed hair and...

October 06, 2021

Kale: A Lean, Green Hair-Boosting Machine!

When it comes to the world of personal fitness and healthy eating, has any food enjoyed more attention and popularity than kale? This leafy green has been featured in everything from salads to smoothies, with proponents touting its incredible nutritional profile full of vitamins, terpenoids, and flavonoids. Kale has been...

October 04, 2021

Turmeric: The Superstar Ingredient for Hair Loss and Scalp Health

Few ingredients are more fundamental to the culture and cuisine of India and Southern Asia than the spice of the turmeric plant. With its infamous orange-yellow color and earthy, peppery flavor, the spice has been used for centuries for practically everything, whether it be as a central component of curry...

October 01, 2021

Which Professional Blowout Brush is Right for You?

Of all of Sutra’s best-selling styling tools, one of the most unique is the Professional Blowout Brush. Thanks to its 2-in-1 design, the brush combines the volumizing benefits of a blow dryer with the styling and detangling attributes of a round brush. The result? Big, bouncy hair with volume for...

September 15, 2021

A Primer on Blow Dryer Attachments

As incredible as it is to have so many different options for hair tools at your disposal, you certainly wouldn’t be alone in feeling like the number of choices are a bit…overwhelming. From blow dryers to flat irons to heated styling brushes and much, much more, sometimes it seems impossible...

September 15, 2021

Top 5 Back-to-School Hairstyles

Summer is winding down, which means that back-to-school time is just around the corner!  For many teens, this is the first time in over a year that they’ll see their classmates in person, making it all that more important to nail that back-to-school look.  This year, there’s no shortage of...

September 15, 2021

Ancient Hair Care Tips

You would be shocked to learn of the lengths our ancestors went in order to perfect their hair. For example, in the Renaissance era, a common conditioner remedy was to a concoction of olive oil boiled in dead lizards! Thankfully, our hair care methods have evolved since then, and we...

August 16, 2021

Infrared Heat Tools: Yay or Nay?

Have you ever stopped to consider just how advanced the hair care market is today? While our grandparents had to rely on incredibly basic equipment and damaging hair care products, today there is no shortage of product options at our fingertips, with choices to fit virtually any hair type. Among...

August 16, 2021

Maintaining Soft Hair While Travelling

Whether it’s visiting some tropical beach paradise or retreating to a secluded cabin in the woods, there are few things more enjoyable than the idea of a vacation getaway. Sadly, as enjoyable as these trips may be, the unfortunate reality is that traveling can take quite a toll on our...

July 27, 2021

Tips to Manage Your Thick Hair

Few hair types have become more revered in pop culture than the big, “bombshell” look. You know the look: hair that is long, bouncy, and impossibly full and bodacious. However, not everyone realizes that big, thick hair can be quite an undertaking to maintain. Aside from being incredibly tangle-prone, thick...

July 27, 2021

The How-To Guide for Repairing Damaged Hair

As we’ve covered before, hair damage refers to hair whose cuticle layer has become raised or stripped, leaving it unable to maintain moisture or structural integrity. This is caused by a variety of factors, including harsh chemical treatments and excessive heat styling, and common symptoms include split ends, shedding, and...

July 27, 2021

Identifying Hair Damage

For a hairstyling enthusiast, few terms are more terrifying than the words “hair damage”. Although countless among us have splurged on products that claim to treat or prevent hair damage, how many of us really know what damaged hair looks like? To help identify hair damage, we’ve included some tell-tale...

July 27, 2021

How to Deal with a Haircut that’s Too Short

Picture this: you visit your hairstylist and show a new hairstyle you want to try out. You sit in your chair, equal parts excited and nervous to see the results, and you finally turn around to view yourself in the mirror. To your shock and utter horror, the cut is...

June 25, 2021

Your Face Shape and How to Style It

Let us set the scene for something we’ve likely all experienced: you find your “perfect” new hair style after seeing it on some celebrity, you bring the picture to your hairstylist and nervously wait for the outcome, only to be completely and utterly underwhelmed by what you see in the...

June 24, 2021

The Great Blow Dryer vs Hot Air Brush Debate

In recent years, hair care fanatics have been spoiled with all kinds of advanced hair styling tools and innovative new products to make the styling process easier and more effective. Despite all this variety, however, the one tool that’s always managed to stand above the rest is the handy-dandy blow...

June 23, 2021

What to Know Before Coloring Your Hair

Ahhhhh, the first time coloring your hair. Nothing is as nerve-wracking yet exciting than that first time you decide to change your natural hair color, hoping and praying that the final results will match what you had imagined while you sit and wait for everything to dry. For many of...

June 23, 2021

Apple Cider Vinegar & Your Hair: Separating Fact from Fiction

Just about every day, it seems that there’s some brand-new miracle product hitting the market that claims to be the secret to perfect hair. For proof, look no further than your local beauty supply store, where aisle after aisle is filled with countless hair products that boast incredible claims while...

June 23, 2021

Why Frizz Happens and How to Prevent It!

For many, no amount of anti-frizz products or internet advice seems to prevent these frizzy hairs, making the dream of frizz-free hair seem like a far-fetched fantasy. But fret not, frizzy-haired gals! We’re here to give you the advice needed to conquer this problem for good!  Frizz Culprit #1: Heat...

June 18, 2021

Your Curly Hair Type and How to Tame It

Browse any hair care aisle and you’ll see that just about every product is specifically marketed for either straight or curly hair. Much is made about the distinct difference in maintenance and styling requirements for each of these two hair types, and for good reason! However, learning about what your...

June 11, 2021

Sutra Customer Favorites in Each Category

While just about every Sutra product has found its own devoted fan following, there are a couple of best-sellers that have stood out above the rest in their respective categories. After years of gathering customer feedback, allow us to reveal our fan favorite Sutra products in each category!    ...

June 10, 2021

Taking Control of Pregnancy Hair

It’s no secret that pregnancy causes numerous changes to your body during and even after the childbearing process. You see, when a woman become pregnant, her body’s hormone production goes into overdrive. Hormones, such as estrogen and androgen, function like traffic lights for the body’s various organ systems, signaling whether...

June 07, 2021

Win the War on Hair Loss and Hair Thinning

It’s safe to say that just about everyone shares a common fear of losing their hair as they get older. If you want proof, just google the term “hair loss”, and be prepared to be overwhelmed by the countless “miracle” creams, pills, and treatments that promise to stop hair loss...

June 07, 2021

Settling the Great “Sleeping with Wet Hair” Debate

Everyone, and I mean everyone, learns at an early age of the cardinal sin of falling asleep with wet hair. Will your hair fall out? Will you wake up with some horrible illness? There never seems to be a consensus as to why it is so bad to go to...

June 04, 2021

5 Hacks for Healthier Hair

When it comes to our hair, we all want to keep it the healthiest it could be! So we decided to do some research and compile a list of the top 5 things that you should be doing to keep your hair healthy. By doing these 5 simple hacks you’ll...

April 23, 2021

Hairstylist Appreciation Day

Today is Hairstylist Appreciation Day, and we at Sutra can’t think a group of people within the beauty industry more deserving of this amazing celebration! While it goes without saying that we greatly appreciate the amazing hairstylists in our industry each and every day of the year, on this day...