Straight To The Root was founded by celebrity hairstylist, Daria Wright. This site stands apart because it provides expert hair care advice from a licensed professional hairdresser who specializes in working with black hair. Wright currently freelances for editorial and television and is based in the New York City area.
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I’m sure you have heard and or even use common generalizations when it comes to describing someone’s hair texture. Many say “Asian hair” for when they want to describe super straight, jet black hair . Others say “African American hair” when they want to describe extremely curly, tightly coiled afro-like hair. And when many describe [...]
If you relax your hair and have a tough time with trying to get your hair to grow, find out how you may be in your own way.
An interesting thing happened to me the other day at the dentist. My hair was freshly shampooed and still damp. I love my natural hairdo, I can shampoo and go. Since I review and test hair products, I’m constantly trying new products or mixing and matching current products. Finding the right product combination cocktail in order to perfect my hairdo is an ongoing [...]
Email question from a subscriber with a hair dilemma. The subject line read “Help ! My Hair Is Falling Off “: “I always notice lots of breakage especially when I wash (my hair). Also when I apply product to do a twist out I always have to keep taking the hair off my fingers because so [...]
As a freelance artist my agent is responsible for securing bookings for me for special hairstyling assignments. These gigs as they are more commonly called are often times for celebrity clients. Hair by Daria Wright and Makeup by Victoria Stiles for Kess Agency Lynn was really great to work with and she was so down to earth. She talked about [...]
With all the new hair products on the already crowded shelves in the beauty supply store, now there’s a new group of labels to grab your attention. Obviously, if the shampoo is promoting the fact that it’s “sulfate-free” then sulfates must be bad, right? Well, not in all cases. Actually sulfates are a detergent or cleansing agent added [...]
Straight To The Root Answer : The answer to this hair growth question is never easy because in fact there really is no “quick” way to grow hair. Hair growth is a steady but gradual process. Our hair is always growing even though we tend not to notice. Just think of how often you have [...]
A texturizer is the term used to describe a chemical process that is performed to slightly change or manipulate the hair’s natural texture or curl pattern. For example, slightly curly hair would be less curly or wavy after a texturizer is done. In order to accomplish this chemical hair service an alkaline-based product such as sodium [...]
The spring and summer of 2010 have proven to be full of surprises. On June 25th, 2010 Daria Wright, celebrity hairstylist and founder of Straight To The Root won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievements in Hairstyling for her work [...]
Question : “I’m in the process of growing my perm out and my hair is in BAD shape. Most of the perm is still in. What products do you recommend?”
Practically every woman that has ever sat in my styling chair is convinced something is wrong with her hair. It doesn’t matter if the woman is black, white, Latina or any other culture. Almost immediately I hear how each woman somehow dislikes her natural hair texture. My client might describe her hair as being just [...]
This is almost hard to believe since it’s so absurd. I came across this article today about an 8 -year- old girl that was made to leave the class by her teacher. The teacher claims that he couldn’t tolerate the girl’s hair product. The product in question apparently was a popular hair dressing lotion by Organic [...]
What may seem like a simple answer to the question of combing natural hair isn’t exactly cut and dry. The answer is no …..and yes. The question of to comb or not to comb depends on when and why you are doing the combing. For the group of African-American women from a certain generation (my mother is one [...]
This is the Part 2 of the four part series on uncovering the reasons behind an extremely itchy scalp. Very often I see clients become intolerant to a chemical process over time. Since your scalp is skin, a hypersensitive scalp can develop over time especially if harsh chemicals are : Overused Misused Chemical relaxers are used to [...]
