Meeting a stylish woman with luxurious, thick, shiny, and completely virgin hair is as rare a sighting nowadays as a unicorn. The beauty treatments we undergo can wreak havoc on our preciously fragile follicles. Dying, flat ironing, curling, and other torturous, yet necessary, procedures can result in hair that’s a tangled mess. Savoir Flair’s beauty editors come to the rescue with this guide that will take your locks from frazzled to flaxen in no time at all.

compiled by CAMILLE MACAWILI|written by GRACE GORDON