Lorraine Massey

Michele Bender

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

Say Goodbye to the Dye and Let Your Natural Light Shine: a Handbook

DISCOVER THE POWER of Silver Whether you’re naturally graying, weaning yourself off the dye, or coveting the chic #grannyhair trend, your hair will shine with this empowering guide. Here are step-by-step tips on letting nature take its course—or using lowlights, highlights, blending, and toning to transition with minimal drama (and avoid a skunk line). Tips on haircuts, tricks for the best care (conditioning is crucial). Products, including the DIY variety. Plus, the most flattering clothing and makeup to accentuate any shade of gray. With unique treatments and techniques from hair guru Lorraine Massey, Silver Hair is a call for celebrating and enhancing your natural radiance, with thrilling results. Welcome to the inspiring guide for every woman who’s ready to find her true colors. Written by the authors of the national bestseller Curly Girl, here is everything you need to know, from going gray stylishly to living silver gorgeously, including Silver Lining Stories and before-and-after photos of real women. Going silver is not just about a certain look, or saving time and money at the stylist—it’s about fulfilling a deeper desire for authenticity, empowerment, and the freedom to be oneself at any age. So let’s get started. Featuring: The many perks of naturally silver hair Style and beauty to play up the silver Toners and color blending Avoiding the skunk line Hair care routines DIY recipes, including Lavender and Verbena Herbal Hair Tonic Face-framing silver streaks

Silver Hair

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Colorado

Hair Love

Illinois

Provides step-by-step instructions on how to create braids, flips, buns, and other fashionable hairstyles. Includes a section on making barrettes, scrunchies, and trims.

Hair Design vintage book

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New Jersey

NYC's Only A-Z Guide to Beauty and Wellness: Over 900 Spas, Salons, Fitness Locations, Stores & Products

Shecky's Beauty Book

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Handbook

Curly Girl

LaTonya Yvette

A bold, graphic picture book celebrating all types of hair. With striking, colorful graphics and simple alliterative text, this paper-over-board book with thick interior stock features poufy hair, wavy hair, Afro hair, hair covered in a hijab, and more. The message is clear: no matter what you look like, you are beautiful, valued, and welcome everywhere.

The Hair Book

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Matthew A. Cherry

Ohio

"I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter. Matthew leads the ranks of new creatives who are telling unique stories of the Black experience. We need this." - Jordan Peele, Actor & Filmmaker It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this ode to self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters, from former NFL wide receiver Matthew A. Cherry and New York Times bestselling illustrator Vashti Harrison. Zuri's hair has a mind of its own. It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Zuri knows it's beautiful. When Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. But he LOVES his Zuri, and he'll do anything to make her -- and her hair -- happy. Tender and empowering, Hair Love is an ode to loving your natural hair -- and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere.

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Deborah Chiel

Florida

The Curly Girl manifesto is back, now completely revised, updated, and expanded by more than a third with all-new material. Created by curly hair evangelist Lorraine Massey—the go-to curl expert featured in Allure, InStyle, Lucky, Seventeen, and The New York Times; and founder of several curly salons and curly products in New York City—Curly Girl is the surprising bible for the 65 percent of women with naturally curly or wavy hair and a desire to celebrate it. Curly Girl is packed with unique and fail-proof hair-care methods, inspiration, and an empowering pro-curl attitude. It’s all here: daily routines for Botticelli, fractal, and wavy curls; Lorraine’s no-more-shampoo epiphany—handle your hair as gently as you do your best cashmere sweater; homemade lotions and potions. New to this edition: an illustrated, step-by-step guide to trimming your own hair (remember: it’s not what you take off; it’s what you leave on); a section on the particular needs of wavy hair; Lorraine’s Down-and-Dirty Curly Boy Routine; more fabulous ’dos for weddings and other special occasions; a chapter on multicurltural hair written by an African American specialist. Plus, updated information on green and chemical-free products, 20 new Q&As, and a DVD with tutorials on caring for four different types of curls. From now on, there’s no such thing as a bad hair day.

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Wisconsin

Belinda Hay

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Vintage styles have never been more popular, with everyone from Madonna and Scarlett Johansson to Dita Von Teese indulging in retro glamour.

Whether you want to style your hair for a special party or event, a night out, or just for fun, this must-have book has all you'll need to recreate the decadence and fun of vintage styles.



Filled with step-by-step instructions, tips and techniques, and detailed photographs for hairstyles from the 1930s to the 1960s, Style Me Vintage provides everything you'll need to create authentic 'do's - whether you want to look like Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake or Brigitte Bardot.

Style Me Vintage: Hair: Easy Step-By-step Techniques for Creating Classic Hairstyles (Style Me Vintage)

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Rubi Jones

The Ultimate DIY Guide to Braids, Buns, Curls, and More

Hairstyling is a timeless way for women to create something unique and express themselves. Whether you wash it and run out the door, combine looks like edgy cornrows with disheveled waves or defy gravity with a sky-high ‘60s beehive, your easy-to-follow guide to hair is here. With nearly 50 diverse styles and tips for every type of hair length and texture, The Art of Hair: The Ultimate DIY Guide to Braids, Buns, Curls and More is the definitive guide to DIY hairstyling for women of all ages, styles and hair types. From the basics like hair 101 and frizz-free blowout instructions to sections dedicated to ponytails, buns and chignons, braids, twists and rolls, and curls – this book has you and your hair covered. Step-by-step, illustrated guides accompany each lavishly photographed look, ensuring that every style is accessible for every hair type. Having styled hair for world-renowned brands in cities from New York to Paris, Rubi Jones is well versed in general hair care, simple techniques, extravagant hairstyles and everything in between. Whether you have naturally have thin, pin-straight short hair or long, thick layers of curls, Rubi gives you the tools your need to complete any hairstyle. Learn her tricks, infuse these looks with your signature style and become your own favorite stylist with The Art of Hair.

The Art of Hair

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Christine Moodie

New York

Thirty hairstyles to suit any situation range from casual looks, to formal styles for the workplace, to sophisticated arrangements for evening, and are accompanied by tips on hair care, equipment, and techniques

Five Minute Hair Stylist

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Nekhena Evans

North Carolina

Everything You Need to Know: African, Dread and Nubian Locks

Hairlocking

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Stacey Dugliss-Wesselman

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Cold Spring Apothecary's Cookbook of Hand-Crafted Remedies and Recipes for the Hair, Skin, Body, and Home

With the resurgence of small-batch, locally crafted boutiques and brands that mimic heritage brand ideals, today's consumers are looking for a product with an emphasis on locally sourced production and ingredients. They are already stocking their pantries and fridges with natural, whole foods and relying on real ingredients for better health. The Home Apothecary offers fresh ideas for caring for the body on the outside, too. It features a bounty of recipes: more than 75 original, natural, and absolutely chemical-free body care products from face masks to bug repellent to soothing lotions. Cold Spring Apothecary's nationally recognized green-luxury beauty and home goods formulas will be taught in such a way that readers will soon be experimenting on their own.

The Home Apothecary

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Ebony Flowers

Michigan

An auspicious debut examining the culture of hair from the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award–winning cartoonist Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women’s lives and coming-of-age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved into. In “Virgin Hair,” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. “My Lil Sister Lena” shows the stress of being the only black player on a white softball team. Lena’s hair is the team curio, an object to be touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Throughout Hot Comb, Ebony Flowers re-creates classic magazine ads idealizing women’s need for hair relaxers and products. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through these stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her Ph.D., and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. From her black-and-white drawings to her color construction-paper collages, Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.

Hot Comb

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Alli Webb

How to Get the Perfect Blowout at Home

"Webb, a long-time stylist and life-long curly hair girl, founded Drybar in 2010 as an affordable luxury--offering women a great blowout in a beautiful and fun atmosphere. Today, there are more than 60 Drybars across the country, with more opening every day. Drybar's book makes it easy for women to get the Drybar look at home. Webb shares her tried and true tricks and tips in three ... sections featuring more than 100 style-inspiration photographs and step-by-step tutorials"--Amazon.com.

The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Lauren Conrad Style

Nikki Grimes

In this rhyming story, an African American girl hides when it's time to comb and braid her hair.

Wild, Wild Hair

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Elizabeth Benedict

Virginia

Twenty-Seven Women Untangle an Obsession

Ask a woman about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny, and always forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations about every aspect of women’s lives from family, race, religion, and motherhood to culture, health, politics, and sexuality. They take place in African American kitchens, at Hindu Bengali weddings, and inside Hasidic Jewish homes. The conversation is intimate and global at once. Layered into these reminiscences are tributes to influences throughout history: Jackie Kennedy, Lena Horne, Farrah Fawcett, the Grateful Dead, and Botticelli’s Venus. The long and the short of it is that our hair is our glory—and our nemesis, our history, our self-esteem, our joy, our mortality. Every woman knows that many things in life matter more than hair, but few bring as much pleasure as a really great hairdo. "A terrific read for those of us who obsess about our hair. Or those who live with those of us who do. A collection that’s, I dare say, a cut above the rest.” —Mary Morris, author of The Jazz Palace

Me, My Hair, and I

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Patricia Mignon Hinds

The millions of sisters who read Essence have always known that looking and feeling good go hand in hand. True beauty is much more than perfect makeup and a great hairstyle. It's about maximizing your potential spiritually, mentally, and physically. Here, from Essence, is a step-by-step guide on how to make the most of your assets.
The Essence Total Makeover offers practical advice in-depth guidance to being your best. You will learn how to:
- care for your face, cleanse your skin, and moisturize it to bring out its natural glow
- treat your hair with love, assess its condition, and decide which styles are best for you
- nurture your body from head to toe, with everything from recipes for at-home manicures to expert advice on beginning a fitness program
- incorporate healthy eating into your active lifestyle
- get your life in balance by seeing what works and what can work better
- tap into your soul power and find peace

Body, Beauty, Spirit

Introduction by Susan L Taylor. Illustrated throughout with stunning full-colour photos, this gorgeous guide to health and beauty is a must-have for all black women. Produced in association with Essence, the world's largest black interest magazine, it provides essential advice on all aspects of inner and outer beauty, helping readers - spiritually, mentally and physically - to maximise potential and make the most of their assets.

The Essence Total Makeover

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Claribel A. Ortega

Indiana

Marlene loves three things: books, her cool Tía Ruby, and hanging out with her best friend Camila. But according to her mother, Paola, the only thing she needs to focus on is school and "growing up." That means straightening her hair every weekend so she can have "presentable," "good hair."But Marlene hates being in the salon and doesn't understand why her curls are not considered pretty by those around her. With a few hiccups, a dash of embarrassment, and the much-needed help of Camila and Tia Ruby, she slowly starts a journey to learn to appreciate and proudly wear her curly hair.

Frizzy

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Patrick Cameron

Jacki Wadeson

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Georgia

Dressing Long Hair

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Lisa Akbari

No matter what style you choose, you can take care of your hair so that it:

- heals from any damage caused by heat or chemicals
- grows to its maximum length and thicknessis 
- soft and manageable
- is controlled by you, not the other way around!

Lisa Akbari, leading researcher into black women's hair, teaches you how to:

- tell what hair type and texture you have so you're using the right products
- shampoo and condition for the best hair possible
- use heat and chemicals safely and still keep your hair healthy and strong
- take care of your scalp to get rid of itching, flaking and dryness
- choose a salon and stylist and get the best results from them
- manage new growth and comb your hair without pain or pulling
- manage your style so it looks beautiful every day

Most importantly, you'll find out how to have a great attitude about your own hair, so you'll never have "bad hair" again.

A Positive Approach to Managing Any Hair and Style

No matter what style you choose, you can take care of your hair so that it:

--heals from any damage caused by heat or chemicals

--grows to its maximum length and thickness

--is soft and manageable

--is controlled by you, not the other way around!




Lisa Akbari, leading researcher into black women's hair, teaches you how to:

--tell what hair type and texture you have so you're using the right products

--shampoo and condition for the best hair possible

--use heat and chemicals safely and still keep your hair healthy and strong

--take care of your scalp to get rid of itching, flaking and dryness

--choose a salon and stylist and get the best results from them

--manage new growth and comb your hair without pain or pulling

--manage your style so it looks beautiful every day




Most importantly, you'll find out how to have a great attitude about your own hair, so you'll never have "bad hair" again.

The Black Woman's Guide to Beautiful Hair

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Mechal Renee Roe

Mechal Renee Roe, illustrator of Vice President Kamala Harris's Super Heroes Are Everywhere, creates a joyful, positive, read-together book celebrating boys with natural black hair that will have kids everywhere chanting: "I am born to be awesome!" When the stars shine, the world is mine! I am born to be awesome! My hair is free, just like me! I am born to be awesome! Boys will love seeing strong, happy reflections of themselves in this vibrant, rhythmic book full of hip Black hairstyles. From a 'fro-hawk to mini-twists and crisp cornrows, adorable illustrations of boys with cool curls, waves, and afros grace each page, accompanied by a positive message that will make kids cheer. It's a great read-aloud to promote positive self-esteem to boys of all ages, building and growing the foundation of self-love (and hair love!) and letting every boy know that "You are born to be awesome!" Look for all the books in the Happy Hair series: • Happy Hair • I'm Growing Great • Smart Sisters • I Am Born to Be Awesome! (Step Into Reading) • I Love Being Me! (Step Into Reading)

Cool Cuts

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LaTonya Yvette

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Belinda Hay

Style Me Vintage: Hair: Easy Step-By-step Techniques for Creating Classic Hairstyles (Style Me Vintage)

Rubi Jones

The Art of Hair

Christine Moodie

Five Minute Hair Stylist

Nekhena Evans

Hairlocking

Stacey Dugliss-Wesselman

The Home Apothecary

Ebony Flowers

Hot Comb

Alli Webb

The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All

Lauren Conrad

Lauren Conrad Style

Nikki Grimes

Wild, Wild Hair

Elizabeth Benedict

Me, My Hair, and I

Patricia Mignon Hinds

The Essence Total Makeover

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Frizzy

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Patrick Cameron

Lisa Akbari

The Black Woman's Guide to Beautiful Hair

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