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Navigating hair color can feel like a game of trial and error, but understanding the truth behind common myths changes everything. By the end of this episode, you will understand why total honesty about your hair history is essential, how to choose the right tones for your skin, and how to adapt your blonde to seasonal lighting. You will also discover the true technical differences between highlights, lowlights, balayage, and ombré.

Host Hadnet Tesfai shares her personal curiosity about gray coverage and big color shifts alongside industry icon Lesley Jennison. Drawing from over 40 years of high-level salon experience, Lesley...

Can your hair really keep a secret? Being honest with your hairstylist is always the first rule of coloring your hair. But what actually happens inside those foils when chemical reactions take place? This episode will dive into the science of hair color and then use scientific expertise to weave our way towards questions that are relevant for our daily dyeing situation.

For this deep dive into the world of color, host Hadnet Tesfai is joined by seasoned expert Ian Mayer-Marszalek. Hadnet and Ian are taking us behind the scenes of color chemistry, debunk common misconceptions about home-dyeing and dark...

Stop striving for the perfect social media look: True hair confidence comes from working with your individual texture, not against it. In this episode, we decode the needs of your hair structure and explore why 'Product Cocktailing '— the expert blend of primers, serums, and mousse — is the secret to revolutionary styling.
Hadnet Tesfai sits down with runway icon Nick Irwin to debunk common hair care myths. They address the frequent fear of using products on fine hair, break down the physics behind heat damage, and reveal how you can use your natural quirks — like cowlicks or unique...

Fine hair needs daily washing, yet exactly that makes the scalp much oilier. If you want to successfully wash your hair, you need to break the vicious cycle of stripping away sebum and forcing your sebaceous glands to overproduce. By the end of this episode, you will understand how to determine your perfect washing rhythm. You will discover how to strategically focus shampoo at the roots to protect your ends, and learn why the exact order of masks and conditioners dictates your final volume.

Host Hadnet Tesfai brings her personal journey of navigating dense natural curls and intense styling from...

Finding a clump of hair in the shower drain can trigger instant panic, but true peace of mind comes from understanding the boundary between routine shedding and actual hair loss. If you want to accurately assess your scalp's health, you need to look past the "shampoo day delusion" and decode the biological timeline of your follicles. By the end of this episode, you will understand how the asynchronous human hair cycle naturally sheds up to 200 strands a day, and why less frequent washing loops curly girls into a shocking, cumulative optical illusion under the shower. You will discover how...

Bringing a celebrity photo to the salon might show a desired tone, but true consultation checks whether you want the colour or just their lifestyle vibe. If you want to walk out with the exact results you had in mind, you need to master expectation management and learn how to communicate with your colourist. By the end of this episode, you will understand how to actively navigate a technical hair colour consultation by looking into your stylist's eyes instead of through the mirror. You will discover why the biological architecture of red pigments makes them highly prone to rapid colour...

Your hair is a silent witness to human history — it has protected our ancestors from the sun and today serves as a canvas for our deepest personal expressions. In the second episode of "Gossip Curl," we get into the significance of hair and also a bit of it’s history. Why do humans have hair at all and how far back did that happen? Which hairstyles and hair cuts were most popular “back in the day” and why trends can dictate the times in so many ways.
You will discover how hair originally functioned as a biological "solar shield" and...

Your hair is the only accessory you never take off — yet many people spend more time choosing their shoes than truly understanding their hair. In the premiere episode of "Gossip Curl" we get into the meaning of hair and the emotional side of it. Why does someone change their hair after a breakup, celebrating a personal milestone, or the start of something new/a new chapter in life? Hair holds memories and confidence, that is why it is so hard to make a cut sometimes Stick around and listen up to how hair can really change your mood..

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Welcome to Gossip Curl, the podcast show that dives deep into all things hairto explore the connection between evolution, identity, and culture.

Host Hadnet Tesfai is convinced that hair is never just hair—it’s the only accessory we never take off and can change your whole mood. It reflects everything you’ve ever done to it, and that’s exactly why we’re here forhair myths,science, and the "wait… is that actually true?!" aspects of it all.

Gossip Curl offers profound knowledge and personal insights for anyone who wants to finally understand our most powerful means of expression.

A new episode drops every other...