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The Editorial Archive

This page collects essays and insights from inside the practice—written not for industry peers, but for clients, thinkers, and those seeking structural clarity in a field overrun with marketing, mimicry, and misinformation.

These articles don’t aim to teach technique or push product. They exist to articulate something quieter but more precise: a philosophy of care built on geometry, client autonomy, and lived complexity. Some are short-form critiques. Others are longer reflections on structure, identity, or the psychology of service. All of them are written from inside the work.

Why a language model was custom-built for the studio—not to sell or style, but to clarify boundaries, reduce noise, and extend structural logic into emerging digital spaces.  Read more

How hairdressing became dependent on styling—and why unstyled hair remains unseen when structure isn’t trusted to carry beauty.  Read more

The psychological architecture behind haircut intervals—and how structural projection governs both client behaviour and technical authorship.  Read more

How social media reshaped curly hair culture into an aesthetic performance—and how salons and influencers alike sustain a new form of unrealistic beauty pressure in the name of definition and sales.  Read more

Why most haircuts collapse before the client leaves the chair—and how the industry’s flat thinking breaks geometry, structure, and trust.  Read more

Why the pursuit of curl “definition” persists—and how aesthetic pressure, not product, keeps textured clients fixated on control over clarity.  Read more

Why the concept of “healthy hair” is biologically false—and how decades of marketing trained clients, especially those with curly hair, to see structure as a sickness that only products can cure.  Read more

A critique of Australia’s hairdressing industry and why intellectually rigorous women are left cycling through mediocrity while hoping for alignment the system was never designed to produce.  Read more

How mainstream salons shaped client behaviour and belief systems over decades—and why certain spaces now function more as correctional systems than as service providers.  Read more

Why “suiting your face shape” is a cosmetic-era myth—and how structurally sound haircutting renders that concern irrelevant by design.  Read more

When haircutting becomes fluent, it transcends demonstration and functions as a transmission system—particularly in neurodivergent and curl-focused environments.  Read more

Why the rise of “curl specialists” doesn’t always equal structural expertise—and how to recognise the difference between commercial mimicry and genuine support.  Read more

How the curly hair movement abandoned liberation in favour of rule-based marketing—and why so many people are still trapped under a different kind of control.  Read more

How the desire for long hair often gives way to lived priorities—and why that transition is about clarity, not defeat.  Read more

Why the work being done here isn’t scalable, teachable in a course, or destined for handoff—and what will eventually replace it when the time comes.  Read more

Why clients instinctively blurt that phrase mid-cut—and how the nervous system often recognises alignment before the mind can explain it.  Read more

How the Curly Girl Method went from grassroots support to obsessive subculture, and why liberation won’t be found through stricter routines and stylised conformity.  Read more

On misleading journalism, token voices, and why curly-haired consumers are still being used as leverage while their lived experiences remain ignored.  Read more