Anyone who has ever made a drastic hair color change knows the highs and lows that come with it. You leave the salon with flawless color, but within a few weeks, roots start to peak through, and you ...

There was a time when dark roots could make us buckle at the knees. After just a few weeks of picture-perfect color, they’d start slowly creeping in to wreck our butter blonde or caramel brown ...

Showing regrowth was once a sign of letting go, but a deliberate shadow can be extremely flattering Annabel Jones is an award-winning beauty journalist spanning over 25 years at glossy magazines and ...

Things that benefit from a little melting: snow, a massage candle, the Wicked Witch of the West. Things we are 99.8 percent positive you do not want to melt: your hair — that is, unless you're talking ...

Today is the day, folks – 23 September officially marks the first day of autumn. So, instead of wallowing over the grey skies and rain that graces us this Friday morning (gah), why not draw up some ...

Truly great root touch-up kits don’t just get the job done—they also make your hair feel great. That’s why colorist Buffy Beery of the Calvin Mitchell Salon in Louisville, Kentucky, loves this spray ...

We're constantly on the lookout for new ways to play with our look so it only makes sense that "root play" is something experts predict we'll be very into this spring. Roots, in general, are always a ...

Emily is a New York-based writer and InStyle's evergreen and special projects editor. Paris Hilton has a classic example of a shadow root, with darker dirty blonde or brunette roots blending into ...