Paradisefold Blog — silk hair wrap for sleeping curly hair

September always feels like the start of something, even long after school is over. New notebooks, new routines, a general sense that it's time to get our lives (and our hair) in order. So this month, we're heading Back to Hair School with a teacher who genuinely knows his subject: Ian Carmichael, hairdresser to the late Queen for 25 years and now part of the Trevor Sorbie team. Ian has been behind the chair for longer than most of us have been washing our own hair. He has seen every trend come and go, styled through decades of changing weather, changing products and changing hair health. When we sat down with him, we expected polished soundbites. What we got instead...

If you have curly hair, you already know: mornings are unpredictable. You went to bed with defined, hydrated curls. You wake up with something between a bird's nest and a science experiment. The shape is gone, the frizz is real, and you're reaching for the spray bottle before you've even made coffee. This isn't bad luck. It's physics. And once you understand what's actually happening to your curls overnight, the solution becomes obvious. What happens to curly hair while you sleep Straight hair lies flat against a pillow. The contact area is relatively small, and the hair moves as one mass. Curly hair is different. Each curl creates a point of contact with the pillowcase, and because curls have volume...

July is here, and with it comes longer days, sun-drenched afternoons, and the kind of slow, golden hours that make summer feel like its own world. Whether you're island-hopping, road-tripping, or finally taking that trip you've been putting off, we're stepping into travel season with intention. But movement does something to us. Not just to our scenery, but to our rhythms, our energy, our bodies. At Paradisefold, this summer is about protection in every sense: of our hair, our skin, our sleep, our sense of self. Here's what travel really does to us, and how to meet it with care. Travel & the Body: Stress in Motion Even the most beautiful trip asks more of your body than you might...