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Different states are now rolling out their own rulings as regards resuming business hours during the COVID-19 crisis—so yes, before making that beeline to your neighborhood stylist, we suggest first doing your due diligence and researching your local guidelines on salon reopenings. That said, we spoke to Renée Valerie, the US Technical Education Director of the TIGI Advanced Hairdressing Academy in New York to give us some information on reopenings in the city, to help give your online searches a bit more direction....

However, striving for success usually gets in the way. As soon as we try to get something else, or be somewhere else, we move into desire or aversion, rather than accepting the reality of how and where we are. This creates trouble. We try to work out how to get calm, or get rid of negativity, or force insight to come. We start pushing for results. Peace can come with practice, but only when we stop trying to hold on to, avoid, or resist what’s already happening....

** They’re commonly packaged as sprays, creams, blow-dry lotions, prepping formulas, foams, and leave-in conditioners, all made to protect strands before heat styling from a blow dryer or iron, as well as even provide some grip and control. What these all have in common are two silicones: Cyclomethicone and dimethicone. Silicones and Heat Styling Cyclomethicone is a clear, fast-evaporating, very lightweight silicone commonly used in leave-in hair products. It helps give hair that silky feeling—if your hair has that lovely “slip” after conditioning, that’s Cyclomethicone at work....