About HairAdvice

HairAdvice is a small site with one job: help you figure out what your hair actually is before you buy another product for it. Most routines fail because they were written for someone else's hair.

How the quiz works

The quiz is a fixed set of rules, written out by hand and running in your browser. It scores porosity from five observations (soak speed, dry time, product behavior, chemical history, heat use), takes curl pattern from the shape and width you describe, and builds a routine from those plus thickness, scalp and water hardness. Same answers, same result, every time. No answers are sent to us or stored.

It is general guidance, not a diagnosis. Hair loss, scalp pain, persistent flaking or sudden changes in texture are worth showing to a dermatologist.

How the site makes money

Product links go to specific Amazon listings, and each quiz step also links to a wider search so you can compare. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We name a product when its own listing says it does the job the step calls for (a chelating shampoo, a spray leave-in, a heat spray). We don't show prices or star ratings because they change daily. Details in the affiliate disclosure.

How products and advice are chosen

We do not test products by hand, and no page here says we did. A product gets named when its own Amazon listing says it does the specific job a step calls for: a chelating shampoo for hard water, a spray leave-in for fine hair, a heat protectant spray. The name and the reason under each pick come from that listing. We do not show prices or star ratings, and we do not write reviews. Listings change, so we re-check each one before it stays on a page, and swap out any that disappear or no longer match.

Care advice comes from the American Academy of Dermatology and from peer-reviewed papers on hair structure and damage. Each guide lists its sources at the bottom. Where a common tip has little evidence behind it, such as the float test for porosity or cold rinses that "seal" the cuticle, we say so.

Who runs it

HairAdvice is published by OmniLearnConsultingCommerce LLC. You can reach us at info@omnilearn.org. Corrections are welcome: if a guide says something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it.