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     A lovely, spirited Scottish lady with beautiful corkscrew curls recently shared the following story with me: despite misgivings, she had allowed a friend to talk her into a blind date, her first since the passing of her husband years before. When she arrived at dinner, she was introduced to her date, whose very first words to her were, “Well now, we're going to have to take you to one of those black salons and get that hair straightened, aren't we?"

     Another girl with curls, a manager at a Fortune 100 company, told me that when she had worn her long, curly hair straightened to work for the first time in years, another manager promptly told her she should always wear her hair like that–because she looked much more “competent” with straight hair.

     My name is Tiffany Anderson, and I am a hair stylist and curly hair expert located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The stories above are just two of the many horror stories I hear from my curly clients each and every day. As a girl with curls myself, I–like most others I know–spent many years bawling bucketsful over bad haircuts and brutal blow-drying and styling, etc. because of stylists who didn't know how to handle curly hair, and because of the general lack of information out there on how to care for our lovely curly locks.

     Despite the fact that over 65% of the population has curly hair, curl prejudice and ignorance continues to run rampant through our society. Many beauty schools still ignore the important differences between straight and curly hair, and horror stories continue to abound on hair forums everywhere. It's a sad, sad state of affairs.

     Since 2002, I have been studying the care and maintenance of curly hair, and subsequently began passing that knowledge along to a very happy group of curly ladies whom I am blessed to call my clients–many of whom drive hours and even fly in from other states to come and see me. I continue to be amazed at how little information on curly hair is out there and at the lack of stylists who know and understand its unique properties. Not a week goes by that I am not contacted by someone in the throes of utter desperation who found me on the Internet and begs me to help them–not only women from my home state of Florida, but girls with curls from as far away as countries like Iraq and Greece.

     If you Google "curly hair" on the Internet, you will find a list of sites that show pictures of curly hairstyles or outline just a particular methodology or sell products targeted specifically for curly hair (whether they are actually good for curly hair or not is debatable, but we'll get to that later). And, of course, there is that estimable site, naturallycurly.com, which started a whole revolution around curly hair and has saved the sanity of many a girl with curls in the last decade.

     There seems, however, to be a distinct lack of resources for the average girl with curls that not only explains how to care for and maintain curly hair, but why certain procedures and products are recommended–why some processes work better than others, why some ingredients can spell death for curly hair, why hair texture and porosity are the two single most important properties to consider when devising a maintenance routine, etc.–all in one, easy-to-read location.

     And so, Live Curly, Live Free was born, in an effort to provide objective curly hair education, explain basic hair science and end the daily frustration so many neglected curly souls are still unfairly experiencing. I invite you to join me on this journey through Curly World and I hope you find the information in these pages both helpful and informative.

     Isn't it time for you to live curly and free?