Arthur Sebastian

Professional Hair Stylist

Arthur Sebastian is a Professional Hair Stylist based in San Francisco, California. He is the Owner of Arthur Sebastian Hair Salon, a studio offering Hair Styling, Color & Brazilian Blowout services. Arthur has 30 years of experience styling hair. His career began with apprenticeships at Wayne’s Beauty College in Santa Cruz, California Miss Marty’s School of Beauty in San Francisco, California. After receiving his Cosmetology License in 1998, he rented his first station at Wack Shack Hair Salon in San Francisco, going on to hold positions at Posh Hair Salon, Acabello Hair Salon, and Red Union Salon before opening his own studio. With over 500 online customer reviews, Arthur Sebastian Hair Salon has a 5 star average rating on Yelp and 4.9 average review on Google.

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How often should you cut your hair if you want it to grow?

If you are dealing with hair breakage, you probably should lessen up on hot tools and have some deeper conditioning occasionally done by a professional or even by yourself.

An adequate trim can help with hair breakage: imagine breaking a pencil and causing all those rough, split edges. It's the same with hair: if the hair is broken, the ends split (hence the word split ends). If you cut the hair regularly, preventing the hair from getting to that split end stage, it's not going to keep splitting all the way out. So, by getting a trim, you can actually help the hair to grow a little bit longer by nourishing the ends and by keeping them cleanly cut, so to speak.

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How can I help my hair grow?

You can't really make it grow any faster, but you can keep it from breaking. Make sure you get adequate trims, because if the ends split, it's like a pencil breaking—that split will keep travelling up the hair. If you keep the ends cleanly cut, it won't reach that split end stage, so you'll get to a longer length faster.

How can I manage my thick, curly hair?

Invest in a good cream that will take away the frizziness from your hair. Also, it's probably better to grow it a little longer, so the weight of your hair will pull your curls flatter.

Does a fade have to be a skin fade?

Not necessarily. A fade just refers to the hair haircut where the hair tapers gradually from one length into another. There are tons of different fades out there.

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