What Your Hair Knows
A Hairdresser’s Notes on Returning to Yourself
Your hair changes before you have found the words for what has changed in your life.
In What Your Hair Knows, Lora writes from thirty-five years behind the chair, where women often arrive saying their hair is wrong and leave having named something deeper. This is not a book about becoming someone else. Instead, it offers a quieter way to read what your hair may be showing you: stress, season, grief, exhaustion, regrowth, identity, and the quiet distance from yourself — without turning the mirror into a courtroom.
Through stories, gentle guidance, small pieces of science, and simple rituals, this book gives you a calmer way to stand at the mirror. It also offers practical help with the ordinary care women face at home: washing, masks, styling, colour, roots, fading, grey, and knowing when not to do more. Not to judge. Not to perform. To notice what is true, and begin coming back to yourself.
Available now in Kindle edition. Also available with Kindle Unlimited.
Not fixed. Not perfected. Returned.
What’s inside
Inside What Your Hair Knows, the chapters move between the mirror, the chair, and the small ordinary decisions women make at home. There are pages on the moment hair stops feeling familiar, the courage and exposure of a new shape, colour as a way of being read, the reality of roots and regrowth, and the seasons when hormones, grief, stress, age, or exhaustion begin to show themselves before a woman has language for what is happening. The book also stays practical. It speaks about washing, masks, styling, fading, grey, porosity, product judgement, and knowing when not to do more — not as a beauty routine, but as a quieter way to meet what is true.
For readers of Wintering, How to Keep House While Drowning, and Maybe You Should Talk to Someone — quiet books that meet perimenopause, midlife change, and the return to self — What Your Hair Knows offers a different kind of companion: literary nonfiction shaped through the physical body, and specifically, through hair.
A one-page Mirror Check is available on the website as a small piece of the companion. The full A Few Things to Keep Close toolkit is reserved for readers inside the book.