Top of Mind

Our space for the rituals, stories, and science behind our unique hair identities.

  • Top Of Mind: Hair is a Fiber

    Top Of Mind: Hair is a Fiber

    When you start to see your hair as a fiber rather than just something to style or manage, everything shifts. 

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  • Air Dry January: Embrace Your Natural Texture

    Air Dry January: Embrace Your Natural Texture

    Lean into the art of air drying—and let your natural hair shine.

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  • Good People: Leigh Plessner

    Good People: Leigh Plessner

    Catbird’s Creative Director on dollar-store headbands and going silver.

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  • Good People: Kelsey Lim

    Good People: Kelsey Lim

    The creator behind Abel Objects shares the process behind her sterling silver Crown Affair comb.

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  • A Conversation With Carly Kuhn

    A Conversation With Carly Kuhn

    The artist and illustrator behind our holiday packaging.

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  • Dianna's Favorite Things

    Dianna's Favorite Things

    Our founder and CEO shares everything she's loving (and gifting) this holiday season.

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  • This is Crown Affair

    This is Crown Affair

    Let us reintroduce ourselves.

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  • Good People: Doria Santlofer

    Good People: Doria Santlofer

    The stylist and co-founder of Rosette NYC reminds us to embrace the feeling of childhood, as she navigates raising her own child and running her own business.

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  • Meet: The Calming Scalp Serum

    Meet: The Calming Scalp Serum

    Our newest formula is finally here. Here’s why a calm scalp is a healthy one.

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  • Good People: Bridgette Hill

    Good People: Bridgette Hill

    Meet The Scalp Therapist—the Miami-based trichologist talks love and loss, finding mindfulness in her everyday, and how her personal experience with alopecia led her to study the scalp.

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  • Scalp Health is Hair Health

    Scalp Health is Hair Health

    For comfort you can see—how scalp care visibly affects your overall hair health.

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  • On Forming Healthy Habits

    On Forming Healthy Habits

    Here’s how to create good habits when it comes to haircare—and make sure they stick.

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  • Introducing: The Hair Quiz

    Introducing: The Hair Quiz

    Your personalized guide to haircare—with a few questions, we’ll make your hair goals come true.

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  • Ways To Air Dry

    Ways To Air Dry

    Lean into the art of air drying—and let your natural hair shine.

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  • How To Take Care Of Wavy Hair

    How To Take Care Of Wavy Hair

    The best way to maintain those soft, healthy, natural waves.

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  • The Mother’s Day Gift Guide

    The Mother’s Day Gift Guide

    Some gift inspo for the women we love. 

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  • Good People: Eva Alt

    Good People: Eva Alt

    We interviewed dancer and realtor Eva Alt for our latest Good People feature—she talks perfecting the ballet bun—then learning to let it down.

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  • Your Haircare Toolkit

    Your Haircare Toolkit

    Everything you’ll need for the perfect air dry—from combs to scrunchies. 

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  • How To Give Your Hair Volume

    How To Give Your Hair Volume

    Wanting a little extra volume? Here’s how to achieve it—the healthy way.

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  • The Importance Of A Weekly Treatment

    The Importance Of A Weekly Treatment

    You don’t need to leave the house for a spa treatment—here’s how to give your hair a luxurious weekly refresh.

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  • How to Build a Haircare Routine

    How to Build a Haircare Routine

    Trust us, this is what we do best—we broke it down for you.

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  • Good People: Kathleen Sorbara

    Good People: Kathleen Sorbara

    The owner of Chickee’s Vintage on embracing gray hairs and the unknown.

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  • How To Deep Condition Hair

    How To Deep Condition Hair

    All hair types can benefit from a deep conditioning treatment—and here’s how to do it right.

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  • Our Product Philosophy

    Our Product Philosophy

    We pride ourselves on using fewer, better quality ingredients—and here’s why.

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  • How To Grow Out Your Hair

    How To Grow Out Your Hair

    Our tips on how to get those long, luscious locks—the healthy way.

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  • 5 Ways to Style

    5 Ways to Style

    Some styling inspo with our favorite product pairing—The Finishing Gel & The Brush No. 003. Here’s to playing around.

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  • How Our Combs & Clips Are Made

    How Our Combs & Clips Are Made

    Our highly durable combs are made with a plant-based cellulose acetate and crafted with the highest care by artisans in Switzerland.

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  • How To Use Dry Shampoo 

    How To Use Dry Shampoo 

    A step-by-step guide to your non-wash-day hero.

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  • 5 Ways to Show Your Hair Extra Love

    5 Ways to Show Your Hair Extra Love

    In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, here’s our guide to giving your strands a little extra love this month.

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  • The Ultimate Finishing Touch

    The Ultimate Finishing Touch

    Get to know our first styling formula, The Finishing Gel, and learn about our styling philosophy at Crown Affair.

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  • Post Shower Rituals

    Post Shower Rituals

    What’s your post-shower routine?

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  • Three Years of Crown Affair

    Three Years of Crown Affair

    A note from our founder as we reflect on these past three years.

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  • Fewer But Better

    Fewer But Better

    A guide to paring down your haircare routine.

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  • The New Luxury

    The New Luxury

    All about our core formulas & tools.

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  • Good People: Madison Utendahl

    Good People: Madison Utendahl

    "I spent years relaxing, straightening, dyeing... It wasn't until I understood that hating my hair was a product of a larger system, that I changed my understanding and view of...

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  • On Resolutions

    On Resolutions

    Happy New Year from Team CA!

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  • Our Year In Review

    Our Year In Review

    Reflecting on this past year, what we’ve accomplished, and how grateful we are to our community.

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  • The Going Out Checklist 

    The Going Out Checklist 

    How to prepare your hair for a holiday night out.

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  • Good People: Ren von Hasseln

    Good People: Ren von Hasseln

    The artist behind Ren Ceramics and creator of our 8-piece collaboration talks hair, the many joys of life, and the process behind her exclusive Crown Affair collection. 

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  • Introducing Crown Affair x Ren Ceramics 

    Introducing Crown Affair x Ren Ceramics 

    Our founder shares some background on how this unique stoneware vessel collaboration came to be. 

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  • What’s Your Holiday Look?

    What’s Your Holiday Look?

    We turned to our team for some inspo on how they’re dressing up (or down) for the holidays.

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  • Notes For The Holiday

    Notes For The Holiday

    As Thanksgiving and the holidays approach, we’re taking a moment to practice gratitude.

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  • The Holiday Season Packing List

    The Holiday Season Packing List

    The haircare essentials to pack for your travels this season.

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  • Good People: Gaby Dalkin

    Good People: Gaby Dalkin

    The chef behind What’s Gaby Cooking shares her nightly haircare routine and her favorite one-bowl fall baking recipe.

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  • The Ultimate Gift Guide

    The Ultimate Gift Guide

    From a favorite meditation journal to a watercoloring session, here’s everything our team is gifting—or asking for—this season.

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  • Everything Is Better In Mini

    Everything Is Better In Mini

    We launched minis as our Holiday ‘22 collection.

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  • Care For Your Hair

    Care For Your Hair

    Fall in love with your strands. 

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  • On Scents and Memories

    On Scents and Memories

    How your sense of smell can transport you out of the everyday.

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