Top of Mind

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

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • What’s Your Signature?

    What’s Your Signature?

    Our team shares the things they’re known for.

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  • Your Start-of-the-Day Ritual

    Your Start-of-the-Day Ritual

    What do you make time for each morning?

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  • Good People: Chloe Hayward

    Good People: Chloe Hayward

    Multi-talented creative Chloe Hayward shares how her various career paths intertwine, her experience after making the move from New York City to Los Angeles, what self-care and beauty rituals mean...

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  • The Crown Affair Origin Story

    The Crown Affair Origin Story

    How art and storytelling shaped our brand.

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  • Rediscover Your Hair

    Rediscover Your Hair

    How to rekindle your love for your strands. 

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  • Massage Your Scalp

    Massage Your Scalp

    There’s beauty in caring for your scalp. 

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  • Your Hair On Hydration

    Your Hair On Hydration

    Turn dry, dehydrated strands into happy, healthy hair.

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  • Start to Slow Down

    Start to Slow Down

    The feeling of seasonal transition.

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  • Build Your Ritual: The Guide

    Build Your Ritual: The Guide

    Cater to your individual haircare needs with a customized product bundle.

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  • Make Wash Day Last

    Make Wash Day Last

    Keep strands feeling clean and refreshed between washes.

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  • Find Your Inspiration

    Find Your Inspiration

    Where our team is looking for creative influence.

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  • Wear It Up

    Wear It Up

    Your summer hairstyle inspo guide. 

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  • Rest and Reset 

    Rest and Reset 

    Ease back into your routine after time away.

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  • Beach Hair Made Healthy

    Beach Hair Made Healthy

    Effortless summer strands.

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  • Rituals With...Melissa Marsella

    Rituals With...Melissa Marsella

    The LA-based illustrator on the importance of community, the game-changing nature of The Cleansing Scrub, and how she found time for the life she really wanted.

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  • Cool Off Easy

    Cool Off Easy

    Ways to get your hair off your neck.

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  • Stay in the Shade

    Stay in the Shade

    The easiest ways to protect yourself and your hair from the heat this summer.

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  • About The Cleansing Scrub

    About The Cleansing Scrub

    Gently purifying exfoliation for your scalp.

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  • Thinking About Your Scalp

    Thinking About Your Scalp

    What do you want to know? 

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  • Sun and Your Strands

    Sun and Your Strands

    How to care for summer hair.

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  • Rituals with... Dianna Cohen: Spring 2022 Edition

    Rituals with... Dianna Cohen: Spring 2022 Edition

    Our founder shares her most recent haircare and lifestyle ritual practice, and the products she's been loving most recently.

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  • Complete Your Ritual

    Complete Your Ritual

    A step-by-step breakdown of the full set—available now.  

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  • Take Your Time: With Friends

    Take Your Time: With Friends

    How to make the most of being together.

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  • Good People: Kim Johnson

    Good People: Kim Johnson

    Geneva's Head of Community shares her washday rituals, how she's seen the definition of community evolve, and on growing to love her hair—all with a cup of chai tea with...

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  • Rituals With... Lissie Chappell

    Rituals With... Lissie Chappell

    On cutting her own hair, maintaining length, and a laundry list of self-care-driven rituals.

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  • Good People: Teddi Cranford

    Good People: Teddi Cranford

    We sat down with our founder Dianna's hairstylist, Teddi—together with her mom, Tracy, and a special cameo from Teddi's 6-year-old daughter—to talk about the NYC-based hairstyling business they built together...

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