Top of Mind

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

  • Wavy Hair Care Routine: How to Care for Healthy Waves

    Wavy Hair Care Routine: How to Care for Healthy Waves

    Learn how to take care of wavy hair with an intentional routine that helps enhance natural texture, reduce frizz, and support soft, healthy-looking waves.

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  • How to Air Dry: Tips for a Smooth, Frizz-Free Routine

    How to Air Dry: Tips for a Smooth, Frizz-Free Routine

    Learn how to air dry hair with an intentional routine that helps minimize frizz, enhance natural texture, and support healthier-looking hair with Crown Affair.

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  • The PM & AM Hair Care Routine

    The PM & AM Hair Care Routine

    Learn why a night time hair routine matters and discover tips to reduce tangles, maintain moisture, and protect your hair while you sleep.

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  • The Healthy Hair Care Routine

    The Healthy Hair Care Routine

    Explore our definitive hair care routine guide, from brushing and oiling to cleansing and styling, designed to support every hair type.

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  • Discover the Right Brush for Your Hair

    Discover the Right Brush for Your Hair

    Learn how to choose the right hair brush for your hair type. From wooden pin to boar bristle brushes, find the brush that supports your ritual.

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  • Summer Hair Care Tips

    Summer Hair Care Tips

    Discover summer hair care tips to help protect against humidity, sun, chlorine, and dryness. Build a simple summer hair care routine for healthy-looking hair all season long.

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  • Is Using a Microfiber Towel Good for Hair?

    Is Using a Microfiber Towel Good for Hair?

    We tend to think about haircare in terms of formula products. The shampoo we reach for. The conditioner we never skip. The styling products that help us achieve the look...

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  • Tsubaki Hair Oil: Benefits & How to Use

    Tsubaki Hair Oil: Benefits & How to Use

    A heritage ingredient, kept simple. Tsubaki hair oil has shaped Japanese hair rituals for centuries, softening and tending to every strand.

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  • The Hair Care Routine For Fine Hair

    The Hair Care Routine For Fine Hair

    A simple hair care routine for fine hair. Lighter products, considered application, and a routine that flexes around your own rhythm.

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  • How to Use Hair Oil

    How to Use Hair Oil

    There is a version of your hair that feels settled. Soft, but not weighed down. Polished, but not coated. Hair oil, used with intention, is often the step that gets...

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  • You Deserve Better

    You Deserve Better

    Thoughtful formulas. Beautiful tools. Objects that earn a permanent place in your routine. Craftsmanship lives in the details.

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  • Scalp Care Routine: How to Take Care of Your Scalp

    Scalp Care Routine: How to Take Care of Your Scalp

    Scalp care starts at the root. Learn how to take care of your scalp with a simple ritual that supports balanced, healthy hair.

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  • Everything Is Better In Mini: Travel Hair Care Products

    Everything Is Better In Mini: Travel Hair Care Products

    Travel hair care products designed to keep your ritual intact wherever you go.

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  • Crown Affair non-aerosol dry shampoo travel-size

    Meet The Travel Dry Shampoo

    Meet your new dry shampoo for travel. Crown Affair’s non-aerosol, travel-size dry shampoo powder refreshes roots with a soft, weightless finish, extending your wash day with intention wherever you go.

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  • The Crown Affair x U Beauty On-The-Go Duo

    The Crown Affair x U Beauty On-The-Go Duo

    A small touch-up can restore a sense of polish and intention, reminding you that feeling put together doesn’t have to mean starting over. That shared philosophy is what brought Crown...

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  • The Hair Care Routine for Beginners

    The Hair Care Routine for Beginners

    Looking for a hair care routine for beginners? Discover a simple hair care routine for healthy hair, from cleansing to styling and extending wash days.

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  • Can You Let Your Hair Air Dry with Mousse?

    Can You Let Your Hair Air Dry with Mousse?

    Mousse has long been a styling staple, but traditional formulas can leave hair crunchy, sticky, or stiff, often making it feel like you need to wash it out right away....

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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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  • Top of Mind: The Big Clip by Crown Affair x Jennifer Fisher

    Top of Mind: The Big Clip by Crown Affair x Jennifer Fisher

    Some collaborations begin with a shared aesthetic, but the best ones begin with shared values: At Crown Affair, we believe the objects we return to every day should feel as...

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  • Top of Mind: How to Fall in Love With Your Air-Dry

    Top of Mind: How to Fall in Love With Your Air-Dry

    At Crown Affair, everything we make is a love letter to hair written through rituals, patience, and the belief that caring for it should feel as thoughtful as it is...

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  • Top of Mind: Meet The Smoothing Air Dry Cream

    Top of Mind: Meet The Smoothing Air Dry Cream

    We love air-drying for what it gives us back: a few extra minutes in the morning, space to move slowly, time to take care of everything else on your list. 

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  • Top of Mind: Crown Affair x Anastasio Home

    Top of Mind: Crown Affair x Anastasio Home

    This collaboration grew from a shared philosophy: that beauty lives in the details, and that what you touch daily has the power to shape how you move through the day.

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  • Top of Mind: Put On Me Time

    Top of Mind: Put On Me Time

    Crown Affair x Hill House Home Rooted in Ritual Crown Affair has always been about elevating the everyday—inviting ritual and refinement into the most emotional moment of our day: caring...

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  • Top of Mind: The Beauty of Repair

    Top of Mind: The Beauty of Repair

    The beauty of repair while you dream is that it carries you through the in-between season with hair that feels nourished every step of the way. 

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  • Top of Mind: End-of-Summer Hair Rituals

    Top of Mind: End-of-Summer Hair Rituals

    End-of-Summer Hair Rituals: Hydrate, Repair, and Extend Your Wash Day.

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  • Top of Mind: The No-Frizz Air Dry

    Top of Mind: The No-Frizz Air Dry

    We believe all hair is designed to Air Dry with ease, it’s just about choosing the right products and tools that support hydration, smoothness, and definition.

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  • Top of Mind: How To Air Dry This Summer

    Top of Mind: How To Air Dry This Summer

    The Summer Air Dry Quiz, a personalized, results-driven way to unlock your best Air Dry Ritual yet.   

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  • Top of Mind: Scent As Memory

    Top of Mind: Scent As Memory

    This Mother’s Day, we’re celebrating that subtle intimacy with a scented set made to share: The Mother’s Day Bundle.

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  • Top of Mind: éliou x Crown Affair

    Top of Mind: éliou x Crown Affair

    We believe collaboration means more than combining aesthetics—it’s about working with creative friends who share our values. In that spirit, we are proud to introduce our collaboration with éliou, the...

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  • Top of Mind: The Art Of Clean Haircare

    Top of Mind: The Art Of Clean Haircare

    By choosing thoughtfully formulated, high-performing products, we’re setting a new standard in haircare that prioritizes both performance and well-being.

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  • Top of Mind: The Dry Shampoo Campaign

    Top of Mind: The Dry Shampoo Campaign

    Time is the invisible thread woven throughout everything we create. So when it came time to tell the story of the Dry Shampoo—we knew we had to talk about time.

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  • 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

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

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  • 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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