The Crown Sits Best on Healthy Hair: Elle Matches Each Fix to Its Problem

Elle has put together a guide that pairs each kind of harm a head of hair can suffer with the treatment best suited to repairing it. The promised result is the return of lift, gloss and resilience, the three qualities a camera notices first, whether it's pointed at a Beverly Hills red carpet or a pageant stage in Miami. An archive like ours records the gown and the designer, but the hair is the part of the picture that has to be earned well before the evening starts. Organizing the remedies by what went wrong, not by what's on the shelf, is the sensible way to read it: name the problem first, then reach for the cure.

With reporting from Elle.