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Because My Laptop Battery is About to Die ThisVerySecondWhoops
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Because Nobody Else Wants to Discuss Your Hair As Much As I Do
08.29.2006
Because I Have Been Just WAITING For the Chance to Whip Out Some Wedding Pictures
09.12.2006
Because I Earned My Degree From Google University
10.04.2006
Because I'm Not the Only Person Here Who Knows a Thing or Four
10.11.2006
Because I Am Ready For My Close-Up, Mr. DeMille
10.17.2006
10.25.2006
Because Who Doesn't Love Free Stuff?
11.01.2006
Because Anna Wintour Would Probably Sue
11.02.2006
Because I Think it's Time For the Return of the Earmuff
11.08.2006
11.27.2006
Because It Pays to be a Shampoo Snob
12.22.2006
01.03.2007
The Things We Do To Our Hair For Love
01.08.2007
01.19.2007
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Various Issues of the Head Area
04.13.2007
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04.30.2007
Price Tag Cage Match: Root Boosters
05.04.2007
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Beauty on a Budget: I Was Told There Would Be No Math
06.22.2007
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Price Tag Cage Match: Drugstore vs. Salon Shampoos
07.09.2007
07.20.2007
07.23.2007
07.27.2007
07.29.2007
Five Hair Mistakes You Are Probably Making. Right Now! OMG! Stop!
08.13.2007
08.27.2007
The Salon Trap: Is My Stylist Ripping Me Off?
08.31.2007
Flashback Friday: Psssssst Instant Spray Shampoo
09.17.2007
Taming Wild Horses and Flyaway Hair
10.03.2007
10.14.2007
10.17.2007
Green for a Day: Homemade Beauty Treatments
10.19.2007
"Damaging" Hair to Make it Better?
10.24.2007
Mystery Meat: Deciphering Cosmetic Ingredients
11.04.2007
Haircut for a Cause: Are Hair Donations Really Worth It?
11.16.2007
Bedhead: Is it OK to Sleep With Wet Hair ?
12.07.2007
Beauty Detox: Caring for Neglected Hair & Skin
12.09.2007
Advice Smackdown Bat Signal: Hair Help in Houston
02.01.2008
Wella Color Preserve: a Reasonably-Priced Salon Shampoo That WORKS? Yes!
02.15.2008
Help for the Dry, Flaky Scalp of Mystery
02.18.2008
When Everybody Hates Your Hair...and You Love It!
02.25.2008
03.10.2008
Exxon Valdez Head: Oily Hair That Just Won't Get Clean
03.24.2008
Styling the Alpha Alpha Mom: Hairstyles for Grey Hair
04.03.2008
What's That Smell: Does Shampoo Go Bad?
04.07.2008
06.06.2008
Flakey: Finding a Dandruff Shampoo That Works
07.03.2008
Eeeeeeeeeek Unwanted Facial Hair!
07.31.2008
How to Treat & Prevent a Sunburned Scalp
08.01.2008
Dos and Don'ts Of Touching Up Home Hair Color
08.04.2008
Wedding Hair Jitters...& Oh Yeah, What's the Deal With That Monistat-Gel-As-Primer Stuff?
08.15.2008
How to Organize Your Hair Accessories
08.21.2008
Salon Do-Overs: What To Do When You Aren't Happy
09.11.2008
What to Wear: Formal Business Attire & the White House
09.19.2008
Hair For a Cause: Safe, Temporary Hair Dyes
11.06.2008
Hair Thursday Secrets REVEALED!
11.10.2008
To Tip or Not to Tip: The Salon Consult
01.05.2009
Do I Really Need To Wash My Hair Every Day?
01.15.2009
Is It Safe To Color My Hair While Pregnant?
02.13.2009
02.16.2009
How To Detangle Major Hair Tangles
02.19.2009
When Your Hair Simply. Won't. Get. Clean.
02.27.2009
04.05.2009
Genie in a Bottle: How to Get "Natural" Blonde Highlights at Home
04.16.2009
How to Cover That Littttttle Bit of Gray Hair
05.21.2009
How to Preserve a Hair Blow-Out
05.22.2009
06.13.2009
Shampoo & Styling Solutions for Soft Water
08.27.2009
Losing Your Head Over Losing Your Hair
10.23.2009
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Amalah is a pseudonym of Amy Corbett Storch. A Washington D.C.-based freelance writer. The Smackdown is published on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. You can follow Amy's daily mothering adventures at www.amalah.com. Also, it's pronounced AIM-ah-lah.
Amy also documented her second pregnancy in a Weekly Pregnancy Calendar, Zero to Forty.
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