Hair by Paula Marchetti

With straighteners, hair dryers, and curling irons at our fingertips it’s easy to overlook one of the staple tools in our haircare arsenal—the hairbrush. Most of us use one every day, whether it’s for a quick detangle or careful styling—but the hairbrush as we know it didn’t always exist. The history of the hairbrush begins with the comb. Found by archeologists at Paleolithic dig-sites around the world, combs date back to the origins of man-made tools. Carved from bone, wood,