As an adolescent in Chicago, Negar Mohammadi remembers her grandmother saying she seemed “as lovely because the fourteenth night time” throughout her summer season visits. It’s a basic Persian expression alluding to the midway level of the lunar cycle, when the moon is at its fullest and most radiant. Her grandma shared a trove of Persian magnificence secrets and techniques, too, at all times arriving with a glass vial of hand-mixed argan and pomegranate oil. She’d easy it into Mohammadi’s lengthy, gold-flecked hair within the summers to restore injury from warmth and chlorine and make it look as luminous because the moon.The oil turned Mohammadi’s one-and-done haircare routine, however by the time she was residing in New York (spending a few years as Vogue’s director of name advertising and marketing) and her grandmother handed away, she needed to discover alternate options. Even the priciest hair oils failed to fix warmth and saltwater injury—Mohammadi is an avid surfer—and so they didn’t scent almost pretty much as good as her grandma’s mix. The formulation felt tremendous luxe, however why weren’t they doing something?She rapidly realized that nearly each hair oil in the marketplace options silicone as a most important ingredient: “It provides the oil that actually slippery, luxurious texture, nevertheless it doesn’t truly do something in your hair,” Mohammadi explains. So she tried making her personal, recalling the components, texture, and scent of her grandmother’s concoction. A vat of 100% argan oil Mohammadi present in a well being meals retailer was extremely thick and smelled too earthy; a uncooked pomegranate oil was additionally too heavy, sitting on high of her hair relatively than sinking into it. Melted coconut oil labored, kind of, nevertheless it left even Mohammadi’s thick hair trying greasy for days.14th Night founder Negar MohammadiPicture: Jenna Duffy / Courtesy of 14th Night
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