Her hair really catches the eye. She herself admits that she feels observed wherever she goes and that she is tired of being stopped in the street to be asked if they can touch her hair or if they simply touch it without her permission. Isabel Balde, 32, has beautiful afro hair. The kind that's a huge ball of curls. "People are not aware that touching someone's hair is invading personal space," she says, as her hairdresser styles it and she looks proudly in the mirror. It wasn't always like this. She used to hate her hair.

Hair fibers suffer greatly during the summer: solar radiation dries out and discolors hair, and sea and pool water don't help either. Although Neus Garcia, manager of Neus Hair Salon in Badalona, ​​​​recommends preventing the negative effects by protecting and hydrating your hair properly, and avoiding the use of hairdryers, flat irons, or curling irons during the summer, she offers some tips to recover your usual tone once this period is over.

Long rows of townhouses, surrounded by mowed lawns, wooden gazebos, and the shade of several maples, pines, and magnolias. Just like in the movies, the residents of Plainfield Road in Cincinnati, Ohio, go out to retrieve letters from the tin mailbox at street level and sunbathe on their porches. It's a very quiet neighborhood. However, every now and then a compact concourse of cars breaks the silence. These vehicles are headed to the Milhovk-Rosenacker Funeral Home, located at the end of the street. It's an ostentatious building, presided over by an American flag, and has several viewing rooms. It's adjacent to Rest Haven Memorial Park, a lush green 26-hectare park that has served as a cemetery since 1929. It is in this place where, since March 10, 2012, the remains of John J. Parran Junior, the inventor of the formula for the legendary Head & Shoulders anti-dandruff shampoo, better known by its initials: H&S, rest.