Twenty-Five Years of Other People’s Hair

I fried my own hair with a drugstore bleach kit when I was nineteen. Orange in the front, brassy yellow in the back, a chemical burn behind my left ear that took two weeks to heal. That disaster is the reason I enrolled in cosmetology school the following spring, and it’s still the reason I get quietly angry when I read hair advice online. Somewhere right now, a woman is about to do to her hair what I did to mine, and most of what she’ll find on the first page of Google won’t stop her.

I’m Jasmine Murphy. I’m 46, I spent two and a half decades behind a salon chair before starting Hair Musee in 2026, and this page exists so you know exactly who is talking to you when you read anything on this site.

The Short Version of a Long Career

I got licensed in 2001 and spent my first three years sweeping floors and shampooing at a salon in a strip mall, which taught me more about scalp health than any textbook did. By 2009 I had my own studio. Color correction became my specialty, mostly because it’s the work nobody else wanted. Clients came to me after box dye gone wrong, after bleach gone very wrong, after a stylist somewhere said “trust me” and shouldn’t have.

I still keep a spiral notebook of every color formula I’ve mixed since 2003. Twenty-three years of ratios, processing times, and notes in the margins like “her hair grabs warm, cut the gold.” That notebook is the backbone of half the color articles on this site.

A few other things about me, because a bio without a person in it is just a resume. I own 31 pairs of shears and use exactly three of them. My mannequin heads have names, and the one called Denise has been bleached and re-pigmented so many times she’s basically a science experiment. My daughter has 3C curls and I have fine, straight, color-treated hair, which means my own house covers two very different hair realities before I ever test on anyone else.

Why a Blog, and Why at 46

For years, clients sent me screenshots. Viral rice water routines. A TikTok claiming you can lighten hair with cinnamon. A “stylist-approved” trick that would absolutely destroy a keratin treatment. My job slowly became answering the same panicked texts on Sunday nights.

At some point I realized I was writing the same explanations over and over for an audience of one. Hair Musee is me writing them once, properly, for everyone. The site is new, the knowledge behind it is not.

What You’ll Actually Find Here

I don’t cover everything about hair. I cover the things I’ve done with my own hands enough times to speak plainly about.

Color, honestly explained. Toning, brass, grey coverage, and when a correction is a salon job no matter what the video says. This is my deepest well, and it shows.
Cuts and face shapes, minus the flattery. Not every trend suits every face, and I’ll tell you which ones ask more maintenance than the photo admits.
Curly and textured care. Written with my daughter’s routine as a live testing ground and checked against what actually works across curl patterns, not just one.
Product reviews I ran myself. If I haven’t put it on real hair, on a strand test, or on poor Denise, I don’t review it.
Salon versus home. The most useful thing I can tell you is often “don’t try this in your bathroom,” and I’ll say it when it’s true.

Who I’m Writing For

The person standing in the hair aisle at 9pm holding two boxes and a phone. The one who just got a cut she hates and wants to know how fast it can be fixed. The one growing out grey and getting opinions from everybody except a professional. If you’ve ever wished you could text a stylist who has seen it all and won’t upsell you, that’s the seat I’m trying to fill.

How Every Article Earns Its Place

This part matters to me more than anything else on this page. I’ve watched hair content get worse as it got faster, and I refuse to add to that pile.

Every article on Hair Musee is fact-checked before it publishes. As senior editor, I review each piece myself, and anything touching chemistry or scalp health gets a second pass against current professional guidance. Everything is edited for accuracy and clarity before it goes live, because a confusing instruction on a bleach article isn’t a small mistake. Older posts get revisited and updated as formulas, products, and techniques change, since hair advice from three years ago can quietly become bad advice. And when a link earns me a commission or a post is sponsored, it’s marked clearly, right where you can see it. You should never have to wonder whether I’m recommending something or selling it.

Before You Go

Read the article you came for. Do the strand test even though it’s boring. And if you’re holding a box of bleach right now, put it down and read my color correction piece first. Nineteen-year-old me wishes someone had said that to her.

You can reach me through the contact page, and I do read what comes in, usually with coffee, usually before the rest of the house is awake.

See you in the archives, Jasmine