About us

Built by an African woman, for women everywhere

Most hair advice was written for hair that is not ours. OpenTips exists because knowing your porosity should not require trial, error and a shelf of products that did not work.

Our story

OpenTips began as a notebook — wash days, products, what helped and what broke. It turned out that the notebook was the valuable part: enough entries and the patterns are undeniable. The app is that notebook, with the analysis done for you.

What we hold to

Textured hair first

Not an afterthought bolted onto a general hair app.

Your data stays yours

Your Hair DNA is built and stored on your device. Location is rounded to ten miles before it is ever used.

Honest about what we know

Where the app is guessing, it says so. Where it has three data points, it does not pretend to have thirty.