“I bought this on Alibaba,” Temi Hollist, director of strategic partnerships at the Guardian, says while holding up a lock of her long, smooth, raven-black hair. Alibaba, which had its record-breaking IPO on Friday, accounted for 80% of China’s e-commerce...

The blowzy bun has consistently been your go-to if hair is searching a little unruly, or maybe the gym ponytail is your abstraction of an updo. We get it: You’ve yet to add “hair whiz” to your resume. Even so, you shouldn’t accept to resort to “been there,...