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Giving Your Hair Some Lurve

by — Last updated: 2015-09-28 in Beauty Care

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If your hair is currently rocking a gorgeous shade of platinum, bright blond, gray or pastel, chances are, it's a little bit — or a lot — dry, wispy, split ends, impossible to style, impossible to manage. But there is a way back. Take my hand!
It's really important not to just slap the product on your hair and roughly wash it out and roughly brush your hair and roughly blow dry it. Use nice products, use them as often as you think your hair needs them, and always, always, be gentle. Here's an example of a haircare regimen that you might like to try to improve dryness, stretchiness and damage.
 
  • Wash hair with shampoo, when you've moved back to shampoo — choose a repair and protect formula
  • Use a nourishing conditioner — repair and protect again and/or argan or Morroccon oil
  • Use a hair mask. As above. Leave on for as long as you like. I like to leave hair masks on for up to an hour or even longer, if I'm honest — you can wrap your head in a towel and if you're able to, sleep with your hair mask on. 
  • I also use leave in hair conditioner. Spray it into your hair whilst wet. Look for a color protecting variety.
  • Whilst your hair is still a little bit wet, work a few drops of the best quality argan oil Or serum that you can afford through the mid lengths and tips of your hair. Don't put it anywhere near your roots. Yes, we want moisture, but we don't want that much moisture anywhere near your scalp as you'll never be able to wash it out. Once your hair is dry, work a few drops of the oil into the tips of your hair for extra nourishment.
  • Anytime you style your hair, use oil for hold. Only a little.
  • Anytime you use heat, (top tip, don't use heat), use all of the heat protect products, be it a wash-in mousse, a conditioner, a serum, a heat defence spray - whatever it is, use it. Protect your hair. If you must have straight or curly hair then you must protect it, or you'll be right back where you started.

Protein Perfect

Your hair needs moisture, but it also needs protein - that's what keeps it strong. So after a week or so of washing with conditioner, when you reintroduce shampoo, make it a shampoo that includes keratin, to help re-build the protein bonds in your hair. Use this every other wash until your hair starts to feel strong again, then discard it in favour of your moisture shampoos and conditioners - using too much keratin can make your hair become brittle, which gives you yet another problem to fix.

Hairbands And Hot Showers

It might sound dumb, but using the wrong kind of hairband can increase the number of breakages you get — just an elastic band around your hair shaft all the way around your hair could split all of the hairs around the ponytail right through the middle of the hair shaft. Use soft hair ties, preferably that double as hair bands, as they will be softer and easier on your hair. There are also ties that are designed specifically not to leave lines on your hair, so you can use them and then take your hair down without ruining your style. As for the temperature of your shower: too cold, too hot: not great; lukewarm is perfect.
Follow these tips and your hair will soon become soft, silky and manageable again. Don't follow them? Well. You might just have to get a pixie cut. Which might not be the worst thing to happen... hmm...