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Hair Do’s and Dont’s

March 2nd, 2010

My Health

Hair coloring is an excellent and almost safest way to change your manifestance and therefore to change the other persons attitude. Temporary colorants can give your hair new look and color but not for a long time. It is made by putting a thin or slim layer of a colorant on your hair. The effect of such action is not very harmful. The better result you can achieve when the hair is light colored. Most vivid are temporary colorants of red and blue color spectrum. Lightening means are used for slight (3-5 levels and more) dark hair discoloring before using the lightest colorants. They really ruin your natural hair structure. After the use you should wash your head with special emollient shampoos and balms or some kind of intensive hair cure means.

When using temporary and semi-permanent colorants you do not start from your roots but place it all over your head at a time. After that the hair must be kept warm and covered with some kind of polyethylene cap. If the coloration process is serious and you have used permanent colorants you ought to proceed with balms and rinses. If your skin is covered with freckles you should not experiment with deep blonde or brunette colors. It gives the best fit only to young girls with clean skin. It is very important to keep the right combination of the skin shade, eye and hair color. If the skin has color of a peach the cold shades make your skin look pale. The shades honey blonde, deep chocolate,ginger, rusted deep-brown are the ones you should try.

When the summer weather protect your hair sun and water damage. To maintain healthy locks, it’s essential to develop a daily hair-care routine. The best way to protect your mane from this type of harm is to simply keep it out of the water by wearing a swimming cap or keeping it up in a ponytail. Cut down on the use of the blow dryer. Leave hair damp and allow it to air-dry on the way to work, or opt for an updo to keep cool in the summer heat. Skip the flat or curling iron altogether whenever possible. Always apply conditioner on your hair after a wash, but try to avoid applying it to the root or shaft as it will weigh hair down and make it dirty. Taking advantage of vacation time, or time spent hanging out by the pool to use a leave-in conditioner.

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Naturally curly hair do’s and don’ts

February 9th, 2010

My Health

Products that should and should not be used on naturally curly hair.

If you have naturally curly hair, and you are trying to grow it, if you haven’t been very successful, chances are, you have been told you can’t use chemicals. This is completely untrue. Hair will grow with chemicals, the secret lies in the application, chemicals must be applied to the new growth only. We will discuss this in a later paragraph.

If you are going to wear your hair natural, there are things you should not do.

1: You never brush natural hair: Because the hair has a curl and because of this curl the cuticle is facing different directions, when the brush is pulled against the grain of the cuticle, it causes the cuticle to split, if this split goes from the ends to the scalp, you will have hair breakage.

2: You must never oil your scalp: When oil is applied to the scalp, It clogs the hair follicle, and eventuall leads to hair loss. The oil you apply, plus the oil that is produced naturally, will clog the hair follicle, and a bacterial infection occurs. The follicle will eventually drop the hair, resulting in a bald spot.

3: Hair pressing is fine for natural hair, however, you must follow some rules, use a protective oil, and always use a comb heated on a stove. Electric irons have a tendency to melt the cuticle. If you are going to do it yourself, please know how to test the temperature of the comb, and the proper technique to use.

4: Do follow a regular routine of conditioning your hair, don’t over process with conditioners, and don’t use leave-in conditioners.

Hair Relaxers

If you are going to wear a relaxer on your hair, you should have it done by a professional, but choose very carefully. If you notice your hairdresser applying the product to the entire head, and you have always worn a relaxer, drop them, because this is one of the major causes of hair loss in people that wear relaxers.

Hair is made of protein, and it is acid. relaxers are alkaline, relaxers neutralize the protein in the hair. If the relaxer is applied to the entire head each time, it will become dry and fly-away, and eventually break. Neutralizing shampoo should not be used for weekly shampoos, because the acid content is too high, and this will cause breakage also.

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