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How do keep your long hair looking good?
Mine is long with lots of layers and I've noticed that the ends are starting to look bad. They look unhealty and I kep finding split ends. I don't like the way it looks unless I use a flat iron and make it smooth. But using a flat iron obviously makes the problem worse. I try not to use a lot of heat on it, I use a detangler so that I dont break it while combing, and do use a deep conditioner (although I don't think it does much). I also do get it trimmed often .So what do you do to keep your hair healthy and looking great? Thanks
Re: How do keep your long hair looking good?
Do you use shampoo/conditioner for long hair?
Also look into your hairbrush and see if it's too harsh for your hair.
Something else I read is that pre-natal vitamins are meant to be great for healthy hair!
I give it a break from washing/styling whenever I can(though my hair gets pretty oily after day two).
I let it air dry whenever possible. I only brush it when its dry, usually right before my shower.
I rinse with cool water just before getting out of the shower(since I normally take hot showers). I'm not sure if this would work for everyone, but I have certainly noticed a difference in the feel of my skin and hair when I do this.
Hope that helps.
Same, although I can go 2 - 3 days without washing. Limiting blow drying helps a lot. I also use a spray-on heat protectant before flat ironing or curling.
I only wash my hair twice a week (sometimes three times).
Try washing every other day. Do that for six months and see if you can stretch it out to every third day (wear your hair back on that third day if you feel smelly or greasy).
After a few years of this, my long hair is very healthy. Limiting the blow drying and heat styling is important. I too do the quick cold rinse at the end of rinsing out my conditioner.
Occasionally I use Fekkai's deep conditioning masque.
Anything you can achieve through hard work, you could also just buy.
Sometimes I rub warmed jojoba oil on the ends (just a little bit) and comb it through. I let it sink in a while before washing and conditioning normally. Also, I only wash 2-3x per week and I double condition (apply conditioner to dry hair and let it sink in. Shampoo. Condition again). Anything applied to dry hair will penetrate better. When applying conditioner to wet hair, I very gently squeeze as much water as I can out of the hair first.
The best advice is to treat it gently. Someone told me to treat it like a very expensive silk scarf, and not to tear a brush through it roughly.
as glittergal said, be gentle.
my hair is hitting my boobs now. I've been growing it out from a chin-length bob for almost 2 years now, so preventing split/dry ends has been key for me.
moisture moisture moisture! I use moisturizing formulas for my shampoo and conditioner, and spray my hair all over with It's A 10 leave-in spray before blow-drying and straightening.
give your hair breaks too. don't wash your hair so much, don't use heat every day. my schedule is usually this:
day 1: shampoo, conditioner. blow out and straighten hair.
day2: leave it alone. add dry shampoo to roots.
day 3: leave it alone if I can. more dry shampoo to roots. ponytail day. if it is too oily even for that, then I will cowash using conditioner only, then let it airdry. it's wavy.
day 4: cowash with conditioner only. airdry. leave it wavy.
day 5: start the cycle over.
I basically try to avoid getting my hair wet at all, but if I have to get it wet, then I avoid shampoo and heat styling. I try to only blow dry once or twice a week.
I go for trims only every 10-12 weeks, and my stylist rarely finds split ends. she only takes off about 1/4-1/2" each time.
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All of this and I also use Macadamia oil after I wash it.
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What dryer did she suggest? And which one did you have before? Ours is just a cheap drugstore dryer but I want to invest in a good one.
I had an ionic Conair with tourmaline, which I thought was fine and I'd used Conairs for years, but now that I've replaced it I can tell a difference. The new dryer is a SuperSolano, and I did the $40 trade-in credit thing. My stylist recommended a BaByliss but another Nestie (warontv) said they use Solano at her blowdry salon and they're awesome.
Comparing my Conair to the Solano is like comparing a flamethrower to a wind tunnel. The Conair got plenty hot, but just didn't blow very hard, and it was actually cooking my hair. The Solano doesn't get quite as hot, but blows HARD - which I think is actually better b/c I'm not nervous about burning my scalp with it. The Solano dries faster as well, and it's not ionic. The Conair was ionic too, which I thought was better than non-ionic b/c it's supposed to cut down on static and encourage faster drying, but I've noticed that my hair is bouncier and has more volume with the new dryer. I haven't noticed an increase in static either.