“I wish I had shiny and silky hair like Jennifer Aniston." -- How many times have you thought about this, too? It has become almost impossible for me to go past a salon or a shop without taking a glance at the hair care products and procedures available in these places.
I’ve read hundreds of pages and scanned tons of literature concerning hair care to discover some secret ways to fix poor health of my hair. But it all turned out to be much easier than I thought.
Of course, there are many sources of hair damage, but as I’ve finally discovered - the main damage to my hair I caused myself. To my great relief most of it I was able to eliminate without cutting my hair off.
So, now I want to share with you the list of the most popular causes of the hair damage, and the ways to fix them to have a hair style you really want: straight, shiny, and healthy just like Jennifer Aniston has!
Cause 1 : Constant Change of Shampoo Without realizing it, I caused serious damage to my hair by changing shampoos every time I read about new product. I thought that it would help my hair become healthier.
As I discovered later, constant change of shampoos causes serious shock to our hair. Far from revitalizing it, I made my hair exhausted by stress!
After realizing what damage I caused to my hair, I took my favorite ARTec shampoo and stuck to it. The results were really great. My hair became smoother, shinier, and healthier.
Cause 2 : Use of Conditioner When I first found out about conditioner I thought that I need not use it. Why? I plaited my long hair then, so there was no problem with styling. But when I’ve made a haircut, I learned everything about frizz and tangles.
Mechanical damage from tangles, frizzes, and constant brushing leads to breakage of hair. Conditioner helps to smooth the hair cuticle and close hair scales, which prevents loosing moisture and hair becoming brittle.
So, I’ve started using conditioner every time I washed my hair. In a fraction of time tangles and frizzes vanished and never came back!
Cause 3 : Heat Application and Blow Drying Whenever you apply heat, you risk to over dry hair. I used to blow dry my hair with the hottest set, because I wanted to save my time. As a result, my hair became brittle and porous.
After studying the problem, my stylist advised me to use leave-in products, as they help to overcome the problem of hair losing moisture.
I also started to use ceramic flat iron instead of old fashioned iron straightener. Together with the leave-in products it helped to moisturize my hair leaving it silky and smooth, with all hair scales tightly closed, keeping precious moisture inside.
Cause 4 : Using Chemicals I used to do coloring often as I usually couldn’t decide what hair color I wanted. Once or twice I’ve done a relaxing to make my hair straighter, so that I could have the pin straight hair style I like.
But the results of such experiments turned out rather nasty and unhealthy to my hair. It became more coarse and brittle. The dyes turned out not the color painted on the box, but rather funny, like black instead of brown, or light chocolate instead of dark blond.
So, when I visited the stylist, I was told to stop applying any chemicals, including dyes, to my hair until I see that it becomes healthier and more alive.
I made a trim, bought another bottle of leave-in to improve the state of hair roots, and in half a year my hair has grown healthier than it was before I started to fix God’s point of view on my ideal hair color.
All in all, hair damage is usually caused not by environmental or natural reasons, but because we want to change the texture, type, or color of our hair without considering all pluses and minuses of such changes. Moreover, we often prefer to tell the stylist what to do, and not to listen to his/her advice as to what will best suit our hair health.
From my own experience I can tell that after I’ve started to:
- use one shampoo without changing it often
- use hair conditioner to eliminate tangles and frizz
- apply only the coolest shot when blow drying
- apply only ceramic flat iron that moisturizes my hair
- never use chemicals to my hair, except the vital hair coloring once a month,
I’ve learned what healthy hair really is and how it flows down in smooth, shiny locks. It has finally given me the look I’ve always wanted to have, the one of my favorite Jennifer Aniston hair styles!
Mary Anne Lionel is the hair care consultant of
http://SeduHairStyles101.com who helps people with hair problems to discover new ways of revealing their hair health. Visit Mary Anne’s web log at
http://blog.seduhairstyles101.com
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