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Hair Tips

Hair Care Advice and Tips For Healthy Hair
Common sense approach for Healthier Hair

The following recommendations for hair products and companies are made strictly from personal experience without financial gain.

Do visit us again as new Hair Care Advice and Hair Care Tips are added often.

Feel free to ask any questions you may have about hair, hair care and hair products it does not matter how silly you think your question is, if you not ask you simply won't know. You will find my email below.

The question and answers are not in any order.

Q. Should I Use A Treatment On My Hair And How Often

A. Yes, give your hair a treatment regularly that could be weekly, fortnightly or monthly the answer here is just do it!

There are heaps of different types of treatments that one can use most are glorified conditioner if that.

You can use hot oil, protein and moisture hair and scalp treatments.

Sebastian Products (only available from salons that stock it) make two great treatments potion 9 and potion 7 one is leave in the other is rinse out one is just moisture based the other has protein mix in two it.

A bit on the price side although if used in small amounts it does go a long way. Also excellent shampoos and conditioners in the laminates range, great for coloured, thick, curly and dry hair.

Also excellent is Bonawell treatment from Schwarzkopf (available from salons that stock Schwarzkopf).

Shampoo your hair (one good wash if you have just wash your hair a day ago if 2 or 3 days ago do 2 good shampoos no conditioner wrap (don't rub) with towel remove exists water.

Bonawell comes in a yellow tube, squeeze about a 50 cent coin worth (longer hair twice as much) into a blow you will need a tint brush firstly just mix it on it own so to break it down a bit, then mix in, 60 ml or cc at a time of boiling hot water, mix till thick let stand if you need to.

Apply Bonawell treatment onto scalp and hair shaft and work through and along hair shaft, warp with glad wrap for 1 or more hours.

Then to remove by adding water and emulsifier right through, comb through with wide tooth comb then add more water and emulsifier until your hair feels clean of cream, rinse well then wrap with a towel and dry as required.

Q. How Often Should I or When Should I Shampoo and Condition My Hair?

A.Want your hair to look its best, Shampoo and Condition your hair daily, morning is best. Some people can get away with Shampoo and Condition every other day.

Q. Which is the best Shampoo and Condition for my hair?

A. Best! I really do not believe there is such a product out there, you see what may be good today may change tomorrow companies are constantly trying to find alterative ways to reduce cost and improve profit.

I'd also be telling stories if I said take home hair care product from the hair salon are the only ones to use and are the best. Yes most hair salon take home products are very good to excellent and some are not as good as the super market ones.

It is simply trial and error; a few good rules to keep in mind, if hair is coloured use a shampoo and conditioner for coloured hair it has a more gently effect on your hair, also even if you do not have coloured hair but have medium to tick hair or your scalp does not get oily quickly and you are sporty, work in a dusty environment and need to wash your hair daily I would recommended a shampoo and conditioner for coloured hair.

If your hair is fine and gets oils quickly use a shampoo and conditioner for fine hair, you will find that the conditioner is a rinse rather than a balsam.

If you find that after using a new shampoo a few times and your scalp is getting flaky, simply stop using that shampoo and try a different brand,

Q. How Often, When, Why And What Type Of Brushes Do I Use?

A. Brush your hair daily, evening is best, brushing stimulates the scalp brings out your natural oils the brushing also spreads the natural oils through your hair and works like a conditioning treatment, use a soft bristle brush made of pig or horse hair.

Q. Should I brush my hair when it is wet?

A. Well, NO, but at some stage you are going to blow dry your hair so you are going to use a brush, the rule here is hair is in it's weakest state when wet, as long as you have applied some sort of serum to your hair and combed it through starting at the bottom working up and gently.

Q. After Washing My Hair Should I Rub or Wrap My Hair With A Towel?

A. Wrapping your will remove all exists water with out the harsh rubbing which causes fiction and breakage, also stimulates your scalp and if you have fine hair it will bring out the oils and make your hair look and feel oily.

Q. What Type Of Pillowcase Is Best For Your Hair And Skin?

A. Silk is the best pillowcase for your hair and skin to sleep on, simple allows your hair to travel on it try and does not make your hair look matted, (bed hair) looks like you haven't slept on it. Also great for your skin doesn't pull and stretch on it.

Q. Can I Use Plastic Brushes?

A. Firstly be cautious of what you use on your hair. Brushing your with a plastic brush with broken bristles can damage the hair and create breakage. Especially Plastic Brushes with little round rubber balls on the ends, when the rubber balls fall off and leaves the plastic bristles exposed it will tear though your hair.

You will end up with small split ends in the middle of you hair that stick up and out of place. If using plastic brushes keep your brushes clean and when the bristles are broken, or the rubber balls fall of, it's time for a new brush.

Q. Can I Use Rubber Bands?

A. Make sure when you are using elastics to tie your hair back you are using cloth covered elastics or hat elastics.

Rubber bands will tear at your hair and destroy the hair shaft, leaving breakage and split ends. Watch out for the elastics with the metal clip or section. And metal clips the ones that click down on to the hair. It will catch in your hair and cause damage. The best elastics are the scrunch type ones which have cloth covering them completely.

Q. How Can I Control Static Electricity In My Hair?

A. If your hair is looking like a science project and sticking to everything try spraying hairspray on a brush and running it through your hair. It will tame even the wildest of static. You can even use a bit of hair moisturiser or apply some serum through your hair.

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