How to Keep Your Hair Healthy - Comments

Thank you for sharing tips...Great Ideas!!

I use a hair mask at least once a week. It keeps my hair really shiny and healthy-looking. (:

I enjoyed your article, seeing a different point of view on hair care. I have incredibly long hair, to my tailbone, and looking after it is a major pain in the backside.

Recently(roughly the past six months), I was using Wen. DON'T DO IT! My hair was always quite thin, but Wen has stripped my hair of all it's natural oils and proteins and has caused serious hair loss. Stay away from any Wen product. I stopped using it about a month ago and the damage is taking forever to try and rectify. I'm only just starting to get the health back into it. Trial and error, but don't make my error.

In your article, you said stay away from shampoos with sulfates in them. Not all sulfate shampoos are bad. Our hair often needs a true clean. Dirts and oils all build up in our hair shafts and do all kinds of damage. You can't get rid of them with a "cleansing" shampoo. If you're not keen on using sulfates all the time, try once or twice a week. All these "natural" cleansers that have no sulfates in them build up on not only your hair, but your scalp and "drown" your hair follicles, causing weak roots and eventual "spot balding" or patching. One of the better shampoos I've found, and have been using to try and reverse the damage caused by Wen is L'oreal Paris Elvive Total Repair Five. The shampoo is really soft on your hair so it doesn't strip it like cheap shampoos and the treatments you can buy are really nice and leave your hair easy to manage.

Whatever you do, stay away from Wen, and stay away from "two in one" or "three in one" shampoos. If it looks like body wash, meaning clearish and thick, it's going to be terrible on your hair.

Just a quick one on combs, try to get a detangler comb, they're usually double prongs that curl in towards each other. And try to stay away from hard plastic combs as not only will they scratch your scalp, but they're very harsh on your hair. And don't comb your hair in the shower, ever. It breaks the strength in your hair and just rips the shafts apart.

@ Through-the-Night
I'll try that the next time I take a shower! Thanks for sharing c:!

What works really well for me is putting conditioner into my hair and tying it up in a bun. After a few minutes, I'll wash it out. It keeps my hair really soft and silky. And I honestly can't remember the last time I've found a split end. But I also don't use a blow dryer or straightener, so that probably helps a lot on the latter!

@ Queen Obscene
Shoot, that's quite true /).(\

Thanks for stating that even though I forgot ._.

Most of this is good - however you want to be careful about how long you leave oil treatments in and how much of the product you use.
Over doing it can quickly take your hair from lank to oily.

@ albluerose
You know what's funny? When I was younger, I had a lot of thick hair. This was when I was around...say 11 or 12ish. I used to thin my hair because I had this facade of wanting that scene/emo look and it left my hair so damaged that it took me up until last year (when I was sixteen) to finally rejuvenate itself.

What I recommend for you is possibly the oil treatment because it benefits for me. You can try it out and see what it's like. Also, my doctor told me that when you brush your hair (and shed naturally from that) it's a form of exercise for your roots that begin to strengthen it and make it more stronger instead of limp.

I have bad hair, my hair is always falling out. and extremely thin hair. it sucks.

@ nalina.
It's okay :)

@ M_Courtney_R
Ooh, I've never even heard of that. I'll check it out for sure ^.^ thanks!

Can I make a quick suggestion?
To everyone that do style their hair with straightners or curling tongs, there is a brand called Coolway that heats up to about half of what normal products do and is more effective.
Check it out here coolwayhair

@ a mimosa pudica


I'm so glad you benefited from this! Really appreciate your comment. Thanks so much c:!

I've been starting the oil treatments because my hair was so dry and all that other nonsense. I mysel had damaged it unknowingly but after a lot of talking with grandmother and aunts, I sort of learned ^.^ the way I see it, you'll have to go through some treatments before you find what suits you the best. I personally think starting from drying your hair is a good start.

I love your article. Not only did I learn on how to take care of my hair, I realized that the things I do to it makes it worse.

I always rub my hair with a towel when I'm finished washing. I'M NEVER GOING TO DO THAT ANYMORE. It's much easier if you just rub it so that it can dry up easily but I guess my hair is worth it. Oh, and I'm also planning on buying a comb soon when I go to the mall. I'm suddenly tired of brushes that always accumulate dirt afterwards. I also hate the static that you feels sometimes when you brush your hair. Not to mention all the hair that keeps on falling..

I don't do oil treatments. I learned from my grand-aunt that if you brush your hair like at least 100 times before going to bed, it makes your hair oily. Why? Because the oil glands that you have on your scalp, activate at night (or something like that) and it helps to comb because you get to have it reach the strands of your hair.

If you know more about hair, I highly recommend you to write another tutorial on how to choose a hairstyle that would fit different people with different facial features and figures. I think you'll do great!