| Our glorious hair. We sometime shave, curl, spike, | | | | to the letter. (That's one of the healthy hair tips to |
| dreadlock, blow dry, braid, and spray it within an inch | | | | remember.) |
| of it's life. We spend untold money on hair care | | | | It also helps to use gentle coloring products and |
| products. Not to mention the world is awash in so | | | | conditioners and shampoos specifically designed for |
| called healthy hair tips, myths and misconceptions. | | | | colored hair. In fact it's wise to use extra conditioner |
| Let's discuss a few of them. | | | | whenever you wash your colored hair. |
| Hair Misconception #1: A stress filled life leads directly | | | | Hair Misconception #5: Pull a gray hair and it will be |
| to subsequent hair loss. | | | | replaced by more than one. |
| Reality: It's a fact we are all losing hair daily. Whether | | | | Reality: Ever heard that? No way is that true. Still you |
| we are stressed to the max or not. On average you | | | | should never pull out hair by the roots. You can scar |
| lose anywhere between 35 to 135 hairs each day. So | | | | yourself or you might develop a scalp infection trying |
| maybe a few more strands might fall out if you're all | | | | that. It's better to banish the gray by coloring your |
| tense and stressed out. But unless you have been | | | | hair. |
| pulling your hair out by the roots, it will all grow back! | | | | Hair Misconception #6: All hair reacts to humidity in |
| Hair Misconception #2: Using several shampoos keeps | | | | the same way. |
| your hair healthy. | | | | If you have curly hair you don't need me to point |
| Reality: Of the so called healthy hair tips this one | | | | out that this is a big lie. Once the humidity hits it, |
| makes me laugh it's so far fetched. Hair doesn't | | | | uncontrollable curls or worse, the dreaded frizzys |
| remember what shampoo was used on it last. It's | | | | results. To strike back you need a product that will |
| basically just dead cells. So how's it gonna know what | | | | lock down the cuticle layer. One that blocks out |
| kind of shampoo you're using? But it is true that | | | | unwanted moisture. So look for styling products with |
| people with different hair types need to use | | | | words like anti-humectant, smoothing, anti-humidity |
| shampoos suited to their type of hair. Focus on that | | | | on the label. |
| rather than rotating shampoo. | | | | Hair Misconception #7: It's best to shampoo twice for |
| Hair Misconception #3: There's nothing you can do for | | | | clean hair. |
| fine hair to keep it from going limp. | | | | Reality: This is just not so. In fact over use of |
| Reality: Two words: Hot rollers. They make it easy to | | | | shampoos can damage your hair. Unless your hair is |
| add body to fine hair. Afterwards just apply mousse | | | | extremely oily shampooing once should suffice. |
| and brush out well. | | | | How about those seven healthy hair care tips? |
| Hair Misconception #4: Coloring is hard on your hair. | | | | How about if we continue our discussion of healthy |
| Reality: Nonsense! If that was the case most hair | | | | hair care tips with an overview about how to go |
| stylists would be out of a job. Coloring is safe if you | | | | about the task of repair of damaged hair. |
| know what you're doing and follow the instructions | | | | |