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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

#1 What's The Best Way To Grow Out My Hair?

There are several things that will help your hair grow out the most healthy and the fastest.

1. GET IT CUT! Who would have thought that getting your hair cut is probably the #1 way to keep your locks growing long? It's true! I'm sure you have heard your hairdresser say that trimming makes your hair grow faster and look less stringy at the bottom, this isn't completely true. As the hair gets longer the ends get older, more damage, and well picked on more. The hair actually starts to break off because of split ends due to all damage from life. When you trim off the ends every 6-8 weeks it stops the split ends from going up and eventually breaking off, making it seem like your hair is growing faster. If you have layers ask your hairdresser to "tip" them to keep them heathy as they are growing.

2. HEAT PROTECTANT! If you use ANY type of heat on your hair, blow dryer, straightner, curling iron, hot rollers, or anything else that is well... hot, you need to be using a heat protectant. It seals the Cuticule (the outer layer of hair that looks like shingles on a roof) down so that all the moisture and protine says in the hair. Without it the cuticle is blown open and moisture especially is dried out. Any PROFESHONAL product (anything sold in a salon) is water soluble. This means that you will have no product build up on the hair shaft because as soon as it hits water it runs right off, allowing any treatments or color to penitrate, styles to last longer, and guess what?!?! It helps your hair not break off and get frizzy at the ends! Thus helping keep the length you have grown.
A few of my favorite products that work on almost any hair are Satinwear by Redkin and Super Skinny Serum by Paul Mitchell. Satinwear is reviewed as a 5 star product. It contains UV filters to protect color from fading, along with anti-oxidents to keep the good in and the bad out! This is my #1 choice for anyone who colors their hair. For anyone who doesn't color their hair or feels like you need a little more smoothing action Super Skinny Serum is the thing for you. This is reviewed 4 1/2 Star product even cuts down on blow drying time! It does this by penitrating deep into the hair shaft, removing water molicules (different from moisture) and constricting the hair to keep it out. Great for places with humidity :) Then it shines and protects the hair with a light weight silicone. Leaving the hair shiny and soft. :)

3. NIOXIN! This is a line that was first designed for chemo paitens that lost their hair. It helps with the recovory process. It since has been re-formulated to help with hair growth and keeping hair heathy. For people struggling with baulding, stress or pregnacy hair loss, unexplained hair loss, scalp disorders, itchy scalp, or just trying to keep hair and scalp heathy and growing.
It does this by deep cleaning the scalp and opening the hair foliculs. Breaking down sebum, product build up, and any other nasty stuff on the head and hair (trust me there are a lot!). Odd fact, if you have a bauld cadaver and you peal back the scalp there will be a web of hair that has grown! The hair lost it's exit point through the nasty folicules. So by keeping the scalp clean you're hair grows faster and stronger! Makes since right?!
They have a 3 step system, but you only need to use the Cleanser and Scalp Thearapy if you're trying to grow :) Add the 3rd step if you are worried about hair loss. I put my dad on the full system about 8 months ago... the results have been amazing! My Mom is enjoying it too ;)

So there you go! Try it out and let me know! These 3 steps will be the most simple and heplfull things in growing hair :)

1 comment:

  1. I think I need to get some Nioxin... Thank you for this advice though. You know I am trying to grow my hair out and it is a slow process. However, I'll just keep coming to you for haircuts. I don't really use much heat on my hair, so that helps it out. :) You're amazing!!

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