What are good curl activating hair products?
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abby
my hair is really frizzy and its dead from straightening it, i need to start wearing it natural but i need to know good hair products to make my hair look better.
Answer
Frizz happens when dry hair collides with humidity. Those parched, porous strands suck up the excess moisture in the air. As the strands swell, the outer layer (aka cuticle) of your hair lifts. The result: The smooth tresses you left home with this morning are now a ruffled, haywire mess. "As a teenager my hair was pretty frizzy and more damaged," says Natalie Coughlin, a 11-time Olympic medalist for USA Swimming (3 Gold, 4 Silver, and 4 Bronze), who's one-quarter Filipino. She credits a healthful diet, good hair-care products and working with instead of against her hair type for her healthy mane. "It's important that hairstylists shape my layers so that when I do wear it wavy and play up my natural curls it looks good," Coughlin says, adding that leave-in conditioner makes her frizz more manageable.
"But as I've gotten older I've learned to really embrace my hair's natural waves and natural texture rather than constantly straightening it," she says. Use gel like Samy when your hair is damp, scrunch your hair and let air dry, or blow dry using a diffuser concentrating @ the roots. Finger comb, tousle or shake your hair and you're good to go. In the morning, instead of washing them again, spray with water & conditioner, scrunch with your fingers and you're done.
Heat & chemicals are hair's worst enemies. Natural hair means no relaxer, no chemical to straighten your hair out, no styling heating tools. The way it grows out your root, thatâs the way you rock it.
Always choose a shampoo that's tailored to your hair needs. For example, certain shampoos are created for fine, curly, color treated, or dandruff-prone hair.
Best advice from Hollywood's well known hairstylist in the 80's once said: "Keep foods in your mouth and hair products on your hair."
CARE: 1. Washing less often, builds the natural oil your hair needs, to get them smoother, shinier, silkier, softer. Man-made products are just temporary, until you wash them again, and at the same time washing off the natural oil your hair NEEDS. Hair products just absorb on your hair if they're dry, like a sponge. Shampoo & condition is all you need.
When you wash your hair with one of those nutrient-rich shampoos or conditioners, most of the nutrients and active ingredients in the product donât actually end up in your hair, they wind up down the drain⦠along with all the money you spent on the shampoo. It is HOW you use to style your hair or what styling tools that damage the hair, and what chemicals you're adding to the hair, not the shampoo or conditioner.
2. If you want your hair soft, you can briefly blow dry it, set them in curlers or pin curls them, blow dry, let them cool off, take the curlers &/or pins, finger tousle the hair or brush lightly to style. They will be silky, soft, smooth & shiny (for straight hair).
3. Cutting your split ends yourself, spend 5-10 mins. on a sunny day so you can easily spot them, using a 2" scissors, cut strand by strand, section by section, allowing new growth to take over. Then 2x a year, get a good hair cut. This won't speed things up, but it will make the hair look healthier while it's growing. Even healthy hair like mine get them, due to normal brushing & styling. but mostly from using stretchy chord for stressing the hair.
DIET: If you've straightened your hair in the past, it may grow slowly or none at all.
Google: "Foods for Healthy Hair" or http://gulfnews.com/life-style/beauty-fashion/beauty/best-foods-for-healthy-hair-1.1183522
Your hair may be the fastest-growing tissue in the body but, unlike the skin, it cannot repair itself. That is why getting the right balance of vitamins and proteins is imperative. Don't expect to look like you've stepped out of a hair commercial the day after you've changed your diet. It is likely to take at least three months before you actually see tangible results.
Growing healthy hair doesn't come from a bottle or pills and hair products do not speed hair growth. Any hair oil, is another form to keep hair moisturized, nothing more. If you're in HS, your hair & nails should be growing normally, and as healthily as possible, since you're eating healthy foods. But when hair isn't growing as fast, it's because they've been tampered with: chemicals, hair straightening, etc. . .
RE: HAIR OIL: "You find people oiling hair every single day, the hair sweats and it doesnât get washed. What do you think happens? It goes limp and becomes thin because it is not breathing,â Shamillah Mohammed, a hairstylist at SUQA, says.
Best answer comes from people with Avatars, showing their healthy, shiny, silky, soft, smooth hair.
Source(s):
5 decades of hair know-how, previously damaged by perming & dyeing in the 80's & 90's.
Frizz happens when dry hair collides with humidity. Those parched, porous strands suck up the excess moisture in the air. As the strands swell, the outer layer (aka cuticle) of your hair lifts. The result: The smooth tresses you left home with this morning are now a ruffled, haywire mess. "As a teenager my hair was pretty frizzy and more damaged," says Natalie Coughlin, a 11-time Olympic medalist for USA Swimming (3 Gold, 4 Silver, and 4 Bronze), who's one-quarter Filipino. She credits a healthful diet, good hair-care products and working with instead of against her hair type for her healthy mane. "It's important that hairstylists shape my layers so that when I do wear it wavy and play up my natural curls it looks good," Coughlin says, adding that leave-in conditioner makes her frizz more manageable.
"But as I've gotten older I've learned to really embrace my hair's natural waves and natural texture rather than constantly straightening it," she says. Use gel like Samy when your hair is damp, scrunch your hair and let air dry, or blow dry using a diffuser concentrating @ the roots. Finger comb, tousle or shake your hair and you're good to go. In the morning, instead of washing them again, spray with water & conditioner, scrunch with your fingers and you're done.
Heat & chemicals are hair's worst enemies. Natural hair means no relaxer, no chemical to straighten your hair out, no styling heating tools. The way it grows out your root, thatâs the way you rock it.
Always choose a shampoo that's tailored to your hair needs. For example, certain shampoos are created for fine, curly, color treated, or dandruff-prone hair.
Best advice from Hollywood's well known hairstylist in the 80's once said: "Keep foods in your mouth and hair products on your hair."
CARE: 1. Washing less often, builds the natural oil your hair needs, to get them smoother, shinier, silkier, softer. Man-made products are just temporary, until you wash them again, and at the same time washing off the natural oil your hair NEEDS. Hair products just absorb on your hair if they're dry, like a sponge. Shampoo & condition is all you need.
When you wash your hair with one of those nutrient-rich shampoos or conditioners, most of the nutrients and active ingredients in the product donât actually end up in your hair, they wind up down the drain⦠along with all the money you spent on the shampoo. It is HOW you use to style your hair or what styling tools that damage the hair, and what chemicals you're adding to the hair, not the shampoo or conditioner.
2. If you want your hair soft, you can briefly blow dry it, set them in curlers or pin curls them, blow dry, let them cool off, take the curlers &/or pins, finger tousle the hair or brush lightly to style. They will be silky, soft, smooth & shiny (for straight hair).
3. Cutting your split ends yourself, spend 5-10 mins. on a sunny day so you can easily spot them, using a 2" scissors, cut strand by strand, section by section, allowing new growth to take over. Then 2x a year, get a good hair cut. This won't speed things up, but it will make the hair look healthier while it's growing. Even healthy hair like mine get them, due to normal brushing & styling. but mostly from using stretchy chord for stressing the hair.
DIET: If you've straightened your hair in the past, it may grow slowly or none at all.
Google: "Foods for Healthy Hair" or http://gulfnews.com/life-style/beauty-fashion/beauty/best-foods-for-healthy-hair-1.1183522
Your hair may be the fastest-growing tissue in the body but, unlike the skin, it cannot repair itself. That is why getting the right balance of vitamins and proteins is imperative. Don't expect to look like you've stepped out of a hair commercial the day after you've changed your diet. It is likely to take at least three months before you actually see tangible results.
Growing healthy hair doesn't come from a bottle or pills and hair products do not speed hair growth. Any hair oil, is another form to keep hair moisturized, nothing more. If you're in HS, your hair & nails should be growing normally, and as healthily as possible, since you're eating healthy foods. But when hair isn't growing as fast, it's because they've been tampered with: chemicals, hair straightening, etc. . .
RE: HAIR OIL: "You find people oiling hair every single day, the hair sweats and it doesnât get washed. What do you think happens? It goes limp and becomes thin because it is not breathing,â Shamillah Mohammed, a hairstylist at SUQA, says.
Best answer comes from people with Avatars, showing their healthy, shiny, silky, soft, smooth hair.
Source(s):
5 decades of hair know-how, previously damaged by perming & dyeing in the 80's & 90's.
At what age did you start wearing makeup?
Chelsea
My ten year old sister wants to start wearing a bit of makeup, is this okay?
If so, what should she wear?
She's in fifth grade.
What age did you start wearing makeup?
Answer
Hey Chelsea,
I've started as early as 10, though i didn't know how to apply it correctly... and well, it looked pretty messy. So one day, i came downstairs after applying lip gloss and eyeliner about 1 centimeter below my eye (that's how i thought it was supposed to look) and my mum just started laughing. She told me that i looked like a pirate and told me to wipe it off, which i did. So, i stopped wearing makeup till i was about 13 years old. When it was my 13th birthday, i was full out barbie doll. Eyeliner, blue and pink eyeshadow, pink lipstick, mascara ... the works. And everyone said i looked so adorable, but i was still too young to be attractive. So, everyone called me "girly" you know .. and i didn't want to be labeled as materialistic or vain at my age. But makeup attracted me and i became dependent on it. Well, when i became 15, i thought ... "wow, look at all these beautiful celebrities that don't wear makeup." Such as Natalie Portman and so... And i just told myself to let go of wearing makeup because I was still young .. and I learned that life will become stressful as i go through college, so i decided it was best if i just stopped painting my face. It was a lot easier to enjoy being young than trying to act older than i was, because there is no going back to youth. I still plucked my eyebrows very mildly, painted my nails funky colors, took care of my skin by using moisturizers and cleansers, and styled my hair.
But to this day *which i am in my late teens*, i still don't care much for makeup. Of course, i do wear it for special occasions but to feel special, not to feel sexy.
And, at your sister's age ... a little lipglo
Hey Chelsea,
I've started as early as 10, though i didn't know how to apply it correctly... and well, it looked pretty messy. So one day, i came downstairs after applying lip gloss and eyeliner about 1 centimeter below my eye (that's how i thought it was supposed to look) and my mum just started laughing. She told me that i looked like a pirate and told me to wipe it off, which i did. So, i stopped wearing makeup till i was about 13 years old. When it was my 13th birthday, i was full out barbie doll. Eyeliner, blue and pink eyeshadow, pink lipstick, mascara ... the works. And everyone said i looked so adorable, but i was still too young to be attractive. So, everyone called me "girly" you know .. and i didn't want to be labeled as materialistic or vain at my age. But makeup attracted me and i became dependent on it. Well, when i became 15, i thought ... "wow, look at all these beautiful celebrities that don't wear makeup." Such as Natalie Portman and so... And i just told myself to let go of wearing makeup because I was still young .. and I learned that life will become stressful as i go through college, so i decided it was best if i just stopped painting my face. It was a lot easier to enjoy being young than trying to act older than i was, because there is no going back to youth. I still plucked my eyebrows very mildly, painted my nails funky colors, took care of my skin by using moisturizers and cleansers, and styled my hair.
But to this day *which i am in my late teens*, i still don't care much for makeup. Of course, i do wear it for special occasions but to feel special, not to feel sexy.
And, at your sister's age ... a little lipglo
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