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A great hair care regimen will include the following: a high quality shampoo, preferably an all natural one, a high quality conditioner, natural hair oils for a healthy scalp, and an all natural daily moisturizing lotion, cream, or serum. For added perks, a hair healthy hair care routine will also include a monthly hot oil treatment and protein treatments. Yet, many individuals don’t employ such hair care regimens. In fact, African Americans often only shampoo their hair once or twice a month and left the rest of their hair care maintenance to the application of petroleum based hair “greases” and mineral oil based hair lotions. Likewise, those with European hair apply chemical laden mousses and gel daily to their hair; or, like me, are addicted to their CHI straightened only to be left with brittle hair and ends. Unfortunately, bi-weekly washes with poor shampoos and the application of traditional black hair moisturizers that are mineral oil or petroleum based will only lead to hair breakage, splitting, and thinning for African American hair. And, the continual highlights, mousse, and shaping gels, although great for a moment, will only wreak havoc on all hair types.

Step One

Growth Golden Rule #1: Keep Your Hair Moisturized. Hair needs moisture and deep conditioning, especially when the hair is exposed to chemical coloring, relaxers, stressful styles, and heat appliances, like blow dryers and flat irons. You must deep condition your hair, at least once per week for it to thrive. A conditioner is nothing more than a cream that is applied to the hair to smooth the cuticle, soften the hair, add sheen, and restore moisture. Although conditioning your hair cannot make it grow—it can reduce shedding and breakage. As a result, your hair will actually become longer. Yes, I know we hate moisturizing our hair sometimes. I had a beautiful razor cut that I paid upwards $125 for and I hated applying any a little serum to my hair because I wanted to avoid the greasy look by the end of the day. My hair is fine, strawberry blond and auburn, and can absorb moisture quickly. But, all moisture does not equal grease, nor does all oils. I have learned that many oils like Coconut, Babassu, Avocado, and even Sunflower, are great for many hair types and don’t add a sticky greasy feel like many products with silicones or petrochemicals that are derived from petroleum. Plus, oils and even juices have the ability of giving moisture and helping hair health. Yummy and healthy, you have got to love it! Some great natural products I highly recommend are Beauty 4 Ashes’ Keraquench Leave In Conditioning Spray for N Class Hair, Ojon Revitalizing Mist, and Beauty 4 Ashes La Java Ultra Shine & Detangle Mist. Beauty 4 Ashes products can be found online at discoverb4acom for the States and mybeauty4ashescom. Ojon can be found at Sephora. If you prefer natural, as I do, choose Beauty 4 Ashes products. Ojon does contains silicones and chemicals like Cyclopentasiloxane, Laureth-4 and Dimethicone, but this formula is not as sticky.

Step Two

Growth Golden Rule #2: Find the Right Conditioner
Instant or Leave In Conditioners are great for all hair types because they coat and give the hair body and shine rapidly. However, they often contain silicones, which make the hair look shiny, but also seal the cuticles and coat the strand so much that additional moisture is unable to penetrate the hair strand. That’s why I recommend that you use hair lotion or leave in conditioners. Try to choose an all natural hair lotion that has EFAs and natural oils.

Step Three

Growth Golden Rule #3: Deep Condition Your Hair.

Use a Deep Penetrating Conditioner at least once a month. These are conditioners that are absorbed into the hair shaft to improve the health and appearance. Usually made from keratin and amino acids. I practically love Beauty 4 Ashes La Java Frappucino Damage Freeze Mask. I pair it with Myrrhea Anti-Frizz Silkening Fluid and my hair has never been shininer. The La Java Frappucino Mask contains coffee butter, great for maintaining hair color, as well as contains amino acids and essential fatty acids, two necessary components for healthy, longer hair. It also has palm, jojoba, coconut, olive, shea, and a host of other hair shaft penetrating moisture rich oils, which contain protein and vitamins to reduce breakage and splitting, without leaving it greasy. You can find these products at discoverb4a.com, sephoracom, myb4acom or mybeauty4ashes.com. Make sure your thoroughly rinse your hair after using a deep penetrating conditioner.

Step Four

Growth Golden Rule #4: Pay close attention to the ends of your hair. When conditioning your hair, or even applying protein treatments or hair lotion, make sure you target those hair ends.

Overall Tips & Warnings

Remember that to grow long and healthy hair, you have to condition it. Do not neglect this. Hair that is not conditioned often is dull, brittle, and damaged. Do not purchase cheap products with hair stripping ingredients, such as sulfates, alcohols, glycols, and silicones (any ingredient ending in the word “cone”). The best conditioning products on the market are Ojon, Oscar Blandi, Beauty 4 Ashes ®, and Aubrey Organics. Preferably, use Beauty 4 Ashes or Aubrey Organics, as they are all natural

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Hair coloring is an excellent and almost safest way to change your manifestance and therefore to change the other persons attitude. Temporary colorants can give your hair new look and color but not for a long time. It is made by putting a thin or slim layer of a colorant on your hair. The effect of such action is not very harmful. The better result you can achieve when the hair is light colored. Most vivid are temporary colorants of red and blue color spectrum. Lightening means are used for slight (3-5 levels and more) dark hair discoloring before using the lightest colorants. They really ruin your natural hair structure. After the use you should wash your head with special emollient shampoos and balms or some kind of intensive hair cure means.

When using temporary and semi-permanent colorants you do not start from your roots but place it all over your head at a time. After that the hair must be kept warm and covered with some kind of polyethylene cap. If the coloration process is serious and you have used permanent colorants you ought to proceed with balms and rinses. If your skin is covered with freckles you should not experiment with deep blonde or brunette colors. It gives the best fit only to young girls with clean skin. It is very important to keep the right combination of the skin shade, eye and hair color. If the skin has color of a peach the cold shades make your skin look pale. The shades honey blonde, deep chocolate,ginger, rusted deep-brown are the ones you should try.

When the summer weather protect your hair sun and water damage. To maintain healthy locks, it’s essential to develop a daily hair-care routine. The best way to protect your mane from this type of harm is to simply keep it out of the water by wearing a swimming cap or keeping it up in a ponytail. Cut down on the use of the blow dryer. Leave hair damp and allow it to air-dry on the way to work, or opt for an updo to keep cool in the summer heat. Skip the flat or curling iron altogether whenever possible. Always apply conditioner on your hair after a wash, but try to avoid applying it to the root or shaft as it will weigh hair down and make it dirty. Taking advantage of vacation time, or time spent hanging out by the pool to use a leave-in conditioner.

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Hair Bleach is a preparation which lightens the hair by removing the pigmentation. The bleach reacts with the melanin in hair, removing the color in an irreversible chemical reaction. The bleaching chemicals break down the melanin and replaces it with the new color represented by the accompanying tinting agent. Depending on how dark your hair is naturally, your underlying pigment could range from rusty orange to pale yellow. Strongly bleached hair looks yellowish, because keratin itself is naturally pale yellow. This natural color is the reason why an elderly person’s white hair looks slightly yellow at the roots. Hydrogen peroxide is one of the most common lightening agents. The peroxide is used in an alkaline solution, which opens the hair shaft to allow the peroxide to react with the melanin. Tints are added to bleaching solutions to achieve a more pleasing shade to the lightened hair.

Before you start you will need:

A clean towel (one that you don’t care if it gets bleach on it),

a plastic or glass bowl,

scissors

a stop-watch or timer.

You will also want to wear a shirt that you don’t mind if it gets bleach on it.

Last but not least, of course you’ll need your Hot Topic Bleach Kit.

Typically, a box bleach costs around $10. you might need more than one kit though.

There are certain physical consequences to bleaching your hair, foremost of which is severe cortical damage. Breakage, split ends, and frizziness await you and will require constant corrective attention. Also, your hair will lose its ability to hold pigment. Whether you want to add lowlights or try another color entirely, you will enjoy only temporary success. The color will come out over a couple of washings. You will have to wait for your hair to grow back out, in the meantime suffering the embarassment of the reverse-skunk look. Not very appealing.

If you’ve dyed your hair before, you don’t have to test it. It will turn blonde if you have dark hair, but it’ll take a while, and you should leave it on for about an hour if you want it to lighten significantly. (To get my black hair to blonde, it took me two hours, but you should never leave bleach on for more than an hour. Wash it out, and do it again if it’s not light enough.) You just put it on like dye and wait a while. And your hair will get lighter. You may need a toner because it will most likely turn orange (or greenish, depending on yor undertones), so you shoul get some sort of toner or dye to cover it, other than that, you’ll be fine.

Close your bleach powder up tight for storage. Air causes the powder to oxidate and lose its effectiveness. Double protection inside a plastic bag, then inside a plastic tub is a good idea to keep it fresh and ready for action.