Tips To Repair Split Ends. Split ends means your hair is not getting enough nourishment and lacks moisture. Harsh shampoos, sun exposure , blow drying, straightening, dyes and bleaches dry out the hair and damages the amino acids in your hair. Dry and damaged hair breaks easily while styling or brushing. If you think your hair is not growing fast then split ends could be the possible reason. Here are some easy tips to cure split ends: Alcohol Free Shampoo : Avoid using shampoos that contain alcohol as it dries out hair. Let It Dry Naturally : Avoid heat as much as possible. Get a Trim: The best solution for split ends is to get a trim.
Treatments: There are many treatments available which repair hair damage and provide moisture and nourishment. There are many easy homemade treatments that you can do to repair split ends. Here are some easy homemade treatments for split ends : Egg Mask : Mix egg yolk in 3 tbsp olive oil and 1 tbsp honey. Oil : Message your scalp with oil. Papaya Mask : Honey rinse : You might also like: Leave-in Hair Growth Treatment. Since donating my hair, I've had an obsession with attempting to grow my hair the longest I can in the fastest way. In a previous post, I made a wash-out oil treatment. This treatment has a lot of the same ingredients, but it's a daily leave-in spray. Let's get to it! So obviously I didn't make enough to fill this spray bottle, but in my defense, I was going to use a smaller bottle. Here's what you'll need and an estimation of how much of each I used: 2 bags - Camomile tea (make sure it's 100% camomile) or Peppermint tea 1/2 tbs - Dry Rosemary leaves 5 tsp - Lemon juice (from the bottle or the real thing) I added this to lighten my hair - you may skip it if you wish. 1 cup - water (Just a side note, chamomile will lighten hair - especially if exposed to heat or sun.)
Heat up your water and put in into a cup or jar to steep with the two chamomile tea bags. Take the Rosemary leaves and grind them as fine as possible. Remove the tea bags and stir in the lemon juice! I really love this spray! Homemade Shampoo Recipes. How to Highlight Hair With Hydrogen Peroxide. Photo: Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images If you're thinking of updating your look, you might be considering adding highlights to your hair. But instead of dropping some serious dough at the salon, why not lighten your locks at home? You don't even need to buy any expensive dyes; the only thing standing between you and highlighted hair is a bottle of hydrogen peroxide.
Adding highlights to your hair with hydrogen peroxide is easy and cheap and will freshen your hairstyle just in time for that fun night out. Fill up a spray bottle with 3-percent hydrogen peroxide solution. Test the hydrogen peroxide on a small part of your hair before you go nuts spraying it everywhere. Spray the hydrogen peroxide solution on the section of your hair you want to lighten. Allow the solution to dry and check out your newly highlighted tresses. Keep the hydrogen peroxide out of your eyes -- it burns.
Don't use a hydrogen peroxide solution that is any more than 3 percent or it might damage your hair. How to Bleach Your Hair with Hydrogen Peroxide. Did you know? Due to the chemical property of hydrogen peroxide to bleach human hair, it is also known as 'peroxide blonde'. Everybody likes to experiment with their hair. Hair coloring is a pretty popular trend. There are many methods to get a particular hair color. One of them is hair bleaching. The safest way to bleach your hair is at a parlor. An expert hair stylist will help you achieve the right hair color shade. In case you have healthy hair, then you can consider bleaching your hair at home with 3% hydrogen peroxide. Procedure of Bleaching Hair with Hydrogen Peroxide The things you need are -Hair dyeing glovesOld towelClarifying shampooDeep conditionerWide-tooth combClaw clips3% hydrogen peroxide solutionSteel spray bottle Wash and Dry Hair Use a mild clarifying shampoo and wash your hair clean.
Strand Test Now, wear the gloves and pour the solution of hydrogen peroxide in the steel spray bottle. Then wash the hair strand with cool water and condition it. Bleaching Hair Reapplications. Homemade Coconut Milk Shampoo. I have been wanting to make my own homemade shampoo for SUCH a long time! I have searched far and wide! At first I considered the “No ‘Poo” method which MANY people swear by…but it just didn’t seem like it was for me. So my search continued. Eventually I found two very similar recipes I liked from Crunchy Better and Wellness Mama. Both contain what I consider to be the “magic ingredient”….coconut milk! While I didn’t MAKE my own coconut milk (I think I will try it next time I make this shampoo), Crunchy Betty has a good tutorial on how to do so.
So here is my version of….. 1/4 cup coconut milk (Like I said, you can either make your own, or use store-bought) 1/3 cup liquid castile soap (like Dr. 1 tsp vitamin E, olive or almond oil 10 to 20 drops your choice of essential oils (I used lavender. Combine all ingredients in a shampoo bottle or jar and shake well to mix. Use about a teaspoon every time you shampoo. I loved pretty much everything about this shampoo. Never miss a good thing! Food on Your Face (and Hair) : Yogurt. If I were to pick one thing I hate about myself, it would be: I’m lactose intolerant.
Not a day goes by that I don’t long–nay, yearn achingly–for ice cream. It doesn’t help that there are ice cream shops next door, across the street, and one block down from where I live. I hate these people, in a very loving way. But I can eat yogurt! And eat it, I do. Smoothies are a staple in my life (peanut butter and chocolate chip, especially). I also use yogurt in a grand amount of my homemade beauty recipes. Why Yogurt is Good For Your Skin Full of protein, enzymes, and zinc, yogurt does a great job at cleaning up and softening your skin.
It’s just a tad bit acidic, which makes it great as an exfoliator, and it restores balance to your skin’s natural pH makeup. Plus, it gives an awesome consistency to food-based masks and scrubs. Quick and Easy Yogurt Tips Dab a little bit of plain yogurt on a blemish. This is my hair on yogurt (and cocoa powder). Why Yogurt is Good for Your Hair Yogurt Left Over? A Quick Fix For Oily Hair . . . “Dry Clean” It. This post is brought to you by Amazon where you can get deals on household supplies! This stuff saved my life this week! Well, OK…maybe that’s a BIT of an exaggeration…but not much! Let’s just say I had a HAIR EMERGENCY on Tuesday and was VERY GRATEFUL I had recently seen this idea by Danielle on Hookable Designs. The funny thing is…I hadn’t originally intended on doing a post on this only because my hair is SO dry that I would never have the need to de-grease my hair. Well…that’ll teach me to NEVER say NEVER!
Here is my sad story…with a happy ending! Anyway…back to my sad…then happy…story. Sorry…having difficulty keeping on track today! So…I needed some professional “head shots” for some upcoming stuff and finally decided to bite the bullet and make an appointment. That morning I allowed myself plenty of time to get myself ready and went all-out in my primping session. I quickly located the recipe in my bookmarks and was thrilled to see I had all the ingredients on hand. I call it my:
How To Use A Sock To Get Beautiful Curly Hair Without Heat. If you are a mom on the go with long hair you HAVE TO try this. It will knock your socks off and have you wrapping your hair up in them! This is all about how to make your hair beautiful with no heat and no time. Curl your hair in your sleep with a sock. Yup, you heard me right. Have you heard of this sock bun? You really can curl your hair in your sleep with a sock.
If you have ever ran out the door in a sweat, with two different earnings in, desperately trying to throw some bobby pins in your hair in hopes that you don’t look like a mess. I was on Pinterest a while back and spotted this post about the sock bun which links you to her video on YouTube. Why? Because: It literally takes a minute to doNO heat at all – just a soft little sock in your hairNo product (for me anyway)You can sleep in it very comfortablyIt works Marvelously and is simple beautiful This is the sock bun before and after of my hair.
Here are the step by step instructions on how to make this work. Video Demonstration. The 10 Best YouTube Hair Tutorials. We already brought you our 10 favorite YouTube makeup tutorials and now it's time to get your hair up to snuff, too. From a perfect 5-strand side braid to the elusive beachy wave, we've got the best online hair gurus teaching you how to take care of your locks. Click through to find a new 'do and pick up a few styling pointers along the way. How to Do a Five-Strand Side Braid: The (seemingly) bad news? The all-of-a-sudden-super-popular fishtail braid just got upstaged. How to Create a Textured Updo: Whether your hair is naturally full of texture, or you’re just trying to revive/extend the life of a three-day old hairstyle, this is the updo for you. How to Make Your Ponytail Look Fuller and Longer:Ponytails are all fine and good until they start looking lame, limp, and lacking.
How to Get Beachy Waves: Call it what you want—be it bedhead or beachy waves, seemingly naturally textured strands will always be a highly sought after look in our book. How to Give Yourself a Blowout: OK, OK. HOW TO: Layered haircut in 5 minutes. 30 Natural Remedies to Make Your Hair Grow Faster … Discovering how to make your hair grow faster can be difficult, especially if you want to go the natural way.
I know that when I cut all of my hair off (it was down to the middle of my back and I went up to just above my shoulders), I was devastated. I liked it for a week, but after that, I wanted my hair back. Learning how to make your hair grow faster naturally is easy, you just have to know the right methods! And I am going to give you 30 super tips on how to return to thick, luscious, long locks! Photo via indulgy.com While it might seem weird to trim your hair while you are growing it out, you want to cut the dead ends off.
Brenda Abbott / Pinterest. 2. Baking Soda Shampoo. Joy-Filled Days » DIY Dry Shampoo. Do you wash your hair every day? I don’t. I have to admit that I use dry shampoo and love it. I have extremely thick hair and it takes me so long to dry. So, washing my hair every other day saves me a lot of time. Dry shampoo sales are soaring, because it is a great product! 1/2 cup baking soda 1/2 cup corn starch Just mix it together in a glass jar. To use sprinkle about 1/2 tsp into your hands and rub (like you are using hand cream or like a gymnast covers their hands with chalk) Flip you head/hair over the sink and massage your roots with the mixture, starting at the base of your head and working towards your forehead.
Let sit for a minute or two while you put on your makeup. Comb out with a fine comb. You are good to go! **Added tip from reader: If you put it in a shaker bottle you can just sprinkle it on the root area and rub it in. Do you shampoo every day? Brenda Abbott / Pinterest.