My Hair Care Routine

Hi Darlings,

Nina again tonight! I just cant stay away from you lol.

So I wanted to go over some hair care things that I do that might help you with your problems. My hair before I had it trimmed up was just awful. Mostly because I dye it blonde all the time and multiple other colors when I get bored of it.

A few months ago I started seeing that my hair was not only dry and brittle but it was also tangling up and knotting and it was just frayed at the ends like not even frizzy but just balled up and kinda weird looking. Also it would fall out constantly, like clog up your vacuum kind of falling out. I wish I had a picture to show you maybe I do somewhere like facebook or something, I will have to look.

So I love having long hair, however my hair gets to a certain point that it doesn't want to hair anymore it wants to yarn :/, I found that one of the biggest mistakes I was making was that when I went to do my roots I would dye all of my hair too, Why is this bad you ask, because when you are just trying to do your roots but you put that on your whole head you leave the potential to kill the ends of your hair and make it "gummy" which is not good you will lose all luster to your hair and it will not want to cooperate with you, it will do all of the things that I had mentioned earlier.

That is one of the secrets to growing your hair out long is to keep it one color and just dye the healthy roots so that you can keep the ends healthy.

Next I started only shampooing the top of my hair making sure that I use a clarifying shampoo (like head and shoulders) at least twice a week to keep my hair healthy from build up from products that I use through out the week, this is important because hair will not grow strong and long with a dirty scalp. I do condition my whole head but making sure that I focus on the ends and middle more than the top though. I usually do this step after everything when I am about to get out of the shower so I can let it sit for about two or three minutes.

I DO NOT USE COLD WATER. I hate to use cold water when I rinse my hair, I don't feel like it matters as long as your water isn't super, super hot, they say that using cold water seals up the hair follicles and holds in moisture but when ever I use it I feel as if my hair tangles more, and it doesn't feel as clean as I would like it too.

I do use a deep conditioner about once or twice a week only on the ends once and then all over on the second time. I also use a De-frizzing oil every time I wash my hair right before I blow dry it. I also do not use a brush to blow dry my hair with I always use a wide toothed comb, combing your hair while wet prevents breakage and split ends. Comb went wet, Brush when dry. I also do not blow dry my hair all the way because I like to focus the heat on the top and middle half of my hair so that I can avoid heat damage to the ends of my hair.

Here are some of the products that I use.

Shampoo: Organix Morrocan Argon Oil (and the conditioner)
                 Head and Shoulders (original clean)
                 Not Your Mothers : Way to Grow ( conditioner and leave in spay)

Deep Conditioners: Its a 10 miracle leave in.
                                Bio silk
                                Aussie 3 minute Miracle Moisture
                                Color Ion Brilliance moisture pack.
                              
De-frizz/ De-tangle: Giovanni Frizz be gone

Those are the main things that I use on my hair. I have tons of other products but these are the main ones.
Here is what my hair looks like after using these products. 

Love ya,

Nina