Building healthy relationships with your hair

Written By Mhicca Carter

HAIR ROUTINE

Our hair plays a huge part in establishing our self-confidence. By building a 'Haircare Routine' this provides a greater understanding and helps us recognise how to take care of our hair well.

Building a regular consistent Haircare Routine helps us to see healthy changes, much like most things in our lives.

Building an understanding of our scalp and hair health is layered with the ability to understand our hair and feeding it what it needs.

From my in-depth knowledge and years working with hair, this post is designed to empower you with knowledge and insight to enhance your hair health and vitality.

DO’S:

Understand the condition of your hair —

Establish what your hair needs to feed it the right ingredients for example. If your hair is fragile, weak and breaking and you are feeding it moisture it is not going to repair the broken ends as it needs predominantly protein to rebuild its structure.

Wash your hair 2-3 times a week —

This helps your hair health and scalp by allowing your natural oils to absorb and maintain its own natural moisture. Once upon a time I was a daily cleanse kind-a-girl. After establishing different ways of styling my hair I reduced this dramatically. Second day styling with a Airwrap is my top best kept secret.

Double cleanse when shampooing the hair —

The first shampoo is designed to rid the hair of build up and residue, while the second will cleanse and nourish your strands

Use salon professional products —

Make sure you are seeing a difference with your hair products. If not seek professional advice as you may have missed diagnosed the hair.

DON’TS:

Wash your hair daily —

This removes good natural oils from the hair and scalp which help keep your hair and scalp naturally moisturised.

Tip: If you are experiencing dandruff this could be a sign your over cleansing.

Over use hot tools —

I can generally diagnose heat damage from chemical damage purely by looking at the hair shaft. Heat on a regular basis tends to dehydrate the hair breaking down the cortex and structure of the hair stands, this can result in split stiff unhealthy ends.

Tip: Use styling tools no hotter than 180 degrees or a thermal protector.

Avoid treatments —

MY BIGGEST HAIRCARE TIP, a treatment is designed to penetrate deep into the internal parts of the hairshaft reconstructing and rebuilding the hair from the inside out. Our range of treatments visibly reduces breakage.

Tip: The hair becomes 10X more resilient when using a regular treatment.

Mhicca Carter