Curly Hair Care
Hair porosity plays an important role in our hair care regime. One way of telling the health of your hair is its porosity. Hair porosity is determined by how easily moisture can pass through the cuticle layer of hair shaft. All hair is porous but the level of porosity depends on genetics and the amount of damage that the cuticle layer has gone through. The more […]
How porous is your hair?
The most dreaded part of having curly hair is the process of detangling and taking those stubborn knots out. This is the process which can cause a lot of breakage and split ends if not done in proper manner. Unlike straight hair, curly and wavy hair is more prone to tangles because of its structure. So here we will see how we can detangle curly […]
How to detangle curly hair
You know sometimes when you feel your hair is not responding to the products that were working perfectly fine for quite sometime and no matter how many times you use your regular shampoo, you still feel your hair weighed down and limp. The solution to your problem can be to clarify your hair. What is clarifying Clarifying is to clean your hair from pollutants, dirt, product build up […]
What is a clarifying shampoo?
You must have remembered from the Protein and moisture balance post that it is essential to keep your hair balanced with these two. Moisture provides the elasticity to hair which is very important to prevent breakage and protein provides the structure to hold the moisture in. So, these two go hand in hand and it is important for healthy hair that you balance moisture and […]
My experiments with Gelatin
Silicones are used as conditioning agents in most hair care products like shampoo, conditioners, treatments and leave-in products. How silicones work Due to their good spreadability, they make a thin film on hair which reduces hair porosity, and prevent hair from absorbing moisture from outside air. That’s how they provide anti-frizz and help in extreme humid condition. Lubricates the surface of the hair to provide […]
Silicone in hair care – Is it for curly hair?
The biggest problem with curly hair is how to make the curls last longer. Our hair looks fabulous on first day after wash. But after the first night, you wake up with frizzy, mashed up curls. I will show you how you can refresh your curls the second day. Be realistic, the second day curls never look as frizz-free as they look on first day […]
How to get second-day curls
I am a CG follower but unlike CG I do not always co-wash (using conditioner instead of shampoo to clean hair) my hair. I use a sulfate free shampoo every fourth day to wash my hair. Here I will try to show you how I apply shampoo and conditioner so my tangling is minimized. Don’t forget to like the video if you find it useful 🙂
Best technique to shampoo and condition curly and wavy hair
Have you been facing the hair breakage problem lately? Let’s find out what could be the cause of hair breakage and how you can prevent it. First let’s clarify that breakage is different than hair fall. If the hair snaps off from somewhere along the hair shaft then it is breakage but if the hair comes out of the root (you can see hair bulb […]
Protein and moisture balance
All of us long for healthy and lustrous hair as your hair is considered your crowning glory. How your hair looks on a particular day makes a lot of difference to your appearance . But alas, I remember in my younger days when I had a crown not of glory but of thrones. My hair was unmanageable with lots of split ends. To tame my curls, I […]