Review - TRESemme's Fresh Start Dry Shampoo--for oily/straight tonormal hair

 

Alright! So, now I am doing yet another review on another hair product. There's nothing better than having your beautiful red hair color washing out of your hair and running down the drain, and you're just seeing it and thinking to yourself "Why is my hair colour running down the drain?! All that hard work for nothing!"

Yes, all that hard work is for nothing when you don't take care of your red hair. Every time you wash your hair with or without a sulfate free shampoo, your colour will still run. Especially if you have red hair. 

So today, I am going to be doing a review on DRY SHAMPOO! This helps with keeping in your colour! If you wash your hair, you will know that when your hair is wet, the colour will still drain--especially if it's red! So if you are trying to prolong the colour from fading so fast, use a dry shampoo! And the one I have is the one from TRESemme.

I know people who see this picture know what I'm talking about, and I bet you all can relate to it too. Red hair as you all know is the fastest fading hair colour. 

By the way, the picture above is not me. . . I just took it off of google!

Basically, how I use this hair spray is just shaking up the bottle a couple times, and then I just spray it on my parting, and then all over my hair line. It basically helps to absorb the disgusting odour, oil and smell. I don't section my hair and then spray it, I basically just spray at the most noticeable parts of my hair. 

So now that I have told you about this product, I'm going to tell you the pros and the cons of this product!

Pros

This product is GREAT for absorbing oils, and nasty odour. You know, that smell that you get from being out all day? Pollutants, and odors cling onto dirty, oily hair the most and linger. Using dry shampoo helps to eliminate that odour, or at least most of it. It's also cheap too! I bought this on sale for $3.99 + HST = roughly 13% so it was about... $4.51 CAD?

Cons

This product makes your hair look gray for a minute or two, but when you start to brush it through, rub it a bit, it helps in the end to get rid of the grayish/whiteness left on your hair. It's just a bit annoying. The next bad thing about this product is that you can't bring this onto an airplane, or submarine because it is an aerosol can after all, and for people who are environmentally friendly will not like these cans because THEY DESTROY THE OZONE LAYER! 

Something(s) to know

Don't use this EVERY single day. You MUST wash your hair after using this after once or twice because this is just powder that is meant to extend the amount of days you can go without washing your hair as often.  Also, this stuff will build up if you always use this continuously every single day, and then by that time you should probably use a clarifying shampoo. It will get rid of all the buildup.

Overall, I think this product works well and absorbs the oil and odour that is left lingering on your hair and it does a great job with keeping your hair smelling not SO bad. I would definitely give this product a 4/5 mainly because I don't believe that this product is my HOLY GRAIL product. Speaking of which, I will be doing a post on my current HG products. 

Hopefully you all enjoyed reading this post! Stay tuned for further posts!

Tah-tah for now!

Want Red Hair? Already Have Red Dyed Hair? I'm going to tell you how to keep your red hair from fading so fast!

Hey everyone!

So, as you can already see from the title of this post I want to share with you all on how I take care of my red hair!

As you probably know by now, red hair is notorious for fading the fastest! Yet, at the same time it also stains like crazy! 

If you guys want to know how I got my hair red, here is the link to how I got my hair the colour I have now. I have pics so you can see what the before and after look like!

Okay, so before I dive into giving you all tips on how to get red hair or how to keep your hair red, let me tell you about the red hair dye itself. Red is the fastest fading colour out of any other colour synthetic wise. Their particles are really small so that they can enter the hair shaft through the cuticle easily, but unlike other hair colours where they go into the hairs shaft, the red molecules don't EXPAND as much as other hair dye colours. You'll probably know that if you dyed your hair brown, or have friends who have dyed their hair brown the colour doesn't fade as fast as other colours. Why? Because brown hair molecules are fairly small too, but when they get into the hair shaft, they EXPAND and then it makes it really hard for the colour to "leak" out. Brown I believe is the slowest fading colour. Blonde, just gets brassy!

Also, the red colour spectrum is fairly large ranging from copper to auburn and beyond. Copper, is the colour that doesn't fade easily. It's usually the "base" colour for reds and you'll notice that intense red hair colours fade immensely fast! But copper won't fade as fast.

Alright, so now I'll tell you all about how to take care of your red dyed hair!

Tip #1

Wash your hair in cold water!

Trust me! You'll regret not washing your hair in cold water. Cold water closes the cuticle so the hair dye doesn't run out as fast. With reds, the hair colour will always be draining out... your bath tub will look like a murder crime scene! Unless you clean it often. I clean mine usually every other day but after a while when the red colour doesn't run as much, I clean it once a week with vinegar. I always use vinegar for cleaning any surface area in my house.

Tip #2
 
Use colour treated shampoo!

If you don't wash your hair with a shampoo that is meant for colour treated hair, then you're just wasting your money, time and effort on your red hair. Dying your hair red is a true commitment, just like having kids. You have to take care of it! I will do a review on what shampoos and conditioners I use very soon.

Tip #3

Colour depositing shampoo and/or conditioner!

Really, there is no point in just using a shampoo for colour treated hair especially if you have red hair. Even with a colour treated shampoo, your hair colour will still fade, just not AS fast as if you weren't using a colour treated shampoo. Personally, I wash my hair with a good sulfate free moisturizing shampoo meant for colour treated hair, and then I mix my special effects in the colour "nuclear red" and I just slap it on my damp, towel dried hair after rinsing the shampoo out, and then I leave it on for about 10 minutes. People say 3-5 minutes, but I don't really care. I leave it on longer because I feel it helps the colour to really get set into my hair. After that, I rinse it out. 

I know at my one hair salon I always go to to buy products, sells davinus I believe that's how you spell it. Anyways, that brand makes colour depositing shampoos and conditioners for red hair colours ranging from copper, to red, auburn and they also make brown hair colours too. They basically just deposit hair colour into your hair and shampooing away the oils and dirt at the same time. 

Tip #4

Don't wash your hair everyday! 

Seriously don't. You can't expect to get a bright red hair colour to last until your next appointment to the salon or whatever by washing your hair every day or every other day. You are just DREAMING! I wash my hair usually 2-3 times a week! I will never ever wash my hair everyday!

Tip #5

Use oils and other UV protectant products on your hair!

Ive already mentioned my hair oils to you all already, so you basically know what the oils do to your hair. Or, what they do to my hair that is. . .

If you go out into the sun during the day time, the sun's powerful UV rays damage your body! No matter what people say, too much UV will cause you to look really tan and disgusting in my opinion. I'm against tanning! Sorry, to anyone who likes tanning!

Using a good UV protectant on your hair is really helpful because the UV rays wont be able to touch your hair strands, and damaging them. It'll just simply reflect off of your hair, and out into the abyss again. Red hair, will fade very fast and look dull if you don't protect your hair with a UV protectant!

I also use the AG's liquid varnish too, and it's a silicone based hair product so it helps to keep the UV rays from damaging my hair, and my precious hair colour. (More AG product reviews to come!)

So basically you know all about how to keep your hair red!

If you want to know how to get your hair red, check out my other posts, and of course the link above! (it says link).

See y'all later! (Haha I'm trying to act like an American with that awesome accent!)



 

Update - Nywele's Argan Oil Oil Treatment

Okay! I have been keeping an eye on my stats looking at which one of my posts get looked at the most, and so far it's the Nywele's Argan Oil, Oil Treatment one which hasn't really made a big appearance. I think it's because it's still a fairly new product brand and that not a lot of people know about it? I went to the website that they posted on their bottle, but it isn't even the right website! 

So hopefully me letting you all know about this product will get people to either try it, or just not get into using this product at all.

As you all may have read, I dyed my hair today and instead of using the Moroccanoil Oil Treatment that I always use on my freshly dyed, shampoo/conditioned damp, towel dried hair, I used the Nywele's one instead. In my opinion the oil does help a lot with the detangling and helps to moisturize it even more, and then I sprayed the TRESemme's heat tamer spray all over my hair, combed through and blow dried it. It really helped keep my hair from breaking/snapping off as much, and it also made it shiny.

I still hate the weird paraffin-like smell of this product. They should really make this product smell better because to a lot of people this product can be a real turn off. 

Also, I will be going on a 3.5 month vacation soon in around October, and I already brought product that is meant for the extreme humidity, and where I will be going is very humid! Warm ocean currents keep the country humid all year round especially because I will be living by the coast! If only I could stay in the inland areas, but oh well I'll have to see about that when I get there eh?!

So, that being said I will be doing more reviews on the hair products specially meant for the humidity when I get there and I'll definitely let everyone know about this product later on too because I will be bringing it with me, along with my Moroccanoil oil treatment product too!

So good luck, and enjoy your day/night wherever you are!

I hope that you all will come and see more of my upcoming posts soon! Please bookmark my blog page on your web browser so then you can always check back weekly to see if I have any new awesome reviews, tutorials or advice on hair and more! I will definitely be doing a "haul" blog post later on for sure, so stay tuned for that! And please by all means, spread the word about my blog! I will be much appreciated if you can! You guys are awesome!

Ciao for now!

Review - L'oreal Excellence HiColor Reds for Dark Hair Only -- Shade H9 RED HOT

Hello again!

So, it's that "time of the month" again for me as in I have to re-dye my hair! Because of my awful roots that are starting to show again! As you all know, I dye my hair red continuously, so I don't change my color like some people who go from brown, to blonde, to red, to black and then they freak out because they can't get rid of the black.

You have probably seen my other previous posts, I did a transparent dye treatment which is basically a cellophane hair gloss treatment meant to give shine and somewhat "tone" down your intense shades if they are too intense for you. Also, they help to prolong your colour too. 

So I am going to show you how I go from this:

To this:

Before I begin, let me tell you about the "history" of my hair! I'm going to be using a shade that I used a lot a while ago when I went from my golden brown hair colour, to using "golden brown" henna (which made my hair red) and then to a somewhat brownish-red colour to match the faded henna colour, and then to the red hot which I have used after. If you all know, that COLOUR DOES NOT LIFT COLOUR! And I found that out the hard way because my roots I had dyed with the brownish red colour I bought from Shoppers Drug Mart, and then when i dyed my hair with the red hot shade from the l'oreal excellence brand from Sally's (more higher end dye) it didn't lighten the already dyed hair so I basically had to keep on re-dying it over and over again, month after month and now it's been about a year? Maybe less, and my the dark patches have now faded, and the red is starting to really take over. It was either bleach it out which probably would have been worse since I had hennaed my hair, or just keep on dying it over and over like what I did now a days.

Okay! So let me tell you what you will need if you want to achieve the desired shade!

note: applying this dye on virgin hair (never before dyed hair) will result in a more uniform colour than dying it over previously coloured hair.)

You will need:

- Shade H9 RED HOT from L'Oreal (you can buy it at sally's)

- Gloves

- 30 or 40 vol. developer (I personally use 30 vol because I don't want to kill my hair)

- Mixing Bowl

- Applicator Brush

- Plastic shopping bag OR a disposable plastic head wrap, or cellophane (saran wrap) to 

   help keep the heat in your hair, and to get the colour to come out better.

- Vaseline or petroleum jelly. Trust me you will want to put this on your hairline and 

   anywhere where you think the dye will touch your skin! With reds, they stain! And will 

   take a few days to wash out of your skin!

- A good shampoo and conditioner

- Heat protectant

- Hair Oils

Optional!

Old T-Shirt

Hair dying cape

I personally just use an old t-shirt, or I just do it with nothing on me, and the dye would be touching my bare back...  

So basically I just took the cap, punctured the seal on the tube and squeezed it out. As you can see from the picture below, I already squeezed out the dye and I have another tube of which I will be squeezing out again.

Caution - this stuff smells really weird!

So I didn't show the picture of me squeezing out the red intensifier that came with the tube, it's a .10 fl oz tube of pure red pigment which I added to make the red more "intense" so to say, and then I measured 5 fl oz of the ion sensitive scalp developer and poured it into my mixing bowl, and then I mixed it all up! 

So basically the end result is this! very red dye!!

 

So I wasn't able to document me putting the dye onto my roots because when your hands are covered in blood red dye, it's kind of hard to take pictures with your phone without worrying about it getting dirty, messed up etc.

I basically started to put my hair into a half up half down kind of style, and I started from the very bottom of my head, focusing on the roots mainly, and then sectioning again, and putting the colour mainly on the roots! I did this all the way from bottom to top! It was somewhat grueling because I started to sweat a lot, and I had to constantly wipe my face which i didn't like to do too much but it was worth it!

I also combed each section after I finished dying just so the dye can spread out a bit more, and then when I was done colouring my roots, I gently combed through with my wide tooth comb again, and used my fingers (with gloves on of course) and then after that I just put a plastic bag on top of my head, and let the heat do its magic! 

Personally, I just use the bag that I got from sally's beauty supply, you can use a plastic hair cap, or cellophane/saran wrap, but I just use whatever is easy for me. And then I let my hair develop for about 20 minutes! 

After having the colour develop on my head for 20 minutes, I then took the remaining dye that was left in my mixing bowl, and distributed it all over the length of my hair! Then I left it on for about... 10-20 more minutes, and this is what the final result is!

I just used the same pic above haha. But this time i turned on the flash because it was getting dark outside, plus the colour takes a few hours to really show its true colour! Well, on my hair it does anyways . . . 

I know the next day, it will be a lot brighter and when I wash it in a few days, it will look a lot brighter too!

Overall, this product is amazing and I do love how it's very nice and intense looking! I personally prefer the "red" shade from the L'Oreal HiColor HiLights one because it looks SO much more of the nice rich red that I like, but who knows maybe this shade will be somewhat like the red shade that I used before too! We'll just have to wait and see! I'll definitely make an update around next week.

With so much hype about this product, and that it is actually true to its shade, I will def have to give this product a 5/5! It's a little pricey, about $7-$8 CAD depending on if you have the beauty club card or not, but in the end it is well worth it!

Review - TRESemme Heat Tamer Spray

Hello again everyone!

I was pretty excited when a lot of people read my blog post on the Nywele's Argan Oil! I was pretty happy considering it was my very first post that I have ever made on this blog and I still use the oil! 

Now, I am going to be doing a review on this product called TRESemme Heat Tamer Spray!

So a lot of you have probably heard about this product! It's been out on the market for a while, and I have used this product for many many years! 

For those who don't know, I probably haven't mentioned this before... or have I?

I tend to switch up my products constantly! I usually buy products that are in a large bottle, and I buy 3-4 different kinds of hair products that I use when I am blow drying, or styling my hair with a flat iron, curling iron etc and that's what seems to work for me. I find that switching my hair products helps, because people do say that your hair does get used to the same product after a while, blah blah blah. . .

Anyways, enough about my little splurge I'll get started on telling you about this product!

Okay, so if you don't know about this product you are probably one of those people who live under a rock ! Maybe. . . but this product is a miracle when you used it for the first time because it says on that back that it makes your hair soft and incredibly shiny! Personally, I don't think it makes my hair shiny it just makes it very soft which I like.

 

Everyone wants shiny hair ! If you haven't read my other blog on tips on how to make and keep your luscious locks healthy and shiny, when you heat style your hair a lot, it becomes dull--sadly.

Alright, so now I'm going to tell you about what I like and dislike about this product!

The one thing I love about this product is that it smells AMAZING! I think it's like a green apple smell? I don't know if they changed the smell since I just recently started using this product again after a couple of months. Yes I know I'm doing a review on a product that I used a while ago, so I know what this product basically can do. 

In my opinion, this product helps protect my hair from the flat iron. I personally wouldn't use this for blow drying your hair. I did it once, and I didn't like it because I found that when you are putting this liquidy spray-like product on your damp/wet hair, it doesn't "absorb" as well in my opinion so that's why I usually use oil-based products like the Nywele, or the Moroccanoil Oils for blow drying my hair, and it also helps with the frizz... somewhat. Because my hair gets super frizzy after I blow dry my hair, I decided that letting my hair air dry would be better, and it works! My hair isn't AS frizzy as if I did blow dry it. 

Wow, I digress a lot ha ha!

Anyways, I'm going to tell you about the BAD side of this product.

What I don't like about this product is that this has a very wide misty spray kind of thing... like when I spray it especially if it's near my face, it seems like a lot of the spray just hits my face and then i get annoyed because when it dries, I feel like that it is going to clog my pores or something and then I start to get worried because my skin is oily-acne prone skin type and it breaks out easily. 

Also, it seems really wet if you spray it more than 2 times in one section. But I usually section my hair and then spray it, comb through once or twice, and then wait about 10-15 seconds and then I comb through it again once, and then I run my straightener or curling iron through it. 

Keep in mind that I hardly EVER curl my hair except for if I'm going out for halloween... or if I am super bored at home and I have nothing better to do, so I would just try curling my hair because I think it would be pretty fun to try out different curled hairstyles. 

But I always straighten my hair. Almost everyday. 

Anyways, I do recommend this product to anyone who is on a tight budget because this product I bought at my local shoppers drug mart store for only $4.00 and it was on sale! Normally it's like $7.00 CAD? I know at other stores, it is cheaper, and for the people in the united states, it's like $3.00? It's a lot cheaper in the states in my opinion, but here in Canada, it's not as cheap.

Plus its a basic heat protectant meant for all hair types.

Anyways, I personally give this product a 4/5 mainly because it works so well, and I love it! 

Hopefully you all will enjoy it too!

Review - Transparent Hair Dye -- Ion Brand

Hello again.

I'd like to say that I really hate the way this editing page is setup because I lost a shiz ton of information I put on here! Grrrrrr!!!!

Anyways, on my other post that I made on about taking care of your hair, and tips on how to get your hair to ACTUALLY grow, and I mentioned that I made a post on transparent hair dye. So here it is!

 

Now the one that I use is by ion, and I bought it at my local sally's beauty supply store. It was about... $6 CAD? Somewhere around that price range for me because I have a beauty club card, and this one is a demi-permanent rather than a semi. Unfortunately, they do not have a permanent one because it's just a shine dye after all. It's main purpose is to make your hair extremely shiny for about 20-25 washes I believe, so it does wash out after a while and then you will have to do it again. 

  

As you can see from the photo above, I used a 10 volume developer to mix with the demi-permanent dye. Do not use a volume higher than a 10 volume developer! No matter what the people tell you! Demi-permanent dyes are only meant to go DARKER or refresh the colour you used with a perment dye before. Also, 10 volume is considered "neutral" which is only meant to deposit the colour into your hair, unlike 20 and 30+ volume developers the 10 will NOT lighten your hair no matter what. 

If you mix this dye with a 20 or 30+ volume developer, the developer will "overpower" the dye and in turn not work out. The dye will not appear on your hair. This means, you wasted your money on the dye and developer. 

  

As you can see from the photo above, this is what the tube looks like. Shiny, and in my opinion-- aesthetically pleasing.

 

So this is a picture of me squeezing the dye out onto my bowl. You can see that I had poured the entire content of the bottle out already. This dye is a 1:2 ratio type of dye, as in you mix 4 oz developer to 2 oz of dye. 

 

  

So after saturating my hair with this dye, this is what your hair should look like after applying the dye to all of your hair. I was scared that I didn't have enough dye, because I used up all of the dye even when I mixed it with the entire 4 oz bottle of developer, and I still had some dry spots, which were okay because I gently combed through and covered up all of the dry spots. 

After that, I waited about 30-45 minutes for it to process. You don't have to wait this long, you can rinse it out after 20-25 minutes. Just be sure to shampoo and condition your hair after.  

So this is the end result. I did this application at night, and then waited till the morning when I just took a picture with flash, and in my opinion there isn't much shine... my hair does feel really smooth though, that's probably because the peroxide and the dye helped to get rid of all of the buildup from the silicones that I use on my hair to make it shiny. 

I probably did this wrong too? I probably should have just conditioned first and then shampooed lightly and then conditioned again, and it probably would have turned out a lot better. I don't know. 

Overall, I think this product is "okay" I'd rate it a 3/5 because I don't really notice that my hair is a lot shinier than it was before... maybe next time when I do a shine treatment, I'll condition it first and shampoo and condition again after.

Long Hair Care - Taking Care of Your Lucious Locks!

Hello everyone. 

I'd like to talk to you about taking care of your hair! A lot of you may have long hair, or are wanting to have long hair. I will be giving advice on how to getting long hair, and on how to take care of your hair!

As you may know, that I do have long hair myself.

As you can see from the photo above, is a picture of my long hair. Sorry if the picture doesn't look the best, I did take it with my iPhone after all... 



Basic info about EVERYONE'S hair

Alright, so I am pretty sure that you all know that hair is made out of keratin proteins. For those who do not know what keratin is, is basically what hair is made out of... I know, I'm repeating myself, but it's simple! Everyone has different hair types, but no matter what-- everyone's hair is made from keratin. 

For people who want to grow out their hair, or already have long hair, but isn't AS healthy as you want it to be, you'll want to follow these tips.

Tip #1

GET REGULAR TRIMS!

For all who do not know about this, but if you don't cut at least half an inch of your hair off every 4-6 weeks, you will find that your hair is just getting really damaged, dried and looks like it is going to break off at the ends. For those who heat style their hair like me, you all know about those awful split ends! You will probably see those dumb products that companies advertise like the joico k-pak 
split end mender, tresemme split end sealing serum, and much more is obviously a bunch of mumbo jumbo! 

 

 
These products contain adhesive glues, and what not that basically just "stick" the split ends together and then they either wash out of the hair when you shampoo it, or just stick there and build up and build up more and more every time you apply it onto your ends, and in the end your hair will break off. Cutting those split ends is the only way to remove those split ends permanently. Now you will find that after a month or so, your ends will become split and dried again. If you heat style your hair, you know this will happen no matter what products you use. You can use all of the products in the world on your hair, and it will not prevent split ends from occurring. 

Tip #2

Don't wash your hair as much! 

 

You don't have to wash your hair every single day just to keep it clean. It's good to have those natural oils come from your roots and make it's way down to the shaft of your hairs. Our body does not produce these natural oils for nothing. I wash my hair max 2-3 times a week! You don't need to wash your hair more than that! If you dye your hair red like me, you will know what I mean. Washing your hair strips it of its natural oils, which lubricate the shaft of your hairs and thus prevent it from drying out. 

Tip #3

DO NOT USE SULFATE SHAMPOOS!


 

 

For those who do not know what sulfates are, sulfates are basically "cleansing" agents used in laundry detergents, dish soaps and a lot more household cleansers. They basically foam around oils, and dirt etc and then carry it away when you are rinsing your hair out under the water in the shower. They cut through grease very efficiently. Dish soaps are LOADED with sulfates! SLS, SLES, ALS, ALES etc. Shampoos mainly have water as their first ingredient, and then the second ingredient is usually "sodium lauryl sulfate", "sodium laureth sulfate", "ammonium laurl sulfate", or "ammonium laureth sulfate" Sodium lauryl(eth) sulfates are bad for your hair and scalp mainly because the particles are really small that they are able to slip through your scalp, and irritate your scalp and entering your nervous system causing your scalp to shed, and flake. 

This makes your scalp become dry because of it. Ammonium lauryl(eth) sulfate shampoos basically are the same, except the ammonium particles are MUCH bigger than the sodium particles which is good because they do not penetrate your hair as easily as the sodium lauryl(eth) sulfate shampoos. Either way, both ingredients are not good for your hair. Some say that sulfate shampoos cause your hair to fall out, and are known to cause HAIR LOSS!

 

Hopefully this picture above will let you all know that if you continue to use a sulfate shampoo, it will make your hair really bad in the future!

Tip #4

Use sulfate free shampoos! 
 
Personally, I don't use live clean but almost all of my friends who care about their hair do! I use a different shampoo that's called "One n' Only" argan oil moisturizing shampoo meant to protect your colour treated hair, and also moisturize your hair and scalp!

Live clean I've heard also does the same, but I cannot guarantee that because I have not tried it yet. After I finish my one n' only argan oil shampoo, I will definitely use the live clean brand next! 

Anyways, I will not digress anymore. Sulfate free shampoos are SO much more gentler on your hair and scalp because they don't have sulfates! Sulfates strip your hair of its natural oils and if you have colour treated hair, it will strip your hair of the dye too! People who dye their hair red beware of not using sulfate free shampoos! Use a sulfate free shampoo!

If you use a sulfate free shampoo, your hair and scalp will definitely thank you! Another brand I am highly aware of are: Pureology, and Sudzz.

 
 
All sulfate free shampoos are meant for colour treated hair unless the package says so otherwise. 

You probably will find that sulfate free shampoos don't suds up as much as a sulfate shampoo. This is because the sulfates are what make those rich, foamy, lathering suds! Don't worry, your hair is sill getting clean from the sulfate free shampoo. You just wont get those rich suds. 

Again, I will also try out the pureology shampoo next and do a review on it later on!

Tip #5

Use good conditioners, and do a deep conditioning mask once every week!


This is important people!

I currently use the AG conditioner, which apparently seals the cuticle and infuses your hair strands with rich vitamins and proteins which will help keep your hair in good shape. 
If only my bottle of this conditioner came with a pump... boo.

I also use the matrix biolage deep conditioning treatment once a week, and I leave it on for a good 5-10 minute while I am scrubbing down my body in the shower. Removing those dead skin cells feels awesome because you're removing all that dirt, and maybe tanned skin cells from while you were outside!


Anyways, after that I rinse it out well and then I squeeze out my hair gently and then put my hair up into a towel turban, and let it stay in there for about 1 hour? Maybe more, maybe less. I don't know. I just know that I keep it on for a long time. 

Tip #6

WASH YOUR HAIR IN COLD WATER!


Everyone should know this.

Washing your hair in cold water from the shampooing to the conditioning to the deep conditioning stages will make your hair a lot shinier! Cold water, just like conditioner closes the hair cuticle causing the cuticles to lay flat, and in turn create a larger surface area for your hair to reflect the light, thus making your hair a LOT more shinier. 

 

When you wash your hair with warm or hot water, it damages the hair cuticles by opening them up, and when your hair cuticles are open, it allows moisture, from the air to enter your hair shaft which isn't good especially because it will lead to frizz, and if you straighten or curl your hair, and not use any silicone or any finishing product on your hair, the cuticles will open up again, thus ruining all that time you spent doing your hair. Bad hair days aren't good. Just saying. 

Tip #7

Transparent hair dyes! 

I did a transparent hair dye treatment on my hair today, and I will post the link to my blog here.

 

A lot of people who want shine that is OUT OF THIS WORLD, should definitely use this. You can buy them at your local drug store... my other post has everything you need to know about the transparent hair dyes.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed reading my post. I hope you will take all of this into account. I will post tutorials on how to make your own DIY hair mask, and trust me the results the hair masks do to your hair are phenomenal. Treat your hair as if it is a baby! Because if you don't take care of your hair, it will look dry, damaged, dead, and lifeless!

Good luck and enjoy everyone!