| Help! My hair is impossible! |
I have a lot of hair, but it has a ‘corn silk’ texture and even with conditioner, is a tangled nightmare to comb out (after washing). After I dry it, it is wild and uncontrollable. It is only controllable after I roll it and wait a couple of days. I dread washing my hair! BTW it is medium length. Any shampoo/conditioner suggestions?Thanks!!
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I have been a hairstylist for 37 years and here is my best advice……… first of all give it some immediate TLC statting with a healthy trim of all frazzled ends. There is no therapy like scissors for damaged, tangly hair. Especially if your hair is lightened or coloured it will always tangle and be unhealthy if you don’t follow some basic rules. All chemical treatments damage the hair! Try a colour that is closer to your natural shade for less damage or highlighting 50% or less of your hair if you bleach or lighten. Your hair will always look more beautiful in better health than frazzled by bleaching and lightening. Also, colours closer to our natural shade always look better against our skin. We do not all look good in blonde, myself included and brunettes and redheads have just as much fun! Only apply colour or lightener to the new growth NOT the previously treated hair as it can only take so much chemical before it disintegrates into straw. Follow these steps to get best results. Thoroughly but GENTLY detangle with a wide tooth comb from the ends working upwards up (always) and brush your hair before washing. This is good for the scalp as it promotes circulation and stimulates the oil glands while smoothing out the hair. When you shampoo longer hair it is important not to tangle it while doing so. Do not scrub or ball the hair up while lathering; common errors. After thoroughly wetting the hair with medium hot, not scalding water, pre-rinse to remove surface products and anything that has collected in them, spread the shampoo evenly on the hands and likewise on the hair from front to nape. Start massaging into a lather by opening the fingers like rakes and make small circles on the scalp while moving the hands from roots to ends and front to nape. Continue until the entire scalp surface has been massaged pulling the fingers out of the hair away from the head. Remember you are trying not to tangle. It is very important to rinse thoroughly and DO NOT reapeat unless your hair is very dirty or oily! After rinsing squeeze as much excess water out as possible before appying conditioner and DO IT in the same manner as the shampoo. Leave the conditioner in your hair while you cleanse the rest of your body, shave your legs ,etc. This provides a deep conditioning treatment every time you shampoo! Your final rinse should be with tepid, barely warm water and kept short so as to leave a little conditioner in the hair. Wrap your hhead in a towel while you dry the rest of your body and do not rub to dry it except by pressing in a towel while moving from roots to ends. This may sound all to complicated and unessessary but believe me I have learned the best techniques are as important as the products you use. That having been said, use shampoo and conditioner best suited to your hair type and condition ie. for dry, damaged or colour treated hair. Once you get the routine and technique down, it should only take 5 minutes or so excluding the body washing and leg shaving. This is the best routine for all hair types and will pay off in the long run to maintain the healthiest most beautiful hair possible. Use an alcohol free smoothing product, creams work well, and always apply sparingly, a bit at a time from roots to ends. If you must blow dry use medium heat after towelling out most of the water or allowing the hair to start drying on it’s own. The less time the heat is on your hair, the better! If healthy/beautiful hair is important to you, follow these rules and you WILL get the best results possible. If your hair is still ’wild and uncontrollable’ after it is dry use a smoothing sirum sparingly to tame and add shine. If all of this does not work, you need a really big hair cut or to change your colouring routine assuming you colour. Good luck Evie and I would be interested in how you manage.
Thank you, ladies!! I plan to print these responses and follow your advice, as suggested! Daring Da… I have not been ‘fair’ to my hair and your suggestions will be invaluable! I think I do “scrub and ball” my hair up when shampooing! Yikes! All of your suggestions will be very helpful! I will let you know!!
And Carol Or…I think the cut is very important, as well. I just found a new stylist who is known for cutting…we shall see!
When things ‘settle down’ around here, I will re-read and follow these great instructions!
Happy Holidays to both of you and thanks again!
You’re welcome! I learned a lot from Daring Da’s response, too….glad you found a great haircutter. Here’s the real desll: I’d given up on my hair but going the extra mile, I now get more compliments than ever before….good louck!