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Growing out my hair...? Any tips?
Hello, I am a 18 year-old female. When I was younger, I had always stuck with the same, long hair style. Well, when I was fourteen, I had this sudden urge to chop off my hair, past my jaw. HUUUGE mistake. It made my chubby, square-shaped face look worse, like a friggin' Cabbage Patch kid. So, ever since that nightmare, I've been trying to grow it out.
The problem is, I've been growing it for four years, and it's been suuuch a slow process! It's still not too far past my shoulders. I think the main problem is that I get a loooot of split ends. I've found strands that have had like, five splits on the same strand, it's crazy. So, every time I have to go get it trimmed, they have to trim it so high that it's like it never grew at all.
I'll tell you about my hair. I'm a brunette, I've never dyed it. It's naturally very curly, and can get pretty frizzy (I use lots of mousse and the like to ATTEMPT in fighting this). Every single time I get my hair trimmed, hair dressers always tell me that I have a crap-ton of hair. Although I have a lot, I'm told the strands are actually thin. I've tested my hair, and it is strong, it does break when I pull on a strand. It is oily.
I've looked up how to grow hair, and often they say to not wash your hair every day. Well, my hair being oily, it quickly gets greasy. And I do have bangs, so if I skip a single day of washing, it looks pretty gross. I call it "Bacon bangs", when they get that greasy. I can separately wash my bangs to prevent this, but my head can also get itchy, and get these uncomfortable red itchy bumps on it. So skipping washing is pretty impossible. I don't know what hair products to use. I get split ends a lot, and pretty quickly. It's also very frizzy.
I'm going off to college in the fall, and I'm working on transforming myself, including losing weight, improving the way I dress and present myself, and in addition, I've always dreamed of having long, healthy soft and shiny hair. So if anyone could please help me out and advise me in what to buy and what to do, that would help me out greatly. Thank yoooouu~
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Hello,
Well there are a few things you can do to help hair grow faster:
1. Eat plenty of protein, as hair is made of protein. This is egg whites, chicken, turkey, fish, lamb, etc.
2. You can take supplements for stronger hair + nails. These are little pills you can buy from a health food store. I've never tried them however.
3. Palmers make a "hair growth formula". It smells like coconut, and makes your hair greasy. I used to use this when I cut my hair and hated it. It works, but it's not drastic. You could put this in on days off, leave it for a few hours, and wash it out.
4. When you go to the hairdressers, ask if they have any treatments available for dry, brittle hair. I did it once, and my hair was AMAZINGLY soft. This was after 2 years of straightening and
dry every single day, with split ends everywhere.
5. Try not to wash your hair. If your hair is greasy, you can use a dry shampoo. It's a white powder, and you only use a little. Massage it through your hair, and leave it in. Then style as usual. The powder absorbs the grease. You then brush the powder out, and it's like you just washed it. You can buy this in cosmetics stores/online. It's also called 'leave in shampoo'
6. Massage your scalp with your finger tips. This helps increase blood flow, which helps hair growth.
7. Some people find that using coconut oil in their hair helps healthy hair. You obviously have to leave this in, and then wash it out. Personally, I hate the smell. But it's worth a shot, because it's not expensive.
8. You can try 'hot oil' treatments. It's an oil that is full of good stuff for strong hair. You warm the bottle in hot water, and then massage in. Of course, you leave this in, and wash it out.
Good luck, and I hope I helped! :)
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