Reader’s Choice: Hair Care

Recently I have received quite a few requests for penning down a post on my hair care. So here it is.

I am often questioned “Did you straighten your hair??” or few straight charges of "you must have straightened your hairs". Well, the truth is I rarely straighten my hair. I only tinker with straighteners and curlers or I should say tidying up only if I am going out for a trip for more than 2 days. 

If I am at home and getting few clicks of mine you have no choice but to trust my words that I DO NOT straighten my hair J. You can check out my pictures below. I have taken these the next morning after hair wash. You can see most of the hairs are smooth and straight. The issue is with the small layers, porcupines would be happy to have such pointing out hair ends but not me J.

Hence, to make the edges smooth I make a bun like below. Securing it with an elastic band and then pinning up with pretty hair clip. The last pic in Indian attire is the result on 2nd day. So, what I am trying to say here is that mostly I do not straighten my hairs. They are good enough naturally.

My hairs have turned softer and silkier since I have followed my husband’s advice of applying Mustard oil J. I learned from him that mustard oil is the best oil one could have. I have seen a great deal of difference in texture, growth and thickness of my hair from this oil. Thanks to my husband who has been applying the same since his childhood. Getting back on basics does have greater advantages.

I oil my hair twice a week. I shampoo my hair only and only with “Matrix Biolage Scalptherapie Normalizing Shampoo” and condition it with“Matrix Biloage hydratherapie Detangling Solution” I get best of both. I do not prefer anything less or more than these.

These are my favorite products after my numerous trials on shampoos and conditioners.

Coming onto straightening hairs, these are my experimental machines J Which I hardly use. However, when I want to, TRESemme is the spray that I use. I would like to make a point here. I do not use hair sprays when I am travelling outside for a long weekend or any trip. I use it only if I need to curl my hairs lest I prefer mild straightening. Reason being, my hairs become rough, sticky and texture goes crazily weird. I would rather make a bun and sustain the straight hairs for long weekend when out of the house.

Below are the pictures where I carried out mild straightening and gave a little bend at the ends with the wide inch curler. Day 1, 2 & 3 I did not use any spray, still they looked tidy J Isn’t it? That’s coz making a neat bun sustains the smoothness of hairs.

So advice to my readers is that you need to select a product that suits your hairs and stick to it rather than changing it often.  I have to take good care of my hairs because I color them. So few home remedies that I often follow for hair care are:

-         Use Mustard oil (twice a week). It can never harm but help.

-         If not great fan of mustard, try applying Olive oil, almond oil are other healthy oils.

-         After applying oil, you can wet a towel and dry it in drier for some time and wrap around your head. The steams makes your scalp absorbs moisture.

-         Apply curd once a month. That helps dry scalp to absorb moisture from the fat in curd.

-         Eggs, are good source for smoothening hairs.

-         It is important to condition every time you shampoo your hair.

Have a lovely week ahead J