Nourishing your hair involves various practices designed to promote its health and hydration, including oil treatments, limited heat styling, protective styles, regular trims, and avoiding chlorine or salt water sources.
Beautiful locks don’t happen by chance; they take hard work and dedication to maintain. Learn how you can achieve and sustain luxurious locks that look stunning from every angle.
Apply Oil
Applying oil to your locks can protect them from damage caused by regular washing and heat-styling tools, while simultaneously softening and conditioning them for better texture and shine.
Essential oils contain therapeutic benefits that can stimulate hair follicles to promote healthy hair growth, but it is essential that they are used responsibly so as to avoid irritation or other side effects.
Utilize an appropriate hair oil that suits your specific hair needs, such as coconut, jojoba or olive oil. Before applying the oil to ensure even distribution and absorption. Warming it helps penetrate even further into your scalp and strands allowing it to absorb faster. Regular oiling your locks also improves blood circulation as it stimulates growth while strengthening roots.
Trim Your Hair
Trimming your hair regularly is key to stimulating growth, maintaining healthy strands, and eliminating split ends from spreading further up the hair shaft, further damaging strands. Trimming can also prevent split ends from travelling up your shafts and creating further damage across all strands of hair.
Trimming damaged ends regularly will make your hair easier to manage, particularly if you have wavy or curly locks prone to tangles. A fresh trim can give your look more volume and vibrant shine!
Before trimming your hair, first wash it with a mild shampoo and ensure the ends of your locks are free from tangles. Once dry, use leave-in conditioner to lock in moisture and prevent frizzing. Moreover, always use sharp scissors or shears when cutting small sections at a time to avoid overcutting your locks.
Detangle Your Hair
Detangling is a crucial element of hair nourishment that helps reduce breakage. Tangles and knots prevent products like conditioners, moisturizers and styling products from reaching every strand for maximum hydration, nourishment and protection – regular detangling allows this process to happen optimally for maximum results.
Detangling should be approached with patience and gentleness to reduce damage and frustration. Be patient as you work your way slowly through tangles and knots using your fingertips or wide-toothed comb to loosen them gradually; avoid pulling or tugging as this could cause serious breakage of hair strands.
Make a point of detangling your hair at least once every week while it’s wet, both before and after shampooing/conditioning. Detangle during both stages!
Reduce Heat Styling
Heat is an invaluable tool when it comes to styling your hair, helping you achieve stunning looks like sleek straight locks, voluminous curls, or gorgeous waves. However, overuse of heat may cause issues like dryness, frizziness, and breakage that are detrimental to its use.
Heat-damaged hair may seem impossible to repair, but you can restore its vitality with regular deep conditioning treatments, protein treatments and nourishing oils.
Reducing the temperature of your heat-styling tools will also help mitigate damage, so consider using Arey’s Mend, an advanced heat protection formula designed to preserve the moisture in your hair and promote long-lasting shine. Its ingredients have been scientifically tested to help safeguard each strand against damage while promoting long-lasting shine and manageability.
Apply a Serum
Hair serum is an invaluable leave-in product that works to soothe strands, add hydration and protect locks against heat damage. A great serum also reduces frizz and keeps strands soft and manageable.
Serums differ from hair oils in that they have a lighter and waterier consistency, making them easier to apply both wet or dry. When applying it directly onto the scalp it’s best to place several drops on your palm first before spreading over your entire head to give the serum time to warm up and liquify allowing optimal absorption and distribution of its active ingredients.
Avoid applying serum to your roots as this could weight down your locks and cause build-up of oily build-up. Instead, focus on keeping mid-lengths and ends hydrated with this treatment.
