hair care, beauty & mindful lifestyle
Retouching your new growth at home needs to be done with care, proper care! Let me start of saying; if you don’t feel comfortable with relaxing your hair yourself, please go seek a professional.
I prefer to retouch my new growth every 15 – 20 weeks. The stretching period is based on how I feel and how I can manage my new growth.
This is how the process looks like when you are relaxing your hair by yourself.
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How often you shampoo your relaxed hair depends on how much product you use in between washes and how oily your hair/scalp gets. The most given advice is to wash your hair at least once a week, but don’t go longer than 2 weeks.
A shampoo is needed to get your scalp and hair clean. The main purpose of a shampoo is to remove dirt, oil and smell.
To keep your scalp clean, refreshed and promote hair growth it’s important to be consistent with your washdays. I prefer to wash my hair once a week.
I moisturize my hair almost every day and use gel to style my hair. To nurture my scalp, I use an scalp oil 3 times a week.
You can imagen how my hair looks and feel after a week. My hair looks dull because of the product build-up. Also adding products to a dirty hair will not benefit my hair, because of the amount of product that is already on the hair.
[1] Analysis for yourself how your hair looks after a week. Is your hair still looking fresh or is it lifeless screaming for a wash? Also the amount of product that you use will let you know how often you need to wash your hair.
[2] Based on your lifestyle, pick a day you will dedicate to wash your hair. Having a specific day will help with being consistent. My washday is on Saturday, even my friends know this. I like to start washday in de mornings.
If you are interested to shampooing your hair twice a week, make sure that your spread your wash days. For example, my standard day is Saturday right. But when I decided to shampoo my hair during the week, I like to do that on Wednesday.
Shampooing your scalp and hair is necessary! Your hair will not be fabulous when it’s dirty, clogged and oversaturated.
Make washing your hair a priority and see how your hair will thank you for it.
Everybody experiences hair growth in a different way. For some they don’t have any problems to grow out their hair. But their others that can have some difficulties in achieving healthy hair growth.
Growing healthy hair can be hinder caused by different factors. I purposely add the word healthy in growing hair, because the health of your scalp plays an important part in having healthy hair growth.
Your scalp is the foundation to having healthy hair. That is why tips that I’m sharing are important to incorporate in your hair care routine.
I wanted to share a detailed deep condition routine. Deep conditioning is crucial when it comes to getting and maintaining your hair in a healthy condition.
For this week wash I decided to start my routine with an oil pre-poo treatment. It’s been a while that I have done this treatment, and to be honest my hair needs it.
An oil pre-poo trdeatment is a great way to protect your scalp and hair from the shampoo that your are about to use. What do I mean? A shampoo is great to get your scalp and hair clean, but sometimes can be a bit harsh. So the treatment can be used to hold on the moisture on your scalp & hair.
Another reason why I like an oil pre-poo treatment is the way how it softens and add shine to my hair.
I start of with applying an oil mixture to my scalp. This is a mixture of carrier and essential oils. Great way to stimulate blood flow on your scalp. On the length of my hair I use a mixture of carrier oils.
In small sections I coat my hair with the oil. Make sure that your hair is not dripping in oil.
After applying the oils, I take the time to massage my scalp and give my ends some extra love. When I’m done, I cover my hair with a plastic cab and let the oil sit for 30 minutes to a hour.
“Shine bright like a diamond”
When I’m done with the treatment, my hair is soft and shiny. I proceed with washing and deep conditioning my hair.
What I also have noticed is that I have less breakage while shampooing my hair.
The oil pre-poo treatment is an extra step, but a step I don’t mind, because of the benefits that comes with it.
Are you familiar with this process and if so, how do you incorporate it in your regimen?