5 Tips on How to Make Your Hair Grow Faster

Many women become frustrated with their hair, when it grows at a slow pace. What you may not know is that there are several ways to boost your hair's growth! No expensive hair products are needed!

Tip #1

Cut down on using flat iron's, or curling iron's. Flat irons and curling irons damage your hair because they are so hot. If you use either of these things frequently, you will get split ends. If you have a large amount of split end's it makes it very hard for your hair to grow at all. If you love having your hair straight, or curly, there are other method's to achieve these hairstyles. For curly hair, you can scrunch your hair with scrunching gel. If you want straight hair you can use smoothing gel after you get out of the shower.

Tip #2
Load up on vitamin E! Vitamin E will cause your hair to grow much faster then normal. Vitamin E also strengthens your hair, and make your hair shiny. Vitamin E is essential if you want your hair to grow faster.

Tip #3
Believe it or not, if you cut your hair more often, it will make it grow faster! If you trim your hair 3 or 4 time's a year it will eliminate any split end's you may have had. Split end's only stop your hair from growing, so ridding your hair of split end's will speed up the growing process.

Tip#4
When you blow dry your hair, always use a thermal protector on your hair. Just like flat iron's, and curling iron's, blow dryers expose your hair to a lot of heat. If possible, you should always use the lowest heat setting on your blow dryer.

Tip #5
Massage your scalp! Not only do scalp massages feel great, it's a great way to make your hair grow faster! A scalp massage will increase blood circulation to your hair follicles, condition your scalp, and strengthen the roots of your hair! You can eithor massage your scalp yourself, or have someone else do it!

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Hair Glaze Treatment Basics

Hair shine is often an attribute many of us think of whenever we are asked to describe a beautiful, healthy hair. Although a good hair care routine can provide a gentle sheen, to really get commercial-style results, most of us need a little help. Find out more about hair glazes to see if this shine and color enhancing option appeals to you in any way.

The hair care industry abounds in hair treatments that promise to deliver superior results and get us closer to our desired look. One of the relatively recent hair treatments that promises to deliver a beautiful sheen is hair glaze, which can work for any hair type. Although hair glazes are often referred to as hair glosses, there is a slight difference between the two concepts. A gloss actually penetrates the hair cuticle and lasts for two to four weeks. A glaze, however, is simply coating the hair shaft and, as a result, it lasts less, usually only about a week or two.

Because even companies use the two terms interchangeably, selecting the right product for your needs can be quite a challenge. However, thinking about the results you plan on getting is a good place to start. If you are only looking for product that will add a gentle sheen to your locks, one of the safest choices is opting for clear glazes or glosses. On the other hand, if enhancing the color of your dyed tresses and making them more vibrant is your main concern, then a gloss or glaze with an appropriate semi-permanent color is probably the best choice.

Hair glazes can be applied either at home or at the salon. Although both options can work well, it might be useful to know that hair glazes that are meant to be used at home can have a higher concentration of peroxide or other lightening agents than those used in professional salons.

Therefore, applying hair glazes at home might leave the hair drier than those applied in the salon. Sticking with clear glazes if you prefer home treatments can be a safe alternative.

Although the color boosting and shine enhancing properties of hair glazes are undoubtedly impressive, analyzing a few possible drawbacks is also important in order to be able to make an informed decision.

Tinted color glazes can stain the scalp, the skin and/or the hair cuticle if used incorrectly. Also, like in the case of most products, certain ingredients might cause irritations. However, testing the product on a less visible hair strand can greatly reduce or even eliminate this risk.

Although hair glazes can extend the life of a permanent hair color significantly, it is recommended to be careful when it comes to using this hair treatment. When using tinted hair glazes, one effect might be more noticeable than another, depending on the health of the hair.
If you have a light hair shade, the colored tones will be more obvious compared to darker tones. The shine effect is generally more noticeable on darker shades.

The consistency of hair glazes might also be viewed as a slight disadvantage by those who have fine hair. The thick consistency can weight down the hair or even make it appear somewhat oily. However, this relatively trivial setback can be overcame by using volume boosting products.

As far as the application of hair glazes is concerned, it should be mentioned that it can vary depending on the brand chosen. Generally, however, hair glazes are applied on wet hair and left on for 10 to 20 minutes before rinsing them off. Hair glazes which are heat activated are also available. All in all, hair glazes can be a wonderful option you may use to enhance the beauty of your locks, if you make the right choice by keeping few important aspects in mind before making a purchase.

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Hair-raising truth about straighteners

• The hairstyle that’s a hard blow

London - According to a new survey, we are a nation wedded to our hair straighteners. A third of all women - and an astonishing one in five men - now own a pair. And more than a quarter refuse to leave the house without first ironing our hair into Jennifer Aniston-like smoothness.

But trichologists say that the damage caused by straighteners can actually make hair frizzier and curlier, setting up a “straightener addiction” cycle that can, eventually, cause hair to appear thin and dull.

Consultant Trichologist Iain Sallis (hairmedic.co.uk) is Britain’s only hospital-based trichologist with seven private clinics around the UK. He says, “I regularly see women panicking because their hair has apparently started to fall out. But in fact, their hair is just breaking off due to their straightener addiction.”

He explains how the invention of ceramic straighteners in the late Nineties ushered in a straight hair revolution overnight. Previously, straighteners had been steel-plated and took 20 minutes to reach an effective temperature, but the new material took less than one minute to reach more than 200c.

It’s the new technology, however, that created the real damage. Hair is very tough, but any heat over 180c will damage the cuticle of the hair - the hard outer protective coating on each strand.

Under the microscope, the cuticle looks like overlapping slates or scales. These should lie flat to provide a smooth, protective coating over the “cortex”, a twisted bundle of protein fibres which make up over 80 percent of the hair and give it its internal strength and flexibility.

“Think of each hair as an armour-plated twisted rope.”

Repeated straightening causes a breakdown in the cuticle. The “slates” start to lift and the rough, uneven surface exposes the cortex, allowing the fibres to unravel. This starts as split ends, but can reach all the way up the hair, causing it to break off.

Sallis says that straightener addiction starts when women use them regularly at a high heat. He explains: “Straighteners are easy to use, so women become reliant on them. But too much heat and inadequate protection makes hair dry and frizzy.

“Women control this new ‘frizz’ by straightening the hair even more, which dries and damages it further, causing yet more frizzing, which requires more straightening and so on. Surprisingly, my patients often do not link the increase in frizz with the use of straighteners, even when their hair starts to break off.”

He says that for safe straightening, it’s vital to turn down the heat. “Some straighteners reach over 220c, which is way beyond what hair can withstand. Keep your straighteners below 180c,” he warns.

He also cautions that using hair-care products wonÕt necessarily save your hair.

“I have heard so many times ‘it can’t be my straighteners, I always use a heat protection on my hair before I use them’. Don’t fall into that trap!” says Sallis. “Heat defence sprays are not a magic potion. They do reduce the damage, but the hair will still be affected if you use straighteners every day.”

Paolo Lai, the ‘Hair Healer’ at celebrity salon Neville Hair and Beauty, is an expert in restoring gloss to frazzled locks. He sees many straightener addicts in the salon and agrees that growing numbers of women are suffering side-effects.

“Many of my clients, especially those with coloured or highlighted hair, have found it becomes brittle and even breaks if straighteners are used too often,” he says.

So what should you do if your hair has been damaged?

Lai recommends putting your hair into rehab by taming frizz with an ultra-nourishing treatment. “I recommend Kerastase products such as Masque Intense, Forceintense and The Elixir Ultime to reconstruct your hair so you don’t feel the need to smooth it so much,” he says.

“If you spot frizz, get a trim instead of reaching for the straighteners. And to prevent more damage, use boar bristle brushes that don’t contain any metal prongs.”

Trichologist Philip Kingsley agrees conditioning is key.

“The best way to counteract damage is to use a deep conditioner before shampooing,” he says. “Work it into the hair with the fingertips, particularly the ends, leave it on for 20 minutes or so then wash it out with a moisturising shampoo and after-shampoo conditioner. Philip Kingsley Elasticizer or Elasticizer Extreme will work wonders.”

Elliot Bassila, Creative Director at the Nicky Clarke salon, recommends switching to a silk pillowcase from silkperfect.com to banish frizz .

“Sleeping on silk can help to prevent split ends while locking in the hair’s natural oils to leave your mane looking luscious.”

If you can’t give up your irons, Lai says that spending more on your straightener could save your hair.

“Pick one of the top-end hair straighteners, which has infra-red radiation produced from high-temperature ceramic plates or ones coated in the precious stone tourmaline. These can help seal the moisture in your hair,” he advises.

Hairstylist Jack Howard of Equus hair adds: “Only use your straighteners on blow-dried hair, and never on wet hair. Avoid going over the same area twice. Try not to straighten right to the tips as this is the most fragile part of the hair.”

New smoothing treatments include the Brocato “Curl Interrupted” super gentle treatment using keratin (the protein which is found in hair, skin and nails) which lasts for up to 12 weeks.

There is also LLT (Long Lasting Treatment) by the inventors of the first permanent Japanese straightening system, Yoko. This cross between a conditioner and straightener takes just 15 minutes to apply and contains collagen and keratin. It leaves hair looking full but groomed and lasts up to four weeks.

Jack Howard at Equus says: “With these treatments you can have a sleek look with minimal blow drying which can end your addiction to daily straightening.”

And if you need more encouragement, style gurus say that the era of flattened hair is over. The biggest buzz in hair styling gadgets is the Babyliss Big Hair styler, a combination of brush and hairdryer which gives smooth but volumised hair. The catwalks of London Fashion Week last month were full of bouncy blow-outs and curls.

Top session stylist Stephen Lowe says that the most stylish heads will be going cold-turkey on their hair irons this summer.

“Waves have definitely been tumbling down the catwalk this season. For the most fashionable look, you should say goodbye to poker-straight hair and instead embrace beautiful healthy hair with movement,

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