Q&A for How to Look After Your Hair

A balanced diet and plenty of water optimizes your hair's growth potential. Hair also grows faster in the summer months.

Be gentle with your hair. Comb only with a wide-tooth comb when your hair is wet. Avoid heat styling and keep chemical treatments to a minimum. Get regular trims to keep split ends in check.

Use a high quality shampoo and conditioner designed for your hair type. Avoid heat styling and chemical treatments when possible and get a trim every 6-8 weeks.

Make sure you're drinking plenty of water throughout the day and getting the right nutrients in your food. This will keep your hair healthy, strong, and shiny.

Consider letting your hair air dry next time. That way, it will look fuller and you’ll be able to do styles such as a bun without it looking too thin. The heat from the blow dryer helps stretch and straighten your hair, making it less voluminous for you.

Use natural products on your damaged and dry hair, such as: coconut oil, almond oil, and Moroccan oil. Stay away from products that contain silicons and sulfates.

Eat healthy foods and don't use chemicals or heat that may damage it.

Split ends won't magically disappear. Trimming is the only way to stop them from worsening and splitting your hair along the strand. Coconut oil hair masks can help, but they are not as effective as a trim.

This article should help: how to get soft hair without trying .

Try smoothing your hair with a dryer sheet. Fold the sheet around a section of your hair and run in a downward motion. You can also use a very small amount of lotion to defrizz your hair.

Wash your hair with cold water at the end of your shower and sleep with a silk pillowcase.

It could be age, stress or eating unhealthy foods.

It depends on a lot of factors. Generally, air drying is better because it doesn't expose your hair to harsh heat. However, air drying takes longer and can cause hair to dry in a different style (like curly instead of wavy or vice versa), so you may need to blow dry your hair instead.

Every two days is fine. If you would like to apply it every day, it won't do any harm, but it's not necessary.

When I'm in a pinch - or when my hair really, really needs some TLC - I use baby oil on dry ends to give them a boost. They become softer, glossier and healthier looking. Just make sure you don't apply baby oil directly to your hair, which can weigh it down and make it verge on greasy. Apply a tiny bit to a reusable makeup pad or some tissue, and allow it to absorb some. Pull your hair through the lightly soaked pad/tissue. Finally, let the baby oil soak into your hair a little bit, then style normally.

I would recommend applying the oil first and letting it soak on your hair for a while before rinsing it out. If you put the oil in at the end of your shower, it could leave your hair looking greasy.

No. Generally, hair is prone to breakage and damage if you brush it after you shower. Instead, gently comb through your hair with your fingers to detangle it. Then, if you'd like, you can brush through it with a comb (not a regular brush).

Trimming helps to keep damage at bay. It doesn't encourage hair growth, but it helps you maintain healthy hair. The more healthy hair you can retain, the less you will have to trim, and the faster you'll get to your desired length.

If you want a heavy hair mask, you can mix together a banana or avocado for the base of moisture and an oil of choice (olive, almond, coconut, grapeseed, avocado, etc) for helping to seal in the moisture. If you choose to you can add essential oils (lavender, peppermint, tea tree, rosemary). You can apply the moisture base first and then the oils separately. Or you can combine them in one mask. Either way you will need to at least blend the moisture base for easy application. You can apply once a week.

Yes, it's actually better to apply oil on wet hair. Oil is a sealer. It's supposed to seal in water for longer moisture retention.

Follow the methods in Thicken Your Hair .

You'll find helpful advice in Undo a Knot in Your Hair and Prevent Hair from Knotting .

Although they are advertised as hair, skin and nail gummies, it's the vitamins in the gummies that help. So yes, I would say that they do help, just look and see what vitamins are inside to find out if they are right for you.