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Lockdown 2.0 - Care to Hair the Natural way?

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 November 2020, and we are not quite where we would like to be! Lockdown version 2.0 was hardly on our Xmas wish-list, and abiding by the rules certainly is not easy but we are all doing our best to pull through and get rid of this second wave. ...and talking about waves, with Hair Salons closed for the next few weeks, lockdown does present the perfect opportunity to reconcile with your natural texture.  But with most of us having to deal with zoom calls on a regular basis while working from home, how can you make sure you are more curly goddess than Guurl what's zat?  Curls and natural texture in general need to be handled as minimally as possible during styling to reduce frizz. Gentle scrunch drying is a good way to do it, but your best friend should most certainly be the diffuser . The Diffuser really is an under-rated piece of technology - the bowl-shaped attachment disperses the air flow from the hair dryer, helping dry your curls more evenly and gently, helping the ...

Caring for yourself and your aging hair.

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A woman reaches a certain age, and more often than not she is very likely to cut her hair short. But the question is: Is it because she wants to, or is it because it is what is expected of her? As we age our hair ages too, we can't escape that.. But what are the signs of aging hair? Firstly, It loses pigment! Those annoying grays! the reason for your first mild heart attack - the realization that your body is actually physically telling you:  you are getting older! Technically all that is really happening is that we are losing Melanin pigment , which is what gives our skin and hair its colour. Melanin is also what we get from the sun while sun-bathing - but sadly that does not effect our hair. As we loose that pigment the hair also tends to become finer and the regrowth slows down, which is why it feels like we go from a full head of hair to half the amount - which is also the reason why we can never seem to be able to go longer than a certain point. These a...