Tips for
Keeping Long Hair Healthy
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Handle gently, especially when
its wet
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Don’t “wring” the water out of it
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Don’t rub it in a towel to dry (friction breaks the
hair)
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Keep
it braided when outdoors, saturate the braid with conditioner
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Use
a satin pillowcase so the hair slides
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Protect it from the sun and wind
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Never
use a brush, only a wide toothed comb and very gently
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Don’t
use chemicals on it
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Don’t
apply heat to it
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Follow directions for Washing Long Hair: Before washing, comb it down
with only a wide toothed comb. Let it hang down long through the washing
process. Do not pile it on your head. Shampoo the scalp and let the shampoo
and water run down through the ends. Do the same for conditioner and rinsing.
Gently wrap in a towel to pat dry, leaving it down long. Finger comb gently
without pulling. Let dry naturally out of the wind before combing with a wide
toothed comb.
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Colour
It Naturally: There are three herbs you
can use to colour your hair. All are available at Amazon. All will deep
condition your hair as well as colour it.
- Cassia /Senna:
Deep conditions and adds yellow/gold highlights – Only colours gray
and very blond hair, but deep conditions any hair
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Indigo: permanent black hair dye and deep conditioning.
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Henna: For Permanent red colour and deep
conditioning. ONLY use natural 100% henna. Never buy a “henna hair colour”
box from the drug store. Those contain metals and dyes that can react to
other things you use on your hair and give you very unexpected results. Use
only 100% BAQ (Body Art Quality) henna. On the plus side, it will give you
permanent, natural looking red colour that doesn’t fade and deep condition
your hair. Henna penetrates the hair shaft to make it stronger. Warning: Henna
is very permanent! Be Sure! You cannot remove it, colour over it
or bleach it out. Trying to remove it will ruin your hair. Your only choice
to be something other than a red head, is to let it grow out and cut it off.
NOTE: Any of these three above can be mixed
together. Frequently mixed is henna and cassia for a less intense red colour.
Indigo and henna are mixed together for a very dark, reddish brown/black.
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