Hair Care
Matching Your Facial Features With A Hair Style
You often hear and read suggestions over the years about how certain styles will suit certain face shapes, whether round, square, oval, long faced or something in between, but it’s not to say that just because you get a cut that is thought of as suitable to a face shape that it will somehow magically work for you because you happen to have a particular face shape.
There are so many differences in facial features that can make a style work well with a face shape or not work that well at all, so even though you might think that a certain style will be more suited because you face is round, square or long and because you have seen someone else with a similar shaped faced looking good with that style, it wont necessarily be ideal for yourself.
Everything from hair color and the condition of your hair, to skin tone, the shape of your eyes, length of your nose, your lips, basically every part of your face can make a difference to the overall look.
Of course one of the ways of finding out what styles work well for you and compliment your facial features is by experimentation and while opting for different styles over time, it can be a good idea not to go from one extreme to another, sometimes working gradually towards a much shorter cut or a longer style can give you a glimpse of how you may look if you continue in one direction.
As with a bad hair cut, especially if you go for a very different length and look than you’re normally used to, it can leave you feeling quite fed up if you have to wait months to get it looking somewhere near acceptable for you again and even though the style that you went for at the time seemed so perfect in your expectations because you know your own face shape, it’s suprising how disappointing the result can be when you realise afterwards that the face shape is not always enough for that certain hair style to look really great.
Take everything into account when attempting to match a hair style to your facial features and overall face shape, include everything, like your hair color including the current color and a possible new color as part of the style.
Washing Your Hair Two Days In A Row
As each persons hair is different from the next and because some hair products may provide the desired results but at the loss of something else like leaving the hair feeling too heavy, stripped, limp, unnaturally coated or the hair becomming greasy too quickly it can be a bit of a challenge at times to find a good combination where you use a hair product right for you and where you can find a balance with the amount of washing and conditioning needed for your hair.
Other things that will affect this are any other products that you might use on your hair for treatments, protection and also styling, they can add weight and coating to your hair or sometimes one might undo the good work and result that your conditioner might have provided you with.
For some women, the thought of not washing their hair daily will horrify them, and often this is not just because of personal preference but because their hair type seems to demand it.
While others might find that daily washing is just too much and does no favours for them at all.
For those that dont require daily hair washing, they can still find that washing it two days in a row does not work so well for them, it’s like that second day is just too soon for them and they need a day in between before washing it again.
But this still might not work out right and you find yourself not quite satisfied as the two days in a row of washing it seems too much but yet the waiting a day in between washing might mean your hair is already beginning to look and feel greasy.
In this type of situation, what have you found working best for you?
A part of you may just go for washing it the very next day and try and deal with the harshness of that or you might have found some way of working this situation where you are not over washing it but not reaching the point where you have already started to feel that its due a wash.
Does your hair react too much if it’s washed two days in a row?
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Damaged Hair Cant Be Repaired
As most women will know, hair damage and trying to keep it to an absolute minimum is not easy, if you want a certain style and that style requires you to go through a process in order to acheive it then it can be very difficult to avoid damaging your hair over time.
With various actions contributing to hair damage, like the effects of heat on hair and touching your hair too much, it’s easy to see that it doesn’t take a lot for the damage to build up and at times you may not even realise that certain things that you’re doing are damaging your hair at the time.
With so many hair products available, from cheap to very expensive ones, it’s sometimes easy to get into this frame of mind where you might think to yourself that even if your hair does become quite damaged, that you dont have to worry and that some super treatment and repair product will sort it for you.
Too often there can be the feeling of “not to worry” because it can be sorted but the reality and old saying of “prevention is better than the cure” holds true and proves why it’s always better in the long run to prevent the problem occurring in the first place.
The reality is that any hair product that claims to be able to repair and fix those problems that you’re having because of long term damage that is gradually getting worse, cant actually repair your hair.
What those products can do is coat your hair, they can sleek and smooth it down, tame it and make it more manageable, they can make the strands of hair look better, look healthier and this gives the look and possibly even the feel to you that your hair is now repaired, or at least going through a repair process because of this visual improvement during the use of a repair product.
But hair, once damaged cant be repaired, and even though a company may claim that their product will help build a barrier against further damage, it cant.
Basically what is happening is that for as long as you keep using the product, it will keep taming the strands, showing less of the damage but your hair is most likely still being damaged, it’s just that everytime you use the so called repair product that it at least looks better to you.
Whether you buy one of the cheaper products or the more expensive products in the hope of repairing hair damage, neither will actually be repairing it, sure the expenive product might make it look even better, have it looking gorgeously smooth and feeling great, but underneath that coating and treatment you still have hair strands that are damaged.
This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t buy the products that can improve the look of your damaged hair, just that you are aware that no matter which of these repair products that you use, that you will only be improving the look of the hair and not fixing any damage to it and that aside from using the products, you need to work at lowering the chances for damage to your hair as well as trying to improve the strength and overall health of your hair.
