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.

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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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.

For example going from your natural color or an already bleached blonde then quickly to a dark color then back again to dyed blonde in a short space of time will pretty much guarantee that you will be having problems with your hair after all of that.

Commonly it will result in regular breakage of your hair, it really dries out your hair making it harder to manage and the extra effort needed to try and get your hair looking acceptable means further strain and stress and before you know it you have a frustrating situation that will take some time to get back to normal.

Although there are hair repair products available these will often not be enough if your hair is extremely damaged, they can help you a bit so that your hair wont look so dried out but once you take your hair to a certain state of damage it often becomes beyond repair and can often require you to get a shorter cut and then a long break from any hair dye so that your hair gets a chance to recover properly.

When dying your hair, be aware of the potential damage that can occur that will at times take months for your hair to begin to recover from.

With the hair often being finer at the front and if you happen to suffer from frizzy hair at all you can sometimes notice the front of your hair drying out almost too quickly, and if your trying to get straightening cream or something similar applied to your hair while its still holding some moisture you can find yourself struggling to get it on quick enough before that front hair starts to already look dried out.

Its not always easy to turn down the heating when its extremely cold outside and your trying to stay warm and comfortable in your home, but if you have just come out of a shower or bath theres a chance that you will already be feeling a bit warmer anyway.

If you can turn down your heating possibly about an hour or so before you plan to wash your hair, so that the rooms dont go cold but that the temperature is lower and that you dont have such a build up of dry heat in the room then you will find that you have extra time to work with your hair before areas of your hair start drying out.

You then get a chance to apply your hair products without rushing, possibly avoiding pulling on the length of your wet hair so much, which is always best avoided.

Its well known that heat can be damaging to the hair, that is heat applied directly, but of course when it comes to drying and styling your hair then room heat and too much of it can become an annoyance when your trying to get your hair looking just how you want it to.

And when you think of the combination of that heat, when you combine the heat from the room, with possible use of a hair dryer and maybe straighteners too, its all a lot of heat exposure for your hair to deal with over a short space of time.

Dont freeze at home during the cold days and evenings though, im in no way suggesting that you deprive yourself of heat, nice looking hair but with a streaming head cold wont look so good but just controlling the heat in your home for hair drying and styling times can make your efforts more manageable and satisfying.

Sometimes a person may play with their hair, twisting it and bending it, possibly through nervousness or even just boredom but too much of this can result in avoidable damage and again its something that can spread oils along the strands and as a result the hair looks greasier than it normally would.

Its normal to have to sweep your hair out of the way of your face with your fingers or possibly to pass your fingers through an area of your hair to settle it and prevent tangling and doing this a few times in the day is fine but if you are regularly playing with your hair, possibly even pulling at it and stretching it then you may be constantly doing damage to it and dulling the look of your hair by spreading sweat and bacteria picked up by your hands onto the hair.

Try to resist as much as you can, the need to touch your hair, unless absolutely neccessary, if it is done purely out of habit then you need to try and break that habit, it may not be easy at first because you may not even realise that you are doing it half of the time.

And one other important tip to avoid damage is to not chew on your hair, a repulsive thought for some but again a bad habit for others.

Heat to an extent can be fine for the hair, but when you are styling regularly and are using a hair dryer as well as straighteners or curling tongs then before long you can start to see damage taking place and understandably you may not want to use the straighteners any less than you do and may depend on them quite a lot and if your pressed for time then naturally a hair dryer helps speed thengs up when your needing to get your hair dried on time.

Any chance that you can though, even if its just after every few washes you should try and take as much of the excess moisture from your hair naturally with a towel, leave it in place and let it do the work for you, and any straightening creams that will make the job easier for you and mean less time needed of the straighteners actually touching your hair will make a difference.

Even when your washing your hair, if you can keep the temperature of the water slightly lower, not cold or lukewarm, theres no need to be uncomfortable, but not so hot that it feels too hot against your face, the water temperature should be comfortable enough so that you dont feel too much heat on your face when it touches.

When using a hair dryer you can turn down the heat but if turning down the heat means having to hold the dryer to your hair for longer then it may be equally as bad and not make a difference, also using way too much of a straighening creame may gunge up your hair so much that again it takes longer for the hair dryer to penetrate its way through the hairs, especially round the back where your hair may be thicker and so you end up holding the dryer to your hair for longer.

Its about getting a balance with the use of styling tools as well as the creams, serums and any other products that you use.

Half way through drying your hair with a hair dryer, stop and leave your hair to cool down for about a minute, then use clean hands to touch your hair, especially around the back and sides to see where the hair is mostly dried and where it may still be damp, by doing this you avoid over drying an area of your hair that could dry it out too much and make your hair prone to breakage.

Also some areas of your hair where you have applied a product can clump your hair together where it may look like it is still wet, touch it after letting it cool down and brush it through, you will soon know if your hair in that area is still really wet and in need of further drying.

If your hair does become damaged through excessive heat from regular styling you can always repair your hair slowly but its much better if you can prevent the damage from hapenning in the first place.