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It is not always easy to get the right and suitable hair color. In fact, it may take several experiments by changing the hair color until you find a hair stylist who is good at hair coloring. So, if your hair already found its ‘soul mate’, then it’s time for you to know the latest tricks to treat it, so your hair will always be healthy and shiny. Wash your hair with cold water.

It is not easy or cheap to get hair color with beautiful highlight. So, treat your hair like it is your new favorite thing, with special attention. Avoid washing your hair 24 hours after coloring. Do not use hot water to wash your hair as this will further open the hair cuticle and reducing its humidity.

Maintain its moist, the colored hair tends to be dry. So, always remember to put hair conditioner after you wash in order to prevent it becoming dry and broken. Long lasting color, is the color easily faded? Do not worry, maintain the color with color enhancer that contain conditioner. This product contains a dye, so make sure you choose the right color.

After washing the hair with shampoo, smear the color enhancer. Leave it for 5-10 minutes, and then wash it again. For its sparkling color, use a special lotion to hair after washing the hair. This lotion is the same as conditioner, but its special function not to dampen it, but covering the hair so the color remains beautiful and shiny.

Every woman must dream to have shiny and beautiful hair, but it is not enough when the hair is not healthy. The problem that is usually experienced is hair loss. There are many things that cause hair loss, but there are also many ways to prevent and repair the damage.

Aware of hair loss as early as possible would be much better, because you can anticipate it for getting worse. Usually the hair loss can be seen when you are combing and washing the hair. That’s because the follicles already fragile, so the hair will fall out easily when it dragged.

To prevent that hair loss, let us refer to several points below: Avoid combing your hair when it’s wet, dry it with a towel so the hair will not be soaking but do not wrap it with a towel, just let the hair dry by itself. When combing your hair, use a scarce tooth comb to prevent hair loss from its fragile follicle. But you must remember, do not use hairdryer during this treatment, because it will damage its humidity.

After the hair dries, you should not bind or pinch it, because it will affect the growth. Just loose it. When you travel to a place and the weather is hot, you should use an umbrella or a scarf to avoid direct sunlight. Because the sting will make your scalp sweaty and affect on its humidity.

It’s not only women who value their hair as a crown. Men are begun to worry when they have baldness and gray hair. Do not worry about this because it can still be prevented by maintaining the hair intensively and proper from earlier to slow down the process of gray hair and abnormal hair loss. Maintain natural oil content that contained on the scalp. Excessive oil content would only clog up the oil channels to the follicle.

Meanwhile, having less natural oil content will cause your scalp become dry. So in order to maintain the oil content on the scalp, you should recognize the type of shampoo that is appropriate and suitable with the condition of your hair and scalp.

Try the scalp massage therapy such as hair spa or cream bath as an alternative to make the hair become healthier. This therapy is said will slow down the process of gray hair and excessive hair loss. Traditional therapies by using natural ingredients, like aloe vera, rice straw, and ginseng are also very necessary for preventing hair loss and early gray hair.

Nutritious food is also important to ensure proper nutrition for healthy hair. There are some important nutrients that should be notice for getting strong and healthy hair, such as protein, vitamin A, vitamin B complex (vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, biotin, folic acid), zinc, iron, copper, iodine, and inositol.

The gray hair which appears at young age is because genetic factors or genes. Gray hair occurs because the pigment does not exist anymore. On Asians, they have a hair pigment that is called eomelanin. Because pigment eomelanin colored dark or black, then it is not only the skin, but hair is also colored dark. In addition there are some people whose bodies can not produce pigment. For example in the case of albinism (albio) and vitiligo. So that their hair can not even be colored black.

Nutritional deficiencies can also lead to reduce the levels of pigments. So that the hair will become blond and white, gray. In addition, someone who suffering from anemia pernicious immunological disease, which is the type of anemia that can cause gray hair. Last is the using of chemical substances, such as hair dye or using shampoo that containing many high sulfur.

Prevention. Do not use the hair dye too often. Especially if your scalp is sensitive, because this condition can trigger contact dermatitis or eczema on your scalp. Use a shampoo that doesn’t have too much alkali (too frothy) which only made the hair gets too dry. Better if you are using hair conditioner separately.