Tip 12: Drink Water and Eat Healthy

So this tip is rather straight forward. Like the title says, drink water and eat healthy, drinking water helps moisturize hair and skin. Eating healthy will also help your hair and skin. Your body is all connected somehow, if you are eating healthy, drinking healthy and getting enough exercise you should have a healthy weight, a clear face, healthy hair etc. I mean there are some exceptions and conditions but learning to eat and drink healthy is a great start to strengthening your hair. If you're noticing really dry hair then drinking 8 cups of water a day can help you get a bit more moisture in your hair. Also homemade hair masks are kind of linked to that because they're putting the nutrients in the foods directly on your hair instead of inside your body, then used by your body and then a bit is used towards your hair. I'll post a direct link to my hair mask blog post, so feel free to check that out. For further questions on specific foods you should eat for healthier hair just comment or e-mail me at damagebegone@hotmail.com and if you want me to make a post about it I can do that too.

http://damagebegone.blogspot.ca/2012/08/tip-7-hair-masks.html

Tip 11: Letting Your Hair Dry Naturally vs. Blow Drying

First and foremost, please do know that in the side poll at the blog, the 'light brow' is supposed to be 'light brown' as I'm sure you assumed. Sorry about that but because people have already voted I cannot change the spelling. So as you all already know if you've read my blog at all I am very against heat on hair and avoided it a bunch. But here's a question that I've seen come up a couple of times. This is the question. "What is more damaging, straightening or blow drying?" or "If I don't blow dry it I have to go over one piece of hair with a straightener more than once but if I do blow dry I don't have to straighten each piece more than once, which is better?". So here is my answer. Although I am no professional hair dresser or anything this is partly my opinion. I personally think that blow drying is a lot less damaging than straightening. Here's why, a blow dryer generally doesn't get as hot as a straightener would, so that's already a good thing, but that also depends what heat you have your straightener at. But also the heat is not being applied directly to your hair, I mean yes it's blowing heat on your hair directly but its not like a hot plate TOUCHING your hair. If that makes sense. Also if your blow dryer has a 'cool' setting be sure to use it. Because cool= less damaging than heat, as you probably already know. So in my opinion if blow drying your hair will reduce the amount of straightening you need to do, then you should do that. But before you blow dry your hair, although I believe it's less damaging you should still spray in a heat protectant, wait for it to dry and THEN blow dry your hair. Hope this answered your questions. If you have further questions regarding this subject or anything else about your hair, feel free to e-mail me at damagebegone@hotmail.com
-Ashley