How to Shampoo Hair the Right Way
Washing your hair can have damaging effects on it and on your scalp if you don't shampoo correctly. Discover what you may have missed and find out how to shampoo hair the right way . "Lather, Rinse, Repeat" seem like simple enough instructions, but some people either use too much shampoo or they simply don't apply it correctly. Find out how each step of the shampooing process really works.Lathering Correctly When you reach for the shampoo, you should start with a dime-sized quantity. Don't even try to apply it evenly on your hair, the first ...
Coarse Hair Tips
The texture of our hair as well as the thickness of the hair follicle are the factors that determine our hair type. Coarse hair, which is predominant among African American people has a thickness of 100 microns compared to a normal hair type which only has about 90 microns. Although the scalp produces more protective oils than for other types of hair, the tight curls characteristic for this hair type prevent an even distribution of this protective oils, making the hair drier and brittle. As a result many people have difficulty growing long h...
How to Get Hair Extension Glue Out of Hair
Hair extensions are a great way to add volume and length to the hair. There are several types of hair extensions available nowadays such as weaved in, clipped in, metal clamped, glued on, braided in. Gluing hair extensions is done by fusing the natural hair with the hair extensions using a protein glue. The hair strands are separated from the rest of the hair with plastic templates. The hair will be inserted in the hole of the plastic template to isolate the hair for a more precise bonding. Each hair extension is attached to the nat...
Frequent Hair Care Mistakes
When it comes to the most frequent hair care mistakes, everything starts with the fact that most of us don't know our hair type. This is the starting point for numerous hair disasters. There are, for example, many women who believe that they have coarse hair, when in fact their hair is fine but thick. Therefore, they start using the wrong products that can give an oily aspect to their hair. This type of mistakes are made pretty often because women rarely ask the hairdresser questions about the hair. In order to avoid damaging your hair, you...
Eva Mendes Covers Marie Claire March 2012
Eva Mendes heats up Marie Claire's March 2012 issue. The 37-year-old strikes a sultry pose and surrenders to the femme fatale style of screen siren Sophia Loren. In the accompanying interview, Eva dishes on working with Ryan Gosling, her idols, but she also reveals some of her secrets for sexy hair, bombshell body and glowing skin. In her latest film, the art-house indie 'Girl in Progress', Mendes plays a single mom who is so wrapped up in her own life that she fails to see that her chess-champ teenager is turning into a party girl. "She's a...