10 Ways to Get Healthier Hair

How to Get Healthy Hair

1. Cut down on bleach or dying your hair.

One sure-fire way to get healthy hair fast is to stop dying it. Bleach and hair dye strips your hair. Those intense chemicals are damaging and they’ll turn your shiny healthy locks into frayed and damaged. One way to cut down on how often you dye your hair is by going ombre. Ombre hair will allow you to embrace your roots and skip a few of those hair dye sessions.  

2. Put down the heat tools.

We all already know this rule, but it is a hard one to follow! Find heatless styling guides and use them to style your tresses rather than using heat tools. Get started with my heatless curls tutorial!  

3. Deep condition your hair once weekly.

Nothing will help your hair faster than a good deep conditioning treatment. If your hair is dry and damaged, try to maintain a deep conditioning routine to help improve the look and feel of your hair.  I have found keeping up this  “TLC retreat” treatment weekly has helped my hair become more manageable, less knotted and healthier.  

4. Lose the shampoo.

Shampoo dries out your hair and will damage it if you have fragile or damaged hair. Instead, try a Cleansing Conditioner, my personal favourite is the Macadamia Cleansing Conditioner. Cleansing conditioners will clean your strands without the damaging drying effect of shampoos.  

5.  Buy a doughnut bun.

I cannot express enough how much these doughnut buns have helped to improve the condition of my hair. How it’s helped is that on days when my hair is unruly (ahem, most days) instead of struggling with heat tools I can quickly and easily tuck my hair into a sock bun. Doughnut buns are a great way to have daily professional hair without any damage.  

6. Air dry your hair.

Whenever you can, let your hair air dry or allow it to dry almost entirely (around 80%) and then use your blow dryer on warm heat rather than hot.  

7. Say goodbye to split ends

If you have split ends the best way to get rid of them is to chop them off. If you’re trying to grow out your hair, it may sound counterproductive to get your hair trimmed but actually it’ll help prevent your hair from becoming fragile and damaged so that it can actually grow longer rather than breaking off. I trim my own hair but if you’re nervous to do that yourself then just schedule an appointment with your hairdresser.   

8. Use a hot oil treatment after dying your hair

When you’re dying your hair, especially lightening it, you’re putting it through a damaging process and afterwards, you should give it a little recovery TLC. Typically when you go into the salon your hair will be dyed, dried and styled so when it comes around to the day when you need to wash it, try using a hot oil treatment on it.  Oiling your hair is basically the same as deep conditioning your hair but it’s a bit more intensive; you want to allow the oil to sit in your hair for as long as possible to really condition and strengthen your hair, I like to leave it in for about an hour, or sometimes even overnight. My personal favourite treatment is this coconut oil + peppermint mixture that promotes growth & health. *you may need to wash your hair twice with shampoo to get all the oil out afterwards**  

9. Use a leave-in treatment.

A leave-in hair treatment is something you use your hair once you’re out of the shower. You add the treatment to your damp hair to help eliminate tangles and reduce long-term damage. I use the Macadamia Natural Oil Nourishing Leave-In to keep my hair smooth & tangle-free.  

10. Invest in a good serum.

Applying serum to your hair daily will help keep it looking smooth while also adding in a bit of hydration to damaged or fragile strands.  My personal favourites are the Macadamia Natural Oil Healing Serum & the Moroccan Oil Serum.