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Having a long hair means to have endless styling possibilities. And not only. You can choose form several haircuts to find the one that suits you. It can be shaped according to the hair type so that the flaws will be hidden and the feminine features of the face will get emphasized. Here are the most popular ones, have a look and choose the one that’s best for you!

Layered Hairstyles

This hairstyle is the most popular long hairstyle at the moment. Layered hairstyles are the best if you like curls. It has a nice texture and it’s easy to fix because of the shape that already has the movement. It is the hairstyle that matches perfectly with side swept bangs, to straight or curly hair. The layered hairstyle provides an elegant look, by creating volume and matching any personality. Chopped layers or classic ones, the hairstyle is feminine and glamorous either way.

Asymmetrical Haircuts

The asymmetrical haircuts add edginess to the everyday look. It needs a high maintenance and a perfect hair colorist to get the best results. The asymmetrical cuts have to be kept extra straight to be just as came out of a saloon. But the big fuss it’s worth it. The edgy asymmetrical hairstyle grabs the attention and expresses a strong and wild personality. The styling options are endless, each haircut being so different by the one before that each of them are unique in any single way. It is the opportunity that the hairdresser can leave his imagination free and make something really radical. If you need a big change, want a fun but sophisticated look, get this haircut and you’ll get the best style you could wish for.

Retro Haircuts

The retro haircuts are back in style, even if that is with a little modern twist. How to get it? Simple. Just add some pin curls, and your hair is ready to get nostalgic. It can be left loose, or pinned up in a faux bob to get the most glamorous look. The good part is, that having a long hairstyle will help get any retro hairstyle you want to, while maintaining mostly the same haircut. Anyone can get a retro haircut, just figure out which one matches your facial features and personality.

Classic Straight Haircuts

The classic straight haircuts are simple, yet elegant hairstyles that are perfect for business women. It doesn’t need any commitment, but it is a high maintenance haircut. The classic hairstyles need regular straightening, and regular cuts to refresh it. Also, classic means natural. So even if you need to use styling products, make it look natural. And for the best of your hair, keep it loose.

The Shag Haircut

The shag haircut, is a choppy style that is recommended for busy women, because of its low maintenance character. These haircuts are mainly straight and very versatile, with layers and highlights or lowlights, to make it stand out. Styled in a funky look or simply worn as an everyday hairstyle, the shag haircut adds volume to your hair and most of the times features side swept bangs.

Lisa Rinna’s Layered Stacked Hairstyle

The popularity of braids, dreadlocks, add on hair / wigs, weaves, natural hair styles, and hair extensions with or without glue is exploding.

The key importance and selling point for the Take Down removal cream is that it is an oil based cream. This key factor allows women to transition easily from wearing braids to a relaxer in the same day.

Most women of color assume that after removing braids or extensions they have to wait 1 week in order to relax or straighten their hair, but because Take Down is a cream- not a spray. and is an oil based product.

It protects the scalp and hair so that a chemical relaxer can be used. Most people or stylists donâ??t have the time or patience to remove fusion, braids, dreadlocks, weaves or hair extensions the right way. And the average consumer goes to the salon to undo or â??take downâ? a style.

And if the hair stylist does not have proper understanding of how to remove any of these styles, they just pull and tug, which ultimately damages their clientâ??s hair. But now there is a solution.

The Take Down® brand is not only unique, but is the lead product for the removal of all add-on-hair styles in the beauty industry. It is a very strong cross over product, for all types of women and hair textures.

Every one from hollywood,models, entertainers to the everday college student wears some form of hair extensions, braids,and add-on-hair.

Anyone who has removed fusion, hair extensions, weaves that are saturated with bonding glue, or tiny micro-braids, understands the hassle. When removing hair extensions with fusion, braids, weaves or dreadlocks, the hair can become dry and matted together, so it can take hours upon hours to remove these styles. And often, once these styles are removed, unhealthy, broken hair is left behind.

Introducing a new product that helps detangle hair and aids in the fast and easy removal of fusion, braids, hair extensions, weaves and dreadlocks. TAKE DOWN® makes the pain, tangles, knots and damage associated with removing these styles old news.

With TAKE DOWN®, women and men who desire changing their locked hairstyles donâ??t have to cut their Dreadlocks off any more, they can salvage all that beautiful hair. With TAKE DOWN®, you have no more hair loss, damage or balding. And definitely no more excess fusion adhesive or bonding glue stuck to the hair and scalp.

TAKE DOWN®, THE REVOLUTIONARY HAIR REMOVAL CREAM penetrates through the hair and softens the hair as you comb through it. This natural cream can be a relief from the pain of combing out knots and clumps of tangled or matted hair once you have taken out the extension, braid or dreadlock. This revolutionary process makes removal of braids easy, fast and painless�

TAKE DOWNâ??S ®, revolutionary and unique selling points sit squarely with its ability to address a strong, yet previously overlooked, need in the hair care market.

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Long hair care is the dream of every women.. These simple ways to make woman hair styles are easy in their process and can be finished by you within a few minutes of time. Also, this long hair styling process doesn’t desire any helping hand.Process:

• Comb the hair gently and remove all the knots slowly by hand. Continue combing until the hair is smooth enough and absolutely knot-free.

• Gather all the hair starting from the side of your one ear to the other ear including the hair on the crown of your scalp.Foods That Promote Healthy Hair

Vegetables: Green and yellow vegetables are good for growing long, healthy hair, as they’re rich in beta-carotene. Besides promoting longer hair, beta-carotene also encourages healthy skin, hair and nails. Make sure you have at least five servings of vegetables, concentrating on lettuce, squash, spinach, and other greens to ensure your growing locks will have a glowing sheen.

Foods rich in protein: Realizing that hair, itself, is protein, it’s easy to understand that not getting enough protein in your diet may result in hair thinning or a slowing down in hair growth. On the other hand, if you eat foods rich in protein, you’ll greatly improve your hair growing cycle.

At night before going to sleep, give your hair a hundred strokes with a brush. This increases the blood circulation in the scalp and promotes hair growth. However brush your hair gently for vigorous stroking will cause breakage. Drink coconut water atleast twice a week. It is good for your skin, digestive system and really a miracle ingredient for your hair.

Heat olive oil and massage into hair and then take steam. By doing this regularly you will get rid of split-ends.

Make a paste of jaggery, curd, and Multanni mitti and apply on scalp an hour before shampooing to get rid of dandruff. Take this treatment once in 15 days.

Flaxseed – As well as providing support to all the cells in your body, flaxseed is rich in alpha linolenic acid, which is one of the Omega 3 fatty acids. This makes hair shine, and its also great for treating dandruff.

Increase your Essential Fatty Acids

There are many places you can get these beneficial fats, like flaxseed oil, primrose oil, and salmon oil. These fats helpful fats improve the overall texture of the hair and work to prevent brittle, dry hair.

Pumpkin seeds, oysters, and nuts – These are great food sources of zinc. Zinc is needed for strong hair and normal hair growth. It has the added benefit of being great for your brain and concentration.

Increase the Silica in your Life

Silica keeps your hair looking shiny and sleek. Horsetail, an herb, is a great source of silica, and can help keep your hair healthy and strong.

Coconut oil is a triglyceride having a high affinity for hair proteins. Because of its low molecular weight and straight linear chain, it is able to penetrate the hair shaft. This hair care oil lubricates and gives a smooth feel to dry hair shafts. It also heals the structure of damaged hair and protects it from harmful UVA radiation.

We all love long hair at any age, but once we start getting into our 40’s really long hair doesn’t look as good on us any longer. This doesn’t stand true for everyone but most who are just wearing their long hair in a ponytail really need to start looking into a more attractive hair style that is shorter and just as easy to take care of.

Problems with long hair on women over 40 is:

Long hair tends to drag ones features down and usually has less life and no volume. Yet you see women over 40 with hair that has no life but are afraid to cut it. The longer your hair is the heavier its going to be, which if it’s all one length your hair will look flat and life less. Its very unattractive for anyone with hair that is long with no life because it can add to your age not take away from it. Another problem is when you take all that time to style it, the style doesn’t last more than an hour without tons of product it in. Again too much product will drag your hair down and make it limp. Just throwing your hair into a ponytail cause you don’t want to deal with it, doesn’t look well on you either.

A great example of a good hair style for women over 40 would be Meg Ryan’s A-line Bob. Her hair is naturally curly but when she wears it natural, it works for a ‘do’ for a night on the town or a busy day at the office. Easy to work with, and it you can wear it at any age even grandmothers in the 60’s.

Hairstyles that are A-line with layers and shoulder length with shaggy layers are two very workable styles for today’s women over 40. Cuts such as Victoria Beckman are great for the younger crowd but are too harsh for those over 40.

One thing you need to take into account is one’s shape of one’s face. It becomes a huge factor in finding the right style for you. Don’t forget that color is also a factor in your hairstyle as well as lifestyle. Gray hair is great but you don’t need to have it with so many choice of colors you can get these days. Covering up your gray isn’t considered wrong in today world it has become more of a statement you’re too hip to be gray. Covering gray isn’t like it used to be, it can be done quickly with too much trouble by a good hairstylist. Don’t make the mistake that all over one color is best because it can age you worse than just leaving in the gray alone. Look for a hairstylist that can explain better what high lights, and or low lights can do to help open up your face making it look younger.

It’s time to start thinking about having bangs, even if they are just wispy ones because bangs take away from your age not add to it. Parting your hair down the middle and just letting it hang there is just too old for you! Start thinking about actresses you see that are over 40 and you will see that they are changing up their hair styles to look younger. Take pictures with you to your next haircut of anyone who you know to be over 40 with a hairstyle you really like. A good hairstylist will let you know if your hair is right for that cut. Take the time to start thinking about hairstyles you like, but remember you don’t need to go super short either. Not everyone can pull off Jamie Lee Curtis latest pixie cut. Hairstyles are highly personal and based on lots of different factors, talking with your hairstylist about how much time you are willing to take in the morning for a new hairstyle. She/He will be able to help you decide what works for you. Changing up your hairstyle can add life, luster and fun back to your life.

Everyone talks about massage but did you know there is a right and wrong way to massage your hair, and actually your body but we will concentrate on getting your hair to grow so hair massage is a major issue we must tackle as it is so very important. The right massage not only stimulates growth but can actually even increase the strength of your hair follicles. The wrong massage can actually break your hair, cause no effect from the massage (other than it feels good), and definitely not help you reach your goals. What is the purpose of a good scalp massage? The scalp becomes ‘tightened’ as we encounter stress, etc. therefore creating a loss of circulation which is necessary for good growth. The wrong massage vigorously rubs your scalp AND your hair either by hand or using a tool of sorts, ruffling the hair as the massage proceeds.

The right massage is done using just your fingertips by applying a goodly pressure, keeping the hair from moving but only moving the scalp against the underneath body tissue. The outer skin moves over the inner tissue ONLY. You may need to practice this a little bit in the beginning to understand the principle.

You will notice that when moving your finger tips in this manner, areas of your scalp don’t seem to want to move. They may seem to not move at all but move to different areas of your head and also notice that different areas act different from each other. Don’t become impatient and begin moving the hair as you would in a surface massage. This is a NO-NO. You break hair when you do this. When the scalp seems to not want to move, this is an indication your scalp is STARVING for circulation and needs your attention desperately. So, concentrate diligently on those areas the most and if you can, do this at least 2 times a day for about 1/2 hour. You will find the more you deep massage your scalp, the looser the scalp will become which means of course, the more movement you will be able to obtain using your finger tips. You are causing the blood to move more freely in your scalp and the roots are now getting the circulation it was starving for.

Another big culprit of breaking your hair is combing it. I would tend to just about bet no-one has shared this information with you before as the average person is not told that there is a right way and wrong way to take care of your hair. I always thought it didn’t matter but it really does. As a little girl, with baby fine dry hair, my hair was snarled all of the time. Since I cried every time it was combed, it was cut and I really wanted long hair. It was below my waist when it was cut and kept short. I wish someone had known what I am about to tell you. NEVER use a comb on your hair in the first place unless it is an extreme situation which we will also discuss here. So what do we do?

Do not comb your hair wet. Do not blow dry your hair as it will dry out. Air dry your hair just as much as possible. Heat dries out your hair. Look at how the summer sun can wither things when left in it. When your hair is dry, using your fingers, gently pull your fingers through your hair as if your fingers are a comb but when your fingers get stuck (run into a snarl), gently take both hands and slowly in the middle of this snarl, pull it apart doing just a little bit at a time. In other words, never pull tightly but when it feels it is tightening, go at it from a different direction. This is not as time consuming as it sounds. It definitely eliminates stress on the follicles creating less breakage and when you are done combing your hair with your fingers, you will have no snarls. I cannot say why this works so good other than our body seems to produce oils through our fingers and they seem to naturally remove the snarls rather than forcing the removal of them.

Once the snarls are removed, brush your hair with a very fine ‘horse hair’ brush. Do not worry if it doesn’t go all the way through to the scalp. It isn’t supposed to. Just move your hair so you can cover all of it with your brushing. You stimulate your scalp with your fingertips and not your brush.

Once your snarls are removed, you have completed your massage, and you have brushed your hair, use a natural hair extension so that you do not need to ADD anything whatsoever to your hair to create any damage, i.e.; leave in conditioners, hair spray, any type of additives, no clips, just your natural hair extensions and you will see your hair become healthy and robustly grow. HAPPY hair growth.

First you need a natural hair extensions. Why? Will show you why herein. Make sure you have the right one for you and one that has no clips, glues or things that can further damage your hair. Be Careful.

Hair can be thin and baby fine at birth and naturally appear un-healthy. Not only do we encounter stress, lack of proper nutrients, bad lifestyle habits but hair naturally breaks and re-grows so we need to increase the strength of the hair follicle plus encourage our body to grow new hair.

First our care of our hair is a primary issue. Treat your hair like you WANT it to grow. This is why a natural hair extensions can help us with this. Why shampoo your hair every day and strip it of its natural lubricants? Yes, I know. It looks dirty, right? So, a natural hair extensions can cover up most of your own hair. Instead shampoo your own hair every 3 to 5 days. In fact if your scalp is dry, you might want to go longer. You will find this amazing and notice a definite thickening of the follicle. Research shampoos and conditions and find ones that encourage growth with no breakage. You might even try to contact a ‘hair growth’ clinic to ensure you get the quality you need. Stay away from cheapies. Treat your hair like it is fragile when you shampoo and condition it. Be gentle and use proper massage techniques

Give your hair a ‘rest’. When you are sick, you go to bed so your body can heal itself. Your hair is obviously not healthy so it is sick and needs it’s rest for a time. Again, treat your hair like it is fragile. There are proper massages, proper combings and even other tricks to implement to enhance your good care of your hair. Using natural hair extensions will allow you to give your own hair the rest it needs so it can become healthy again.

Stress and bad lifestyle habits might be things you cannot or dont want to change but you can still grow healthy hair. It just might take a little longer. Using the tips herein will still benefit your hair.

Nutrients are another major factor impacting our hair health. Our lives are so busy there is just no way to eat properly or to take massive amounts of herbs, vitamins, etc. so keep this simple. We can use Vitamin E which is for our skin, hair and nails. A decent amount of 1,000 mg a day should be enough. The other major vitamin is an un-tested theory that has worked well for alot of people and that is a prenatal vitamin. Vitamins that are coated are poorly processed by the body as the acid in the stomach has to firstly dissolve the coating which, by this time, the body is disposing of the vitamin leaving it without the desired affect of the vitamin. Prenatal vitamins usually are not coated and contain extra amino acids which are for hair, skin and nails. I have been told that we cannot overdose on vitamins so they should not hurt us as our body will just simply eliminate the excess. Yes, men too have successfully taken these as it appears there is nowhere else you can get all the ingredients in a prenatal vitamin in one place.

Drink at least one bottle of bottled water per day. Your body needs water for growth and health. If you can handle 3 or a day, that is even better but make sure it is at least one.

Getting hair extensions it’s not a big deal anymore. Many celebrities opp to have them, just to change an extra short haircut into glamorous, romantic, long traces. Don’t be afraid of making some changes, and don’t put any limits into your hair styling. Make sure you choose the best type of extension, and learn how to take care of it, so that you can get a long lasting effect.

Hair Extension Types

There are three hair extension types: the strand by strand extension, weft ones and clip- in extension. The part that makes the difference is the way they fix it to your hair. As their name says, the strand by strand extensions are glued to your hair strands, in small sections. The weft extensions are attached in rows, rather than strands. While the clip-in extensions are simple clip-ons that you can attach into your hairstyle. These extensions last for about 6 months, except for the last one, which lasts only till you remove them.

Also, there are two types of hair that the extensions are made from: synthetic fiber and natural hair.

How to Care For Your Extensions

Hair extensions need special care, starting from the shampoo and conditioner which have to be alcohol free to avoid tangling and matting. Also, you should pay attention not to fall asleep while still wet, if you want to have the chance to detangle it.

When choosing the extensions, make sure your hair stylist knows what will suit your hair type and hair color, to make sure it will blend perfectly or make them really colorful and match only the hair type.

Avoid swimming pools and heat styling tools which can damage your hair. Hair coloring has to be done professionally and the main thing you should pay attention to, is to condition well and make it as soft as possible.

Getting hair extensions is always fun. It is a huge change that creates a completely different appearance and make you look another person. Also, you can opt for the bold colors, just to spice up your hairstyle. In other cases, extensions are perfect to get length and it is the best choice to get volume into the thin hair.

There’s only one thing that makes it a hard choice: the fact that you have to pay more attention on it than you would normally do with your natural hair. It needs special care to stay soft and shiny, and there are several damaging factors you’ll need to avoid.

But let’s face it, hair extensions are the best thing ever invented. We always dreamed of simply changing our hairs length from one day to another, and now it’s possible. Be daring and get some new strands.

If metal clip on extensions are continually worn and the tension on your hair is not regularly alleviated, scarring can occur as well as permanent hair loss, leaving the wearer with a less then desirable appearance they’ll be forced to deal with for their rest of their lives.

In today’s modern society, most people think only of the final appearance of their hair.

(2) The continual over processing with Chemical treatment such as bleaches, dyes, or strengtheners disrupts the keratin structure in a manner that reduces its tensile strength.

The hair follicles can become fragile. At first the hair fall out is not so noticeable because the clip on extensions are disguising it. Add brushing and combing your hair, you will note a difference in the reduced thickness of your hair line but ignore it initially. Later on some people might experience heavy fall out which can occur with brushing, combing and washing your hair. On top of that using extreme heat to fashion each day can also permanently damage the hair follicle.

If detected early, traction alopecia is reversible if diagnosed early. However, permanent loss can occur too slowly for immediate detection. Hair loss is often occurs in the front, but is also subject to the immediate adjacent area to where the clip in extension were pulling and damaging the hair root.

(1) The sad truth of the matter is that permanent traction alopecia does not respond to medical treatment such as minoxidil or finasteride since by its nature, the loss is different then genetic hair loss.

The only way one can treat traction alopecia is with transplants. Follicular unit hair grafting has been identified as the only practical solution to treating traction alopecia. Hair transplant clinics are reportedly seeing a rise in the number of patients with traction alopecia and say the results can be good to excellent.

However this can be a costly approach especially whilst clip on extensions appear so cheap. What you have to consider is whether wearing clip on extensions for over 6 hours a day versus the value of your own hair. Which is worth more?

There are over 18 different extension techniques. It is important that you find a technique that is suitable for your type and life style. There is a misconception that hair extensions can be worn permanently for up to 6 months at a time.

In today’s society, you need to hold on to what you’ve got, look after what you have and start being kinder to your hair.

Sources:
1. Basil M Hantash, MD, PhD, Robert A Schwartz, MD, MPH. (2005) Traction Alopecia, Emedicine.com
2. Cheryl Guttman, May 1, 2003 Alopecia Options for Black Women, Dermatology Times,