Expert Hair Care Tips for Gorgeous, Healthy-Looking Hair

Wondering what you need to do to give your hair a smoother and healthier-looking finish? Keep reading as Nubi shares some top hair tips that will help you to do exactly that! 

Consider Your Hair’s Needs When Choosing Hair Care Products

One of the most basic areas where many often stumble is in choosing hair care products, which is why this is the first of our hair tips. It’s so easy to fall for clever advertising or sleek branding, which is why people often end up with hair care products that may look and sound good but don’t actually meet the needs of their locks.

The best way to go about this is to first determine what your hair needs. How? By getting to know your hair type and texture. If your hair is very thick and curly, it will be more prone to dryness. Therefore, your hair care products need to be rich and moisturizing. On the other hand, if your hair is thin and often oily, rich hair care products are the last thing you need. Instead, you should look for lighter formulas that are able to cleanse and hydrate without weighing your strands down.

Only Wash Your Hair When it Needs it 

People often have a hair-washing schedule that they stick to religiously. This means that their hair always gets shampooed on those designated wash days, even if it doesn’t need a cleanse.

What’s wrong with this? You run the risk of over-shampooing your hair. This means that your scalp won’t have enough time to send sebum down to the tips of your strands before it’s all washed away again. With sebum acting as a natural moisturizer/conditioner, a lack of this will soon leave your hair feeling dry and brittle, especially at the ends. 

The best way to prevent over-shampooing is to only shampoo your hair when it’s needed. How will you know if it’s needed? Your hair will start to look greasy and feel heavy. It will also lack volume – the buildup of sebum from your scalp will cause your strands to lose their natural shape. While you don’t want to wait until all of those problems fully arise before washing your hair, you should also avoid shampooing your hair if it still feels clean and bouncy.

Handle Wet Hair Gently

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Did you know that your hair is at its most fragile state when it’s wet? Water disrupts the hydrogen bonds that hold your strands together. This then makes those strands more susceptible to breakages and other forms of damage.

This is why one of the most important hair tips to remember is to be as gentle as possible when handling wet hair. Being rough with your strands will only cause them to snap and frizz.

Start by taking it easy when drying your hair. Avoid scrubbing your locks with a terrycloth towel, opting instead to gently squeeze out excess moisture with a microfiber towel.

Using the right hair dryer will also help to get your hair back to a less vulnerable state much sooner. A blow dryer with a powerful motor, like the Nubi Blow Me Away blow dryer, will get the job done faster. Not only will this save you time but it will also reduce how long your hair remains wet for, saving it from unnecessary damage.

Detangle While Conditioning 

In an ideal world, tangles wouldn’t exist. However, often, despite your best efforts, they still develop. Between curly strands having a propensity to lock together to the wind whipping your locks into knots, tangles can sometimes seem unavoidable.

Tangles themselves aren’t a huge problem, so long as you’re regularly detangling your hair. If you leave those tangles in place, they’ll only form large mats that will cause some serious damage to your hair when you do finally get around to detangling.

Brushing your hair each evening will help to release any knots that have formed over the course of the day. However, if you have any particularly stubborn tangles, it can sometimes be easier to deal with these in the shower, after you’ve applied your conditioner. A conditioner gives the hair some extra lubrication, helping strands to slide against each other without catching. With the right conditioner, along with plenty of patience, you’ll be able to detangle even the thickest of knots!

Heat Protection is Everything

Whether you’re using a hair dryer, a hair straightener, a curling wand, or anything else, you’re probably aware of how exposing your hair to high levels of heat can leave it damaged. Roughness, dryness, split ends, frizz, and excessive tangles are just a few of the signs that your hair is suffering from heat damage.

Cutting back on your use of heated styling tools should be the first step that you take (more on this soon!). However, if you aren’t able to stop using these tools completely, heat protection should be a big priority. Fortunately, with so many heat protection products out there, this is now easier than ever. Whether you opt for a serum, a cream, a spray, or anything else, coating your strands with these protective formulas will help to minimize the onset of heat damage.

Another one of our top heat-protecting hair tips is to apply your heat protectant while your locks are still damp. Your hair is most permeable when it’s wet, which will allow the heat protectant to soak into your strands more easily.

Be Smart When Choosing Heated Styling Tools

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Another of our heat styling hair tips is to be wise when choosing heated styling tools. While they all share the same goal, in terms of flat irons straightening the hair and curling wands curling the hair, they cause varying amounts of damage while helping you to achieve that goal.

If you want to minimize the appearance of heat damage, there are a few key features to look out for when shopping for heated styling tools. The first is plate/barrel material. Ceramic is known for being the gentlest, making this the material to go for if you want to improve how healthy your hair looks.

An adjustable temperature control is key too. This will allow you to customize how much heat is emitted by your device. As a result, you’ll be able to tailor your styling session to your hair type. If you have thin or fine hair, you can go with a lower heat. On the other hand, if you have stubbornly thick and coarse hair, you can turn up the temperature.

The Nubi Soft N’ Straight 1.25” Ceramic Purple Styler offers both of those features plus more. With infrared heat, which is known for being gentler, plus negative ion technology to give you a smoother finish, you’ll be able to style your locks to perfection while still maintaining a healthy appearance.

Alternate Heat Styling With Heat-Free Hairstyles

Even though heat protection products along with the right heated styling tools will help to minimize the appearance of heat damage, you should still avoid heat styling your hair on a daily basis. If heat styling is something that you’ve come to rely on, explore alternative options. There are plenty of hairstyles out there that will still give you a polished finish without the need for heat.

Need some inspiration? Here are a few heat-free hairstyles to try:

• Braids. From Dutch and French to banded and mini, there are so many braid styles out there to experiment with!
• Buns. Try a high bun for a professional finish or a messy bun for a more casual look.
• Ponytails. Although they may seem ‘boring’, there are plenty of ways to take a regular ponytail to the next level. Double it up to make a super-high pony, add some extra hair ties to create a bubble ponytail, or simply pair your regular pony with some snazzy hair accessories.

Chlorine Protection is Important Too

We’ve talked about protecting your hair from the heat, but if you also spend lots of time in swimming pools, chlorine protection needs to be considered too. Chlorine strips away the natural oils from your hair shaft. This leaves the hair weaker and more vulnerable to damage. It will also make you more prone to split ends while causing your hair color to fade too.

So, how do you protect your hair from chlorine? 

Try wetting your hair before you start swimming. Saturating your strands with water will prevent it from absorbing quite as much chlorine. Rinsing your hair once you’re done swimming will also remove any chlorine residue, rather than allowing it to linger on your strands. Of course, wearing a swimming cap will go a long way in reducing your hair’s exposure to chlorine too!

Invest in a Hair Mask

While choosing the right hair care products for your hair, especially when it comes to your conditioner, will help you to achieve healthier-looking locks, adding in a couple of deeply moisturizing extras can still be useful.

This brings us to the last of our hair tips – investing in a hair mask! Hair masks are basically intense hair conditioners. They can be used after a conditioner or, sometimes, instead of. They’re a great way to give your hair some extra TLC.

Again, pick a mask that’s designed for your hair’s needs. Dry and damaged hair will need a mask that leaves it feeling stronger and restored, whereas oily hair will need a mask that’s capable of de-greasing the feel of your strands while providing plenty of hydration to amplify volume. 

Hair masks can provide great results but don’t be tempted to overuse yours. Once a week is sufficient for most hair types, although severely damaged hair could benefit from a twice-weekly mask until some improvements can be seen.

Hair Tips From Nubi

Your hair care habits will significantly influence how healthy and vibrant your hair looks, which is why the above hair tips are so important. Try to implement as many of them as possible and it won’t be long before your locks start to feel stronger, softer, and much easier to manage! 

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