You maybe won’t surprised that you are likely shampoo your hair in wrong way. In fact, most of us make several mistakes we lather up, we don’t spend enough time scrub our scalps, we don’t rinse thoroughly and sometimes we skip the conditioner. Now you can learn how to wash your hair professionally, you will feel your hair very clean just like in hair salon, below is some mistakes you may made and the ways to fix them.
1.They don’t wet the hair thoroughly.
I read a comment from a celebrity stylist where he said most people don’t wet their hair thoroughly before apply shampoos. Every strands need soaking wet to get truly clean. The good news is it takes several minutes to get every strands clean.
2.They use too much(or too little) shampoo.
Most people have no idea how much shampoo to use, if you use fancy shampoo, you may waste too much money down the drain.
At the same time, use too little shampoo can’t wash your hair clean enough.
Turn out the magic size when it come to shampoo and it’s all base on coins. For short hair, aim for the size of nickle. For medium size hair, aim for quarter. For long length hair, a half dollar will do you.
Squeeze the shampoo to your palm, use your finger apply the products to your hair for top to the end.
3.They don’t focus their attention on scalp.
If you have ever had professional shampoo in hair salon, you know how much time they spend on your scalp. I always thought a long shampoo is head massage, but it turns out head massage is a very important step for effective hair washing.
Most people don’t spend enough time scrubbing your scalp.
Experts agree we should scrub our scalp at least 3 minutes. It’s a magic number: 3 minutes. No matter your hair length or hair type, you should all scrub, scrub, scrubbing your scalp with the pad of your fingers, not your nails, and we should do this in a brisk, and circle motion. 3 minutes seems like long time, so for those of you who can’t do this 3 minutes, just do your best.
Focus on your initial shampooing hair on the scalps helps remove dirt. Spending 30 seconds to one minutes on your scalp scrub is like quickly running a mop over a dirty floor, rather than scrubbing the surface grime.
4.They don’t rinse and repeat.
Have you always thought that the direction on back of every shampoo bottle to “rinse and repeat” was a bunch of BS meant to get us to buy more shampoo?
Turn out some of us need repeat and repeat, especially those with long hair. If you have short and really fine hair you can skip the R&R.
It works like this: after you scrub your scalp for 3 minutes, you can rinse your hair.
A quick 15 second rinse is suffice. Then it’s the part 2 of shampoo. Only this time, you should focus on your hair instead of scalp. Focus on the massaging the shampoo on your hair.
Follow this rule, you will find you need to wash your hair less often.
- They don’t thoroughly rinse the shampoo out of hair.
- They skip the conditioner. (or they don’t apply it properly).
Those of us with fine hair might think conditioner is belong to those with frizzy and bad hair. Well, it turn out we are wrong.
Fine hair can get tangle and knot, you can apply the hair conditioner on the bottom of your hair. Don’t let the conditioner touch your scalp.
5.They don’t comb their hair in shower.
While the conditioner in the hair, it’s good time to detangle your hair with wide tooth comb, if you are suffer from tangle and breakage, it’s highly recommend.
6.They get lazy and don’t rinse thoroughly rinse conditioner out of their hair.
Many people thought leave some hair conditioner on your hair can make your hair soft, actually, if you don’t wash your conditioner totally, it can make your hair looks flat and dull. It’s better to use a leave in hair conditioner.
7.They don’t finish their hair with cold water rinse.
It turns out the rumor you read on magazine, cold water can make your hair more shiny is true.
It’s okay if you are brave and wanna a shiny hair, then you should go ahead and move that tap to cold.