My Hair Story

Hi girls,

Who doesn’t envy lovely thick flowing tresses? Well, I for one have not wanted really long hair, but I’ve wished for thick hair. My hair is of medium thickness and I love it but the one problem I face is that it appears scanty on the scalp.

Before, I was a happy kid with short straight silky smooth hair and no worries. I used to oil everyday with plain coconut oil and plait my short hair. During weekends, my mom made sure that my hair was treated with mustard oil before she washed my hair with homemade shikakai powder mix. I used to hate Shikakai powder and later enjoyed the luxury of shampoos even though I never missed the oiling routine. Sometimes, I also used homemade herbal hair oil that had hibiscus, fenugreek, curry leaves, etc. During my teens, I once tried Arappu powder (similar to shikakai) that is common in Tamilnadu. Although this is a Holy Grail product for many women here, I got dandruff after using it twice. So I avoided it totally, but the dandruff stayed with me forever. As if that weren’t enough, I started losing loads of hair in the years to come.

When I left school, along with so many things, I left my oiling routine behind. Since I had an oily scalp by nature, I thought why I should oil my hair separately when it is secreting so much oil by itself. So just when I thought things couldn’t get worse :struggle: my silky smooth hair became dry and frizzy. That sounds quite a mess right! Unfortunately, this is what I had to deal with. The worst part is I didn’t even care about anything until a year ago :P

After references from beauty columns in newspapers and of course the internet, I tried lots of remedies in the past year or so and found a few that seemed to work well for me. I won’t say that I have achieved the feat. But the progress is noticeable and good for me and so I will share it with you all.

My Hair:

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Hello everyone! :)

Well I hope everyone is having good health and skin. And here I am to talk about the love and hate of my body. My hair of course.. I love it for its curls and bounce colour and what not. I hate it for is easy frizzing nature and dryness. Let’s see how I managed to keep the love part stronger and fought with my issues to keep my tresses one of my best features.

Do I have perfect hair? Hell no. Let me reintroduce my hair to you. Those who read my henna preparation article know it but for the sake of the journey, let’s start from the beginning.

I have curly, mahogany brown, medium length hair. It’s soft but frizz prone in nature and easily loses moisture making it dry. The kind of water affects it a lot too. When I was a kid I wasn’t concerned about it as my mom used to take care of it (isn’t every mom the same?). But as I went ahead with my studies and had to take care of it myself, I had lots of issues with it. My family was introduced to Amway and I started using their 2 in one shampoo, resulting in extreme hair fall. I lost nearly 40% of my hair and being a girl with thick and voluminous tresses that’s saying something. I had to stop it and regularly use castor oil to get them back. And then came my hormones.

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I was never too caring about my hair until I faced severe hair fall and slow rate of growth which was 2 years ago. Stress and depression caused hair fall and when all the damage was done, I started researching on how to stop it, that is when I came to know about how to take care of hair.

Before these 2 years, I did not use any other oils than regular store bought coconut hair oil; neither used any hair pack other than henna that too once or twice in 6-7 months. So, basically I was totally unknown of the fact that in terms of taking care of hair, one needs do more than just oiling and washing.

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Hello beautiful!

As I start writing this post the last years of my life flash across my eyes. The last 2 years when I have faced tremendous struggle growing out my hair long and the struggle I am still going which I was in love and I am still no matter how they are. I would love it if you all travel with me through my journey. Read on friends.

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Hi all!

I am a housewife and a mother of two boys, a 5 year old and a newborn :) so that leaves me with very little time to take care of myself and groom myself. However I still take time out to do some basic hair care routine. I personally believe that we must love ourselves inside and out to be able to take care of ourselves. Being healthy on the inside shows on the outside and being well groomed on the outside makes one feel happy to be in their skin which in turn positively affects our physiology. So it is a win-win game always.

How it all began?:

My hair story is not all that great because it was very late when I started growing my hair. My mum for some reason was not very keen on having me and my sister grow out our hair. So I was practically a tomboy up until my third year in graduation. After which I decided to grow my hair.

I have very dry hair and skin but my scalp is comparatively oily but not so much that it can withstand the rigors of winters. Having my father in the defense only meant constant transfers, new places, new weather conditions and new water type. And now that I think of it I am pretty glad that my mum kept our hair short as it would not have survived all the constant changes. All this only helped me to become not so conscious of the different water and weather conditions for which I am thankful.

Finally after settling down in my current city did I decide to grow out my hair. I have beautiful hair I must say. It is neither poker straight nor curly but naturally wavy and bouncy and the correct hair care can do wonders to it. However, it is not in the least thick and does not grow very fast and is easily prone to breakage and split ends being dry. There is also hair fall but not very much.

Even with all these issues I still love my hair to no end and am in the process of growing it longer. For years it was a typical layered cut shoulder length hair, but now it is past my shoulder.

My hair care routine:

I only wash my hair once for the fear of drying it further. I always do the same old hot oil hot towel treatment and leave the oil overnight and then before I wash I apply a hair mask of either whole egg + honey + essential oil or whole egg + banana + essential oil which I leave on for like 40 minutes to 1 hour and then wash it out with my L’Oreal smooth intense shampoo and conditioner for dry hair (Dharu’s reviews is what made me get this). Even here I go easy with the shampoo and religiously leave the conditioner in my hair for a few mins.

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