Naturally Highlighting Hair
There are several methods to highlight your hair using natural products instead of using harsh chemicals that will damage it. Our favorites are: Chamomile Boil a pot of strong chamomile tea (without sugar, of course) and rinse your hair with it every day for a week. Leave it in, and style as usual. Taking sun while having chamomile on your hair will increase its bleaching action, and give you nice golden-colored highlights. Olive Oil A little known remedy for bleaching your hair, olive oil will also keep it soft and shiny. Apply a generous amount of olive oil to your hair, comb thru and head for the beach. Just applying olive oil to your hair won’t bleach it, but sunning with it on your mane will do the trick. Try it for a few days in a row, and you will love the results: sun kissed hair that is in top condition! Lemon Juice Make a mixture of 1/3 freshly squeezed lemon juice and 2/3 water and apply to the whole length of your hair, avoiding the scalp (unless you have dandruff, in which case DO apply it to your scalp since lemon is a good dandruff-fighting product). Catch a [...]
Alternatives to Highlights
Highlighting your hair can be disastrous for its integrity, shine and strength. Still lots of us choose to highlight since the result is quite striking. Damaging, but striking. But before you decide to bleach strands of your hair, you should consider other possibilities. My favorite is getting hair extensions instead. Why damage your hair when you can just achieve the same results while at the same time increasing your hair volume. Other alternative to highlights is darkening big chunks of your hair by just two or three tones, and then slightly bleaching the actual highlights with an oil based dye instead of the customary power-based dye that is normally used for highlights, and which is the most damaging chemical you could put on your hair. This method achieves the same impact as regular highlights while keeping you from frying your hair. Finally a less dramatic look-wise alternative to highlights if you have virgin, never bleached hair, is the daily application of a very concentrated chamomile tea to your hair, and the use of a sun-kissed natural product to the bangs that frame your face. Among these products are lemon juice and olive oil (please see our article on Naturally Lightening [...]
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