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You don’t realize sometimes the ways you harm your hair when you are in a hurry. You can make many mistakes, but I will tell you right here how to stay away of them. It’s good to now which are the errors that are very easy to avoid.

1. It happens sometimes that a few locks of your hair are longer than the rest and you are tempted to trim them by yourself. It shouldn’t be so hard, you might say… But you have really good chances to destroy your hairdo. You’d better hide those imperfections using hair products till you pay a visit to the hairstylist.

2. When coloring your hair, try to do this on the hair salon. They can help you there to choose the right color, in tone with your hair type and natural shade. Anyway, it wouldn’t be wrong to try it at home if you are not intending to make a color changing and if you have some experience, too.

3. Your eyebrows color should be one tone lighter than your hair’s. You can use an eyebrow pen to create this effect.

4. A general mistake (only if you don’t go the hair salon every day) is to choose a fancy haircut which is hard to be maintained at home. The hairstylist has all the knowledge, products and tools to do any kind of hairstyle, but you cannot benefit of all these at home. Have a haircut that is easy to make look good at your home.

5. It is a well known issue that choosing the right products for your hair type is vital. Using inappropriate shampoo can harm your hair and scalp health on a long term.

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This post is a bit beyond our topic, but this is about being practical in everything you do. I do believe that short hair fans have a good practical sense and if there are mothers in this community then they would like to hear this.

The age of 2 brings sometimes the fear for water. Washing your kid hair may become very stressful for both of you. Sometimes he doesn’t let you wet his hair; he is crying and begging you not to put water on his head. It doesn’t seem to be any logical explanation. You didn’t interrupt his games so he is not mad, you use “no more tears” shampoo so he is not hearting. If you’d talked to a psychologist he would tell you not to force him, anyway. It is the age when the child begins to experiences “the fear” and the only good thing you can do is to encourage him and be there for him. Postpone washing his hair and show him that you understand his fears. Next time you could try with a smooth sponge, it could work.

This is one of many phases a child goes through and makes a parent be a witness and guide of this awesome process of becoming a mature person.

Never forget that being practical on everything you do, not pressing things and trying not to overreact, being understanding and self confident is a very clever way to approach your life.

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People have been using Hena for a very long time for dyeing their body and hair. It’s true that some of us use Hena only for naturally coloring our hair, but it also has some other cure characteristics.

I’d like to give you some information about the plant. It rises in Africa, Southern Asia and Northern Australia. It is a small tree, 2–6 m high producing red-orange dye molecule, lawsone. Those molecules are concentrated mostly inside leafs.

Hena has been used to dye skin, hair and fingernails, but also wool, leather or silk.

Hair care industry proposes Hena for its cure benefits:

1. Prevents dandruff and successfully fights against it

2. Prevents hair loss

3. Regenerates hair

4. Conditions hair

5. Maintain a healthy scalp

6. Adds brightness to the hair

7. Has a soothing and cooling effect on the scalp

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As we all know or heard, pregnancy is a wonderful experience, especially if it’s your first child. You might have read many articles about the phases you are passing through, but you won’t completely understand them till you live your own experience.

One of the changes you are going to live is the excellent shape of your hair during the pregnancy, because of the hormones your body produces. Unfortunately, those great months of your hair usually end not long after you give birth. The hair becomes lifeless and you probably have to deal with the hair loss problem. If you wear long hair at that moment, you should probably consider trying a short hair cut. It is a lot easier to take care of short hair because you’ll have more time to spend with your newborn child. Look at the bright side, too: you may be thrilled with your new look and want to keep this short hair style for a while. Or you can always turn to the long hair style, again.

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I will give you today a little thought, something that fills me with joy because it is about my childhood.

I used to spend my childhood holidays in a mountain village where people’s life was like 100 years ago. There were about 300 families living in the village. Every family owned a little backyard for growing vegetables for their own use and some land with apple trees and plum trees for the fruits they used to sell at the market. They also owned a cow for milk, a horse for transportation, some poultry for eggs and meat and a few sheep.

There were tourists from all over the world who arrived to my grandparents’ village. They were surprised about the peasants’ peaceful but hardworking lifestyle. I remember a lady from a big city asking my grandmother about the face lotion that she might have been used in order to have such a young and shiny skin. My grandmother was 70 years old at that time and she had never ever used any beauty product for her face. It was the first time that I looked very carefully at her face and discovered that she had very few wrinkles.

It was all about the villagers’ lifestyle: many hours spent around the house, in the fresh air, but most of all their diet. They have only cooked aliments that came from their yards, full of vitamins, never technologically processed. The healthy lifestyle makes them look younger than they actually were without even being aware.

What’s the conclusion? The shape my grand-mother was in, till the last days of her life, gave me the certitude, more than any book I read, that a good diet, full of vitamins, is very important for us to feel good and to look great.

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