How To Make Hair Shiny

1. Massage to get healthy hair:  To have shiny and healthy hair, your scalp needs nourishment. Massaging your scalp with your fingertips stimulates the blood circulation. If you like, you can use coconut, olive oil or any other essential oil for massaging before sleeping at night and shampoo your hair in the morning.

2. To add Shine to Hair: Rub lemon juice and apple cider vinegar into your hair roots for shiny and healthy hair. Wash your hair after half an hour. Be careful not to stay in sun with lemon juice on your hair, as this can lighten your hair color.

3. Natural beauty tips about how to get soft shiny hair: Rub real mayonnaise throughout your dry hair from near the hair roots till it ends. In case you have oily scalp, don’t rub it into your scalp or too close to your hair line. Wash your hands and wrap your hair in a towel or cover your head with a shower cap. Keep it like that for half an hour. Rinse your hair and then shampoo it.

4. Avoid Hot Water to wash your Hair to have glossy hair: After shampooing and conditioning wash your hair with cold water, which will close the hair cuticles and make your hair shine. Hot water dries out your hair and makes it look dull.

5. Avoid too much Hair Styling to have shiny hair: Too much of bleaching, styling and using heat products can dry out and damage your hair. They tend to take away shine from your hair in the long run.

6. Be careful while blow-drying your hair to have healthy hair:

(i) Best is to air-dry your hair.

(ii) If you have to use hair dryer, never use it on wet hair. Make sure your hair is at least 70% dry before you use hair dryer and style. You can wrap your hair in a towel for five minutes and then let hair air-dry for another five – ten minutes till it is 70% dry.

(iii) The less heat you use on your hair, the healthier they remain.

7. Avoid Harsh Chemicals to get healthy hair:

(i) Harsh chemicals are enemies of soft shiny hair. If you have to use them, neither leave them on too long and nor use them often.

(ii) Also limit your hair exposure to the chemicals, like chlorine in swimming pools.

(iii) Avoid products that contain alcohol, as they dry out your hair and strip off its shine.

(iv) Choose shampoo and conditioner having natural / organic ingredients.

8. Trim your hair ends once in six weeks: This is because of the fact that split ends make your hair look dull and dry.

9. Diet about how to make your hair healthy: 

(i) Hair is made of protein, so eat sufficient protein to strengthen your hair and add shine to hair. Eggs, chicken, beans and nuts are loaded with protein.

(ii) Include in your diet variety of fruits, vegetables, especially dark green veggies.

(iii) Vitamins A and E are helpful to make hair shiny.

10. Drink plenty of water to keep you hydrated: This helps to keep you healthy, including keeping your hair and skin properly moisturized.

11. Some other tips about how to have soft shiny hair:

(i) When brushing your hair, you just need a few strokes to style hair and spread the natural oils from roots to ends. Don’t brush too much as the friction can break your hair.

(ii) Avoid smoking and too much of alcohol, as both are bad for your health and healthy shiny hair.

(iii) If you wash your hair in the morning, cover your pillow with a towel and rub coconut or olive oil into your hair roots the earlier night (if you wash your hair at night, rub it in about an hour before washing your hair).