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Sensational Tips for Girls Who Want to Grow the Hair of Their Dreams ...

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Sensational Tips for Girls Who Want to Grow the Hair of Their Dreams ...
Sensational Tips for Girls Who Want to Grow the Hair of Their Dreams ...

Growing your hair can be a struggle, especially if you use hot tools such as hair straightening irons and curling irons. It can take forever, especially if your ends tend to break due to heat styling or using the wrong hair ties. Summer is the best time to put the hot tools away and rock your natural texture. Here are the best ways to grow your hair longer and faster for beautiful, healthy, long locks, perfect for summer.

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1. Trim Hair for Healthy Ends

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Trim your hair about half an inch every two months to cut the dead ends off so healthy hair can grow. You may think that trimming your hair will cut off length, but trimming it a little bit every one to two months keeps the ends from splitting and promotes healthy growth.

2. Conditioner is Key

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Condition your hair every time you shampoo, or even when your hair is just wet. The ends of your hair can be thinner because of dying your hair and heat styling. Conditioning the ends helps restore moisture back into those strands.

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3. Wash Your Hair Less

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Washing and shampooing your hair too often can dry the hair out, causing the ends to dry out as well, stunting growth. Instead of washing hair every day, limit shampoo time to twice a week, or even once a week if you can get away with it. The thicker your hair is, the less you need to wash it.

4. Use an Oil Treatment Once a Week

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Using an oil treatment on your strands is another way to bring moisture back into your hair, while also making it crazy soft! Some great oils to use are olive oil, jojoba oil, and coconut oil. Use any of these (or all!) to smooth strands. Simply put on for 10 minutes before you shampoo. Using an oil treatment once a week will smooth rough strands, promoting new and existing hair growth.

5. Take a Hot Tools Hiatus

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Using hot tools such as straightening irons and curling irons cause damage to your strands and make it super difficult for hair to grow past your shoulders. Taking a hot tools hiatus for a few weeks, or even months, can do wonders for your hair. Letting your hair be au natural will help repair damaged strands and help your hair grow longer and faster.

6. Take a Daily Biotin Supplement

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Biotin is one of the key vitamins needed for hair growth. If your diet doesn't consist of this, simply taking a biotin supplement every day will give you that key nutrient needed for hair growth. Biotin comes in pills, chewable flavored tablets, and gummies. They are easy to access and relatively affordable.

7. Embrace Your Natural Hair Color

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Chemicals from hair dye can cause damage to the strands just as bad as using heat styling tools, especially ones that use bleach. Take a break from hair color and embrace your natural color. Going back to your roots will help repair the damage made from previous hair coloring events, creating healthy hair for optimal growth.

8. Switch to Hair Towels

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Wrapping wet hair under a huge towel can pull on the strands, creating breakage, especially to the hairs around your face from being wrapped too tightly. Switching to hair towel solves this problem. It dries your hair just as good as a regular towel, but doesn't pull on the strands, which helps your hair grow it its full potential. Switching to hair towels is an easy switch to make to help your hair grow longer.

9. Condition Strands after a Beach Trip

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The beach is a great place to hang out during the summer, but the salty ocean water isn't so great for your strands. The salty water dries out strands, and ultimately causes them to break. If you do get your hair wet at the beach, slather deep conditioner into your damp hair and rinse in fresh water when you can. Conditioning the strands after a beach trip will help hair from breaking at the ends.This will help your hair grow longer and faster.

10. Use Hair Ties Less Often

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While hair ties are perfect for putting hair up into a ponytail and to keep you cool during the summer, they can also cause strands to break. Because the hair is pulled tight by the elastic, the hair is being pulled and will often break. Use clips instead as often as you can to avoid strands from breaking. Using hair ties less often will help hair grow to its full potential.

While we all would love a secret recipe to help hair grow an inch per day, the reality is that hair will grow as fast as it is healthy. To grow your hair longer and faster, damage to the hair must first be repaired and hair needs to be left natural. If you follow these steps, your hair will grow faster and longer this summer. What's stopping you from getting the long hair you've always craved?

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Good tip I try to apply them in my routine care

All tips are good and make sense. Just that this one tip about trim is a little incorrect information - Hair growth doesn't happen at the ends. It happens at the roots. Trimming doesn't promote hair growth, its just for getting rid of damaged hair ends.

All of these are great except the first tip about cutting your ends so often. The average person (if healthy) grows 6 inches of hair each year. If you're snipping off so much of your ends every few months, you're not really allowing for growth.