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Keeping your hair game at tip top shape is a constant balancing act. For example, the majority of us need to utilize heat styling to shape our hair into the desired style, yet too much heat styling can lead to damage and breakage. Similarly, most of us need some sort of frequent shampooing to prevent excess buildup and grease accumulation yet washing one’s hair too often can easily lead to dryness and split ends. When it comes to maintaining your hair, perhaps the most important tool in your arsenal is having the knowledge of what works and what doesn’t work for your hair type. This can be tricky to determine from person to person, but there are a handful of tips that are almost universal to all hair types. Read our list below and learn what bad hair care habits you need to immediately cut out! Mistake #1: Washing Your Hair Too Often Look, it’s tempting to want to wash your hair as often as possible, especially if you are a frequent user of styling products and hair sprays. However, too much washing can quickly strip away the hair’s outer cuticle layer, which leads to severe moisture loss and dry, brittle hair. Aim to wash your hair as infrequently as possible, with 2-3 times a week being a good starting point, adjusting more or less frequently depending on how your hair responds. Mistake #2: Not Using a Heat Protectant Like hair washing, using a heated styling device can lead to significant breakage and hair damage if you aren’t careful. Using temperatures that are too hot for your hair can lead to a rapid degradation of the hair structure, which is a disaster for your hair health. Thankfully, a dedicated heat protectant product like Sutra’s Heat Protector is able to coat your hair with a lightweight protective layer that lessens the impact of direct heat on the cuticle. Mistake #3: Using Low-Quality Heat Styling Tools While we all love to heat style our hair, it’s a delicate art of applying as little heat as possible while sufficiently utilizing as much energy as is needed to create volume and lock in a style. Although a low-quality device can damage the hair strand with harsh, direct heat application, newer-generation styling tools utilize infrared and ionic technologies to apply heat from the inside out to dry the hair as gently and rapidly as possible. Mistake #4: Under-Moisturizing Your Hair For many of us, one of the worst things we can imagine with our hair is having it weighed down by too much grease and excess moisture. Because of this, many tend to opt for lightweight conditioners, with some even skipping the conditioning step altogether. Unfortunately, this just leads to dryness and brittle hair that not only lacks fullness and volume but is also prone to damage and breakage. Look to incorporate a high-quality conditioner like Sutra’s Replenishing Moroccan Conditioner that provides intense moisturization without weighing your hair down. Featured in Watch our Video

It’s no secret that your body undergoes a rather unusual and oftentimes exhausting journey throughout the process of pregnancy. From skin changes to weight fluctuations, there’s simply no shortage of physical disruptions to have to be on the lookout for during your pregnancy. Sadly, these physical disruptions often include changes to your hair, which can be incredibly challenging and frustrating to try and navigate during this time. The hormonal changes caused by pregnancy can lead to a severe disruption in your hair’s natural growth cycle, and it’s likely that you’ll experience incredibly inconsistent periods of accelerated hair growth followed by accelerated hair loss.  Pregnancy and Your Hair During pregnancy, your hormones are elevated to an extraordinary degree, along with an increase in overall blood circulation in the body. Because of these two physical changes, your hair’s growth cycle is significantly altered, and it takes a significantly longer amount of time for your hair to fall out than usual. The average woman sheds around 100 or so hairs on a daily basis, but during pregnancy this number can be dramatically reduced. As a result, it may seem as if your hair is growing faster than before, requiring more frequent trips to the salon for a trim. What Happens After Pregnancy After giving birth, your body no longer requires an elevated level of hormones and increased blood circulation, causing a dramatic drop in hormone production and reduced blood circulation. Because of this, your hair starts to play “catch-up” when it comes to returning to its pre-pregnancy growth cycle, which can cause an extraordinary amount of hair loss in a short period of time. Following pregnancy, it’s not uncommon to shed nearly 400 hairs a day, which can come in the form of large clumps of hair falling out at once. While there’s nothing you can do to prevent your post-partum hair loss, you can certainly adopt several strategies to make this period more tolerable: Tip #1 Use High-Quality Hair Tools Heat styling is damaging enough to even normal hair, and it can be a disaster for the kind of brittle, thin hair you find yourself with following birth. Take it easy on your hair and allow it to normalize during this bumpy period. Tip #2 Aim for Volume With your hair rapidly falling out, you’ll be left with lots of brittle, limp hairs that lack body and volume. Look for volumizing conditioners and leave-in treatments to add a bit of fullness and body to your hair. Tip #3 Keep Your Diet and Stress in Check While you can’t completely prevent hair loss following birth, there are certainly several things that can make the hair loss better or worse. Diet, for one, can play a huge factor, as you’ll want to ensure you supply your body with enough vitamins and minerals to ensure your hair’s follicle production is up to par. Additionally, stress can make things much worse, so try keeping yourself as relaxed and stress-free as possible. Featured in Watch our Video