Is DIY Hair Care Right for You?
DIY hair care is taking care of your hair entirely on your own without
the help of a stylist. Some people may do pretty much everything
themselves and then only see a stylist for cuts and trims. Do it
yourself hair care includes deep conditioning, treatments, trims, as well as coloring your hair at home.
Learning to manage your hair can be extremely empowering! You are now in control of your hair's health, care, and treatment. Should there be issues with your hair, there is no one to blame but yourself. On the other hand, you may notice your hair thriving with do it yourself hair care! There are also some hair treatments and procedures that should be left to the professionals.
Advantages to Managing Your Own Hair
There are a lot of advantages to embarking on diy hair care:
- You don't have to spend hours sitting in a salon.
- You don't have to worry about someone being rough with your hair.
- You don't have to worry that a stylist is going to burn, harm, or damage your hair.
- You get to learn all about your hair - what works, what doesn't.
- You learn how to use various styling tools.
- You get to experiment with products to learn which work best for you.
- You can do your hair when it's convenient to you, not someone else.
- You don't have to travel.
- Your knowledge about hair, in general, will gradually increase leading to even better hair care for you.
- You can trim exactly how much you want to trim. Check out my article on how to trim your own hair.
- You can make sure you're relaxing only what needs to be relaxed as well as what kind of relaxer is used on your hair.
- You gain independence and control of your own hair!
Disadvantages to Do It Yourself Hair Care
- Trimming can be a little bit scary and imperfect - at first.
- It is difficult to color your own hair and be sure you're doing it correctly.
- Special occasion hair styles are difficult to create and professionals typically can just do it better.
- If you prefer to keep your hair in a style, it's difficult to maintain at home.
- Cutting your own hair into a style is probably not a good idea so in most cases, this should be left to stylists.
- Relaxing
your own hair is difficult and takes practice. Don't damage your hair
experimenting too much with this. If anything, get someone to "teach"
you.
- Getting your hair as straight and swinging as you like takes a lot of practice. Don't use too much heat trying to do this. Experiment over time.
- It can be expensive to collect all the hair care tools and products needed.
In conclusion, you do not need to dive completely into DIY hair care. You can take it by steps. Start off by not depending on a stylist between relaxer treatments. Buy professional styling tools like blow dryers, ceramic flat irons, bonnet dryers, good combs/brushes and good hair products. Start practicing with your hair. It is the only way that you'll learn. Set some time aside on the weekend to practice various methods of caring for your hair.
Come up with a backup hairstyle such as the bun. When your practice sessions don't come out too well, go for a simple bun until you have time to play around again the next week. If you're natural, you can practice with your hair in the evenings after work since you are probably washing your hair more often.
Save trimming your hair for last once you get comfortable with everything else. Trimming your own hair is not that difficult nor is it scary. It just requires the willingness to learn. I hope my website is able to assist you in learning methods of diy hair care!
Don't think you're ready to completely take care of your hair yourself? Here's an article on how to choose a hair stylist to help you achieve your healthy hair goals.
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