Knowledge base on how-to color your hair with streaks

Your hair is your crowning glory. Manage it with care and it will shine for all the world to see. You don't always need expensive treatments, or hairdresser appointments to manage your hair professionally. There's so much you can do yourself.

1. To get hair in peak condition ponder on the things you eat. A mirror image is in your hair of how you are managing your body. Consuming the best food in the best way possible should always result in better hair than all the fancy product available. Eight or ten half pints of water taken a day is what you should aim for; hair is 25% water, so don't let yours go thirsty!

2. If you have just washed your hair, dry it in the ambient temperature of your room after using an absorbent towel so that the majority of the water has been taken away, and only rub gently, of course. Avoid the use of blowdrying, flat irons, curling irons or hot rollers. Artificially heating will make your hair damaged with britality in the long run. Employ naturalness whenever you can.

3. Avoid causing problems for your hair. Only use a hair brush that is right. If you hair is wet, use a comb with wide set teeth, start combing from the hair ends and make your way to the roots, but avoiding touching the root. If your hair is wet and you use a steel comb, this will cause damage to your hair so you shouldn't do it!

4. Get rid of your split ends by doing this: grasp small amounts of hair and carefully twist them making a motion that is downward and gentle. The split ends will stick out. Using sharp scissors, carefully cut into the twisted section, however, avoiding the actual cutting through of the hair bit, to take away the split ends the layered effect that results is one of naturalness. Cut roughly the same amount from each twist to balance the effect.

5. The loss rate of one's hair may be diminished, by the application of several ideas, however, it is unlikely to effect a cure on a disease or condition already there. Hair follicles can be revigorated by the use of biotin: honey, bananas and yoghurt blended together with low fat milk, and drink it daily. The use of vitamin b6, along with palmetto and zinc is likely to be of benefit as well, getting rid of all stressful things in your life and getting plenty of sleep may work just as well.

The human race seems to have an obsession about its hair, whether we are 9 or 90, male or female. Be careful about YOU and your hair will reflect that care and attention. Samson's strength (the guy in the Bible) was rooted in the hair on his head. Your hair reflects your strength too.