I’m back with a little more about my hair and the products I’m using to restore my hair back to health and help it grow. If you haven’t read about the incident and my first update please do before reading this post.
Admittedly since the incident I’ve been traveling a ton and therefore haven’t done everything I planned on doing for my hair — so I’m curious if it could be even better than it is now if I were to have been religious about everything.
In the 11 weeks since my hair incident I’ve been in NYC, Hawaii, Cabo San Lucas, Rwanda, and Kansas City. Not a lot a time for massaging my head with oil and keeping track of taking all my hair pills. I plan to pick those things back up now that I’m home for a while.
What I have been doing is only using awesome products on my hair. I bought the Living Proof Restore Mask (and gushed about it in this post) even before I partnered with with Living Proof, but now I’ve had the opportunity to use a lot of their products and can tell you about them.
Let’s just start with an unflattering hair photo that I definitely didn’t want to publish, but I’m taking one for the team here to show you the state of my hair. You can see in this photo just how short the entire top layer of my hair is. It’s frizzy and jagged and stops at my jawline or shorter.
Thank goodness the under part of my hair is in tact, otherwise I’d have really short icky hair and would have possibly considered a pixie cut. Or bought a ton of hats.
Know that I never cut layers in my hair. It’s too thin for layers, so all these “layers” you see are literally where my hair broke off.
So, what am I using? Well, when a product line is literally called Restore, sign me up. Since I already loved the mask I trusted this line and dove right into using it. All of it.
First the shampoo and conditioner. I switch out the conditioner for the mask every other shower. I don’t wash my hair every single day (you know it’s bad to wash your hair every day, right?), I do about every 2-3 days, sometimes four depending on if there were any hot yoga classes involved. So the mask and conditioner are on rotation, the shampoo is every shower, but only a little shampoo.
After I get out of the shower, I put the Restore Instant Repair on my hair, and then I’ll air dry or blow dry my hair on low. I try to air dry as long as possible so I don’t to blow dry as much. Since it’s cold now I can’t leave with my hair too wet or I’ll be freezing. I try to shower around being able to let my hair air dry, but that doesn’t always happen.
The Restore Instant Protection I think I’ll use a lot more in the summer since it has UV protection, and once I can use hot styling tools again.
Besides the Restore Mask Treatment, this Satin Hair Serum is my favorite product. The other products are probably doing just as amazing things for my hair, but this product smells soooooo good, I love the packaging — it’s glass, it’s black ombré, basically me in a bottle — and frizz has always been a problem for me, and this is the instant solution.
Charles my hair magician plus some amazing Living Proof products and boom, my hair looks normal. I mean, is this the same head of hair from the other photo or what!?!
Ok, we’ll wait another month or so, and then I’ll give you all another hair update. Maybe I’ll even measure my growth since the incident for ya. Also, my roots are really growing out now (haven’t seen this much virgin hair for a while) and there are a few more grays in there than there used to be (gulp). I probably won’t be getting any color any time soon so it could get scary! I might be going ombre unintentionally!
If you want to see which of the Living Proof products would be best for you, you can get a hair diagnostic on their site!
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Photos by Laura Metzler
This post was done in partnership with Living Proof. All opinions are my own.
I just went blonde about a month ago, from my usual brunette with highlights… my stylist used a great product that stops breakage etc. but my hair is still fragile from all the processing, so am using everything I can get my hands on. Will definitely try the satin hair serum and restore mask! thanks for sharing… Robin at THE INSPIRED (http://theinspired.life).
I have been dying to try Living Proof! Looks ahhhhmazing!!
XO Sahra
Que Sera Sahra
Do it! They have travel sizes too so you can test smaller sizes!
Sigh. I feel your pain. Thin hair that won’t grow past my shoulders. Thin, frizzy, mousy brown With blond highlights.(couple gray sparkles). …doesn’t look good unless I style it with heat. But then the heat damages it. I followed over from Instagram (living proof). Looks like it’s worth a try. Please update on your hair status. I eager to see your results.
I do think that certain products can make a huge difference. Sometimes I find it hard to tell with things like shampoo & conditioner — as in what is best for my hair — but I do think the mask is very obvious in how awesome it is. And I definitely need to protect my weak hair any way I can, and I think a lot of cheap, and even not cheap shampoos strip hair, and so using the Restore line is really important for me to keep my hair healthy. I know a lot of people can’t just have wet hair or need to use heat in some way to be presentable or professional, but any way you can cut down on heat, or use a heat protectant, I think that’s really important. Eating healthy (or taking the right vitamins), using products that are good for your hair, using the LP mask once a week and then a deep conditioning even homemade mask that you leave on your head for a few hours or over night, plus not heat styling as much and I think you’ll see a noticable difference. I’m eager to grow out my new hair, chop off the damage, and see how healthy my hair will be now that I know how to take care of it.
I’ve been meaning to get some of these Living Proof products for my hair!
Thanks for the post!
-Libby
http://www.libbylivingcolorfully.com