How to Keep Long Hair Beautiful and Healthy

Avoiding hair dryers and heating appliances will keep your long hair healthy.

Growing long hair that's shiny and healthy does not require regular salon visits and expensive vitamin supplements. You will need to exercise common sense, however, and have patience to keep your hair manageable. Avoiding hair-care products with harsh chemicals while reducing exposure to the sun and chlorinated water will also protect your long locks.

Things You'll Need

• Deep conditioner
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Avoid constant blow drying to keep long hair healthy. Blow-drying long hair can damage it and leave it lifeless and dull. The heat from the hair dryer can break off and split the ends of long hair, creating a dry and frizzy look. Try to wash your long hair in the evening and let it air-dry. This will keep it looking shiny and healthy. Plus, you won't need to go to the salon as often to have split ends trimmed.

2. Moisturize long hair with a good deep conditioner at least once a week. Conditioning long strands will keep them looking fresh and vibrant. Hair-conditioning masks can also be left on hair for about 10 to 15 minutes, providing intensive moisturizing treatment to long hair. If your long hair is severely damaged, try keeping in a conditioning treatment in the hair for about a half hour. Also, use a good daily conditioner that provides protection for long hair, especially if you use a lot of heated styling equipment.

3. Get regular trims to keep long hair healthy and beautiful. Trimming your hair at least once every six weeks will make it appear healthy since you'll be getting rid of the split ends and damaged hair. Be sure to ask for at least a half-an-inch trim off the ends when going to your stylist. You can also trim your hair at home by twisting sections of your hair and trimming a half inch off the ends that stick out.

References

• Long Locks: Learn How to Grow Long Hair and Keep it Healthy