How to Treat Damaged Hair

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Amelia, and I'm going to show you how to treat your hair if it's damaged. Ideally, you want to use some sort of treatment on it at least once a week, and that would be something like this. It's a reconstructor, deep penetrating, and it will specifically say for damaged hair. I really like the K-Pak. It's mainly protein based, but now they do have one that has moisture as well. So, this is a good choice. When your brushing your hair, you want to make sure that you only brush from the bottom up, and when it's wet, you really only want to use a comb on it. You don't really want to use a big brush, and you don't want to rip through it. You just want to lightly comb through if you've got any knots or anything because damaged hair does tend to knot up a lot easier. Another thing you're going to want to possibly use is a leave-in treatment; something like this which is the Trauma Treatment by Lonza. You would actually apply this to wet hair, and this will also help with detangling. So, that's one advantage of using a leave-in treatment as it does help with detangling. And then when you're drying your hair, you always want to make sure that you're going to use some sort of product that's going to protect it from the heat. A thermal protectant is extremely important whenever using any type of heat on it whether it be a blow dryer or a flat iron. So, when you're drying your hair, just also don't pull on it with the brush. Like you're not going to want to actually really rip that hair through and hold that dryer really close because what that's going to do, is that's going to, in effect, cook the hair even more. So, as long as you're gentle with it and you're using good quality reconstruction products on it, you should have no problems with treating and taking care of your damaged hair."