Hair Chalking "How-To"

 A Simple & Safe Way to Let Your Kids Play with Hair Color

This trick is fun for kids to do to each other and best of all, it will all be gone with one shampoo. Since the instructions in the photograph are minimal, let me add a few tips of my own:

• Hair chalking will only show up on hair that is light brown to blonde. The weak color intensity of chalk just won't show up on dark hair.

• Make sure the hair is dry when you apply the chalk.

• Apply a little hairspray to the ends of the hair and let it dry prior to chalking. It will help the chalk adhere to the hair. 

Peace & Hairpiness,
Larry

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Does Cutting Your Hair Really Make It Grow Faster?

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Everyone has heard that if you cut your hair it will grow faster. Seems counter-intuitive, so is it true?

Well, yes and no.

Hair doesn't grow from the ends outward like a plant does. Hair growth occurs at the scalp. That"s why you get "roots" when your hair color has grown out (why are there so many plant analogies related to hair anyway?). But, if you keep the ends trimmed regularly your hair does seem to grow faster. Here's why:

Over time even healthy hair will develop small splits at the ends. If these splits aren't trimmed off regularly, they will continue to split and re-split and extend further up the hair shaft. When your hair gets to this point, the abrasion that occurs with your hair moving across the fabric of your blouse, sweaters and coats is enough to break off small amounts of the ends. So, even though your hair is growing normally at the scalp (which is about a half inch per month), it's breaking off gradually at the ends.

Simply making sure that you get the ends trimmed every 6-8 weeks will keep the ends of your hair healthy and allow it to grow longer.

By the way, no vitamin or supplement or anything that you apply to your scalp will have even the slightest impact on your hair growth. So save your money and spend it on a good haircut, because that really will help it grow..

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Simple Do-It-Yourself Up-Do For Teens

To do this hairstyle you will need:

• light hold hairspray
• natural bristle hair brush
• bobby pins that match your hair color

I love this up-do. Just about any girl with long hair could do this at home. In the second photo she's using a natural bristle brush to back comb her hair ("teasing" for those of you born before 1980) . Don't skip this important step as it creates the fullness and gives you something to help hold the bobby pins.

Would you like some lessons on Hair Cutting?
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Peace love & hair-piness,
 Larry

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A Cute and Easy Braided Hairstyle for Young Girls or Teens

I know, technically the model in the picture isn't a teenager. But this hairstyle is a simple, easy way for anyone to create a cute hairstyle for their young girl or teenager. Even Dads can do this one.

It's perfect for school days or it can be "fancied up" for weddings or parties by adding in some inexpensive (fake) rhinestone or pearl pins.

Enjoy!

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Fighting with Your Child or Teenager About Their Hair: When to Give In and When to Put Your Foot Down.

 Raising a child in the 21st century is a day to day challenge. Being a child of the sixties myself, I thought that the issue of how kids wear their hair would have been laid to rest long ago. Wrong! Now that I have a fourteen year old daughter that has just started high school (no more middle school, thank you Jesus!) I realize that conflicts about hair are here to stay.

The fact that I am an award winning hairstylist with years of experience makes absolutely no difference to my child. I can't count the number of times she's said, "No way you're touching my hair. You don't know what you're doing!". My wife says to ignore her because she's just trying to yank my chain.

"AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!"

Let's just say that, I know that physical abuse is wrong, but I understand the motivation.

So, if your kid is insisting on wearing their hair longer, shorter, wilder, crazier or just plain uglier than you'd like, you need to just let it go and save your energy for something more important. A question like, "Mom, should I drop out of school now or wait until after I have the baby?" will make you forget all about the time she shaved the hair off of one side of her head.

Now here are a few things you will want to get all up in their grill about (forgive me, I talk to a fourteen year old every day / ask your own kid to interpret):

• Changing their hair color as frequently as they change their socks. Yes, Lady Gaga does it, but she has a team of pros that take care of that for her. Plus, it's really a wig anyway. Hair color is not like paint and it works in a very different way. At a certain point the hair is going to turn jet black or some weird mix of colors and probably break off. If it can be fixed by a professional it's going to cost a lot of money. I mean hundreds of dollars. Probably your dollars.
  
• Using "at home" chemical hair relaxers. It's not easy like it says on the box, it'll stink up your house and it can give you severe chemical burns! Even if it turns out okay, the residue stays in your hair until you cut it out, which can cause future chemical treatments to react and melt off their hair! I'm not exaggerating on that one.
  
• The rules are the rules. Most schools have some sort of guidelines regarding hair. Make sure that your son knows that sporting a yard long hot pink Mohawk is not worth repeating eight grade over. He can't impress the babes if they won't let him through the front door.
  
• If it takes an impossibly long time to maintain every day. My daughter was late for school every day for at least two weeks because of the time it took to flat iron her beautiful, naturally wavy hair. My solution was to take her to my salon and perform a "Japanese" straightener for her, which left it silky and pin straight. A week later she asked me for a waving wand for Christmas so she could have soft wavy hair like the other girls were now wearing. She's now late for school because of the time it takes to put wave back into her beautiful pin straight hair. So really, what do I know?

I'm starting to rethink that whole physical abuse thing. Good luck!

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