Share your hair tips/hacks for healthier-looking hair that don’t cost the earth - £200 voucher to be won

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Are you fed up with hair care products that cost a fortune? Let’s talk about affordable hair care. How your hair looks and feels can have a huge effect on your confidence and your mood, so we want to hear about all of your budget hair tips that help both you and your hair feel great.

• Post your tips in the thread below to be entered into a prize draw
• One lucky MNer will win a £200 voucher for a store of their choice.

Here’s what Garnier has to say:

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Thanks and good luck with the prize draw!

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Dont style your hair until its 80% dry, then get the round brush out and style away with less damage. 😉

Solid shampoo and conditioner

definitely a heatproof mouse when drying, and heat proof spray to protect before straightening. I know this can damage, but I have naturally coarse hair which needs straightening - and to protect from heat damage really helps the split ends and dryness.

A DIY caffeine hair mask - 2 teaspoons of coffee to 2 tablespoons conditioner - stimulates the scalp and follicles (advice from a trichologist) - once a week to keep results

Osmo Deep moisture mask on Amazon is an utterly barginous tenner for a massive 1200ml tub and it is salon quality . I adore it and cannot believe how good value it is .

If you have very long hair and you are considering getting it cut much shorter, you can donate it to The Little Princess Trust who make real hair wigs for children with cancer. I would like to do this any my hair is in very good condition because I look after it well being mindful that it’s going to this cause. My tip therefore is to make looking after your hair a priority.

Use olive oil on your hair on a weekly basis. Rub it in, leave for a couple of hours and then wash and condition as normal.

Use cold water as a final rinse after washing and conditioning.

Use a microfiber hair turban towel after washing hair, keep it on as long as possible so hair is almost dry and therefore needs minimal use of hairdryer.

I’m not ridiculing, I just don’t get it?! Can anyone explain?

My hairdresser recommended aloe vera gel with lemon and peppermint oils, It felt like my scalp was breathing afterwards and would recommend - (leave on a couple of hours)

Cold water rinse after shampoo, conditioner and 7 second water. Looks and feels much healthier and makes my hair less greasy which means less washing

a little Argan oil - about a half teaspoon in your hand, warm up and work through your hair - makes it super shiny and improves condition.

A leave in conditioner to help with brushing long hair, and use a wide tooth brush which does not scrape the scalp

I Wash with a decent shampoo, condition, final rinse in cold water blot with an old cotton teeshirt, add a couple of drops of camellia oil ( or other oil / serum of choice) comb through and leave to dry until %90 dry then wrap in a heatless curler and leave for a few hours or overnight, unwrap and finger comb the curls which last a day or two then relax into lovely waves giving my dry frizzy hair texture and no frizz. I only need to shampoo again after three or four days or when it starts to look greasy or messy.

HRT
Nice and Easy hair colour gives a lovely shine
Cut every seven weeks

Perhaps you've embarrassed them into explaining - If they want to buy a big brand - and share the cost - is'nt it a hack ?

Use a deep conditioner / mask before washing. So, apply it to damp, towel-dried hair, wrap in a turban and leave for at least 20 minutes. Then wash (twice) and condition as normal. Any hair mask will do, but I'm currently loving the Garnier Pineapple hair rinse. This technique works brilliantly on my long fine hair - leaves it shiny, bouncy and tangle-free.

What mousse do you use?

But why would you want to shampoo a banana?

[I'll get my coat.]

Once a month or so wash your hair with washing up liquid - it gets rid of all the build up and leaves it shiny and soft. This was a tip from my hairdresser!

Massage Coconut oil in your hair for 1 hour prior to washing. Game changer for really dry hair.

The jars of Coconut oil in Aldi / Lidl are perfectly fine.

Hello,

I'm from the Philippines and I have problems with thinning hair due to post partum.

I've been trying to find a reliable hair extensions brand here, but to no avail.
They're cheap looking and really don't blend with my hair.

i am at this point where I want to buy from reliable brands in AU and US. what do you think of this? I have tried so many anti-hairfall shampoo but my hairfall is still getting worse.

Any good brands like this?

https://www.perfectlocks.com/collections/human-hair-extensions

I'm hoping this is the end of my search for good hair extensions.

can you recommend any thing for me if you recently bought hair extensions as well?

Choose your parents carefully to ensure good hair genes.

Scalp massage, body volumising leave-in spray (I have very fine hair).

Regular haircuts. Booking your next cut before you leave the salon. Asking your hairdresser to show you how to do two styles. One everyday blow dry and one fancy up-do.

Im wanting to start my own business I’ve been thinking about it for ages I have 2 children aged 11 and 8 my children have piped up and said they will help etc I no they wouldnt all the time as they are kids but I’m not expecting them too as they have friends and wanna be out playing football or whatever etc also I no I can get someone to run the catering van if I wanna take the kids out for the day I no there’s a few burger vans out there but I’m thinking of getting a catering van for bacon and sausage cobs,full English breakfasts, burgers, cold sandwiches/cobs/baguettes also have homemade cakes and puddings available different variety on different days I have level 2 in food safety and awareness also level 2 in allergy awareness
All products cooked or used eg meats,bread,cobs,salad etc will be from local butchers,bakeries,greengrocers etc
Any help or suggestions will help even the negative comments! not that it will effect anything but everyone will have there say in anything.
MAIN QUESTION IS is it worth leaving my current job which is 15 -17 hours a week which is term time but it’s salary pay so I get paid while the kids are off!!