How to get rich girl hair

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Do you know what I mean? Long, swishy, usually caramel coloured, yet frames the face well, doesn't just hang there. Really thick looking right to the ends. Looks low maintenance but can't tell if it is or not. I mean I presume it's styled somehow but it just looks like it falls into place naturally, which I suppose is the point

I like my hair long, and I like the look, but post pregnancy my hair is in awful condition and just sort of hangs around looking tired.

I'm not an entirely impoverished peasant, so I wonder is this achievable or do you have to be born with it?

Silk hair cap

Couchbettato,
Why haven’t you had a hair appointment for so long if you don’t mind me asking ?
As for wigs, my darling mum had breast cancer in 2000, can’t believe it was 20 years ago, she was 63 at the time and lost her breast and also her hair, but she was lucky if you call it that as she is still here today at 83, with a good head of hair. Lol
She had lots of wigs when she lost her hair and even though her hair grew back she loved her “wigs” and still used to wear them .
Nothing wrong with a good Wig.
X

I have this hair.

Honestly, it’s genetics. I often get asked if I have extensions. I don’t,

I wash twice a week. Once with a decent shampoo and deep conditioner, once with olaplex.

I don’t over colour my hair - once a year. It helps I’m not grey yet. I have balayage.

I think it’s the combination of genetics and taking very good care of it (so my hairdresser reckons).

My hair was always my literal crowing glory (even if everything else is a bit blah). Now at 42 it's still as much hair for two people, but it's decided to resemble a pantomime witch wig and seems to be living a life of its own 🙄 I would kill for poker straight, limp, thin hair that didn't seem to increase by at least 50% volume from the start of the day to the finish. My swishy hair days only occour after pissing about with hot oils, hair masks and in the weeks following a good thinning out haircut.

Oh, and I'll also add my hair is now so dry? Uncoloured, no products, no sulphates but literally as dry as fucking straw?! 🙄 Fucking hormones! On the other side of the spectrum my friend of the same age has instaworthy hair/skin, no grey, no wrinkles, smokes and drinks like we did in our 20's and still looks the same.. Bitch! 🤣 So I'd say yes to quality products and a good routine, but genetics will always beat it.

seems a bit problematic. Sadly everyone will know what that term is referring to though.

This

Babyliss big hair. Rough dry with a dryer that ncluding getting liafs from f volume into roots by holding head ipside down. You can use a tiny amoun if mousse in the hair while its still wet, then use the big hair hot styler and put each section in velcro rollers to coll down. Elnette. Fabulous stuff!

If you can afford to use olaplex its very good. Always ask for it to be used when having your hair coloured and then use the home products. I use the whole system shampoo, conditioner and olaplex 2/3 bond maintenance treatment. You need to build up the usage.

I used to have hair like this pre-DD. I had regular highlights and keratin treatments that made my frizzy hair lovely and smooth. I cut my hair short in a hormonal rage while pregnant and it has never been the same again.

Hair extensions and lots maintenance appointments

I want Alexis Rose's (from Schitt's Creek) hair. Sadly my hair is a wild, frizzy, greying mess. I will never have hair like Alexis Rose's.

It is a very white centric view though and calling it "rich girl" hair seems a bit problematic. Sadly everyone will know what that term is referring to though

Thing is, I don't see styles worn by WoC as being anything but classy - because I know how much care, time and expense goes into each style, whether they have chosen to have natural hair or not - so they all look 'rich girl' to me, as their hair shows the investment they've made in themselves. Which is essentially what 'Rich white Girl Hair' is. A way of showing the investment of time, money and nutrition in a way that appears effortless.

I eat well. I have a multivitamin a day. I use shampoo designed to deal with the issues I have to. I have the fucking injections each week . I minimise styling, heat and friction. And what happens is that my hair looks like that.

That's exactly it, MitziK. I first started thinking of it as "rich girl hair" because at university I was a young, skint single mother amidst a sea of beautiful young things who were all glowy and swishy, at a time when I had just had to throw out all of my clothes because my house was so damp, and I cut my hair with kitchen scissors and used the cheapest of everything on my hair and skin. I'm pretty sure I've done permanent damage, sadly. It's only in the last few years that I've been able to get anything other than a dry trim at the hairdresser, and a lot of style and beauty stuff is new to me because it's only now I have the time and a little more money to spend on it.

Incidentally, and off topic, but one of the university rich girls in my class was one of five sisters, they were sort of minor untitled gentry types, and she told me that when each of them started university, their mother would spend £££ and buy them each a really good "grown up" coat and boots. Plus some new outfits, but the coat and boots were the main thing. Her eldest sister still wore hers, they were proper quality items. As soon as I could, I set aside a few pounds here and there to do the same for my DC - it never would have occurred to me otherwise, but what a good idea.

People tend to lose hair after pregnancy. I found iron supplements really helped it to thicken up again. I also like protein pack stuff you leave on for a bit to improve the condition. Using a natural bristle brush makes it a bit shinier I think. When my hair is a bit limp I give it a rinse with about 5-10 ml of white vinegar in a litre of water as a very mild acid rinse and rinse that out. (Use a plastic jug with the vinegar and fill it with the warm water in the shower is easiest.) That seems to perk it up but don't be tempted to use full strength vinegar. Root lifter sprays might be helpful if you are blowdrying.

I have curly hair. I used to straighten or blow dry it a lot and had this sort of hair but now leave it naturally straight and not sure how to have polished curly hair

My hair isn’t that long and it’s not that colour as it would look utterly ridiculous. However it’s extremely thick and healthy. I don’t use particularly expensive shampoo but I do have regular curly blow dries by hairdressers who actually know how to do a blowdry so my hair generally looks posh and booncy

My hair was difficult to dry / frizzy until I tried this https://www.lookfantastic.com/paul-mitchell-super-skinny-serum-150ml/10547545.html?utmsource=ecrm-late-dispatch-1&utmmmedium=email&utmcampaign=ecrm-late-dispatch-1&affil=thgemail&ecrmcid=aPxqXoJElmKjvaxANPbrpVYWD7RdMBg6&shae=vu3YEADd%2FKL%2FRaJA3MPrxqqWiEituZu9UycPfzrzC9w%3D&sendTime=1599728655

Which silk hair ties are you using??

This sounds like a game changer as my hair does tend to break where hair bands rest

Can anyone recommend which silk pillowcases / turbans to buy? Especially if they’re the cheaper end of the range please!

I'd recommend a cheapie satin pillowcase and splurge on a silk turban (Silke on LookFantastic, use a code and get cashback too).

If you've already got smooth hair that doesn't tangle, just the satin pillowcase and wear your hair in a bun at night.

Plait overnight, biotin shampoo/ conditioner, avoid blow dryer, get those partial highlights (I can't remember what they're called, they don't go all the way up). My hair somehow unexpectedly turned into this hair over lockdown, this is what I did!

@Sciencebabe what brand is the shampoo you mentioned please?

What is the benefit of the silk pillowcase?

I have long hair but even on a linen pillowcase I don’t wake up to knotted hair or loads that has shed in the night

My hair looks infinitely better if I -

Towel dry my hair before conditioning it, like they do in the salon - obviously dilutes the conditioner less if excess water is removed

GHD split end cream in damp hair and brushed through - this is so good and smells amazing

Blow dry using a round brush, pointing nozzle down the hair shaft instead of at it! Not too hot, not too fast. Cool shot is also my friend

GHD straighten (other brands don’t work for me) each section of hair, then wind it round a Velcro roller and secure with a clip. Leave in as long as possible.

Remove rollers and rub a squidge of Percy & Reed no oil hair oil and wonder balm in to mid lengths and ends to stop it fluffing up

Not too much hairspray, makes me frizz, use root powders to give volume at the crown instead

I only wash my hair twice a week due to the above!

Honestly, I think it’s genetic if you are not a rich girl. I may be aging, fat and pasty pale, but I do have bloody good hair! It’s naturally very thick and stays in good condition without a lot of help from me so I can offer very little help. One thing I can think of, is that my hairdresser is in her late 60s and is incredibly good at that 1970s big swishy cut as it was how she was taught as an apprentice. I suspect that is a factor.