A cure for brittle hair

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My hair is very brittle, and I'm forever fishing wads of it out of the shower plug hole & pulling it out of my hair brush.

I've dyed it for the last 5-ish years using garnier nutriese after starting to get several greys and I naturally have very dark hair so the greys are annoyingly obvious.

For about 6 weeks I have ditched the hair straighteners, and tie up my hair still damp (wash it every 2 days). Unfortunately my hair is so wispy, I could not leave it to dry down as it looks a right state (hence the need for straighteners).

I eat reasonably healthily, but is there anything else I can do to prevent my hair from snapping so much?

you need to stop colouring it

also the tying up will break loads of hair

embrace your grey

get a decent cut

what shampoo do you use?

I have very brittle, dry hair and have found that both Kerastase and L'Oreal ReNutrition for Dry & Damaged hair are excellent.

I started off using the Kerastase for a month but it is expensive so when it ran out I then switched to the L'Oreal which I use every other day. I still use a Kerastase Masque Intense once a week.

This routine has totally transformed my hair from manky, wispy, unmanageable hair to lovely healthy "Hair Ad" hair, without the need for any styling products either

Also agree with BALD re: not tying it up. For a month I let it dry naturally, just going through it a couple of times with a wide toothed comb. Yes, it looked a bit "dragged through a hedge backwards" but I then pinned it up in a chignon once bone dry.

I began eating 3 brazil nuts a day (as recommended by another MNer) and that has had a great effect on both my hair and nails

The stuff that Cheryl Cole pimps is, in fact, brilliant. Can't remember what it's called but it's in a squat tub and says use once a week or something. I had been using it every time I washed my hair in the winter and all that hot house/dry wind damage was gone.

My mum swears by eating a cube of jelly a day but I've never heard of anyone else doing it!