Hi everyone, I'm Sarah Ingle. Welcome to the Queendom, and today we are talking about
hair care and how to get long hair.
I know there's a component of this that is genetic but there are certain things that I've found
That have helped me and my crazy long hair and I just want to share some of those with you
So if you're having problems getting your hair to grow past a certain length, hopefully these are helpful
So here are 18 tips for how you can get longer hair
14 of them are things I actually do and then the last four are things I've heard are beneficial, but I don't actually do myself
So maybe you can use them. Maybe I should use and we'll see as if my hair isn't already long enough.
Tip number one is super simple. It's just to brush your hair gently.
I noticed that people who have really long hair versus people who have short hair brush their hair
significantly differently and the reason I noticed this was actually with wigs
I was watching somebody who had shorter hair and brush the wig, and she would just
rip through that thing and just watching it made me cringe
But then I noticed people who also had really long hair were much gentler in how they brush their hair
So if you're ripping through your hair, you're breaking your hair off. Don't do that.
If you're just nice to it and gently from the bottom just just kind of gradually work your way up
Yes, it takes longer. But every time you're like [crrrrk hair rippy noise]
You're ripping your hair and people wonder why their hair breaks off
Number two is another really simple one that almost sounds like it's being a little sarcastic
But it's really not. Just find yourself a hairstylist who isn't scissor happy
Some hairstylists when you go and you're like, oh yes, I would just like a trim and then next thing you know
They chopped like six inches off your hair. Some people are just more prone to doing that than others. And so if you're not
constantly cutting a ton off of your hair
Then it's naturally going to be longer. So it sounds kind of snarky when I'm like, well just don't cut it
I'm not saying don't cut it at all
but
Don't cut a ton off of it
If you can find a hairstylist who also has long hair that might help. If she has super short hair and is always talking about
how she'd like longer hair, that might be a red flag [laughs]
Number three is probably what you've heard a million times, but it really is just
avoid using heat
Heat styling on your hair as much as possible. But if you do always use a heat protectant.
I brought one here
I don't have any particular
Preference on brand but this is just one. You just spray it in your hair, and it helps protect your hair from the heat
But avoid it if you can like I very very rarely
straighten or curl my hair and if I do, I try and do it a heatless way.
Number four is avoid
super tight ponytails. This isn't even so much for length, but you'll actually wind up ripping your hair out
Particularly in the front when you pull it in the really tight bun or in a tight ponytail and
Ripping your hair out anywhere is is not good
Plus it tends to get caught in the little pony tail scrunchy thing and then you're breaking the hair off. In fact...
recently, I went to Amber Arden's
bridal shower and wound up getting a hair tie caught in my hair and Tracy Hines miss miss mermaid
uh had to cut it out of my hair cuz it got stuck
So if you can avoid doing those and doing them in little tiny twisties, that's good
You don't want to have to cut it out of your hair
Number five: If you're going swimming -- oh my goodness
Braid your hair before you go swimming if you go -- I mean, anybody if you already have long hair
You know if you go in the water and it's not braided,
it's gonna be so tangly when you get out. You don't even want to think about it
It, just it almost gives me anxiety even thinking about it.
And every time your hair gets tangled, you've got to go through it and risk breaking hairs off
So if you just put your hair into braids
Before you go in the swimming pool
You're gonna make your life easier and you're gonna make your hair happier and not risk breaking it off
Number six: Don't wash your hair too much. I know that sounds kind of weird and kind of gross
It used to be more gross before the advent of dry shampoo
If you wash your hair too much
you're stripping all those natural oils out of your hair -- the natural oils that keep your hair all nice and
not breaky, it's not good
You need those natural oils in your hair to keep your hair nice and as much fake oils as you put in your hair
It's never quite the same as the oozy stuff that comes out of your head
[laughs]
That's really gross. If you do feel like you're somebody who needs to wash your hair everyday, what I recommend is
this stuff called New Wash I talked about this on a favorite things video probably like
Three years ago at this point. This stuff cleans your hair with oils
so it doesn't have a detergent in it and you can wash your hair every single day with this and it doesn't even require a
Conditioner because it basically is a conditioner. You're somehow like
cleaning your hair and
Washing it at the same time (I meant to say conditioning it at the same time. Oops)
Number seven: Make sure you brush all of the tangles out of your hair before getting in the shower
It's gonna be a lot easier to do that while your hair is dry
Then once it gets all wet, and it gets all knotty
and nasty plus you've got one extra chance there to move all the oils through your hair before you go in the shower and
Rinse it all out.
That actually leads really well into number eight
Which is don't brush your hair while it's wet. If you need to
Untangle your hair while it's wet use a wide tooth comb or like a pick to really gently
gently get out
all the mess because your hair actually becomes more fragile when it's wet.
[mehhp meehp noises]
You just gently, gently gently
Number nine is use shampoos that are gentle. I don't have any specific recommendations
I mean I did talk about the New Wash
the New Wash
That's not technically even a shampoo. It's not even a co-wash. It just somehow magically washes your hair with with oil
I don't know. I'm not gonna like recommend any specific
ones but there's some that like you'll read that they're really bad on your hair and they'll dry it out
Just make sure you choose one. That's either like oh, it's for long hair or for damaged - I
I personally find the ones that say they're
for damaged hair are probably ones that are gentler on your hair in the first place so you don't cause the damage
So I tend to veer that route
And just make sure I'm not using something like a product on it that's going to to damage it
Number 10 is a tip that involves teasing
first of all
If you can avoid at least severely teasing your hair like crazy
teasing, that and honestly probably avoid teasing it at all if you can, but if you do have a time where it's
Severely severely teased
And I've had times what it was severely severely teased
I used to model and one time I've had a couple times so they like teased it out to like
here and it looks like there's a chia pet happening and you're like
"What am I gonna do?!" I literally couldn't get a brush through it
and that's a scary thing for a person with really long hair. What you do to get that out is
Just take a bottle of conditioner and coat your head in it
And once your heads totally coated in conditioner
You can comb it out and still tedious, but in case somebody does that, don't fear my long-haired friends,
who've had your hair severely teased, you can get it out
But seriously just coat it in conditioner because if you just try and brush through that, you're gonna wind up breaking your hair
Conditioner's your friend.
Number 11 is let the conditioner soak into your hair while you are showering
So a lot of times what I'll do is I'll shampoo my hair
And then I'll condition it and then I'll like shave and shave the legs and stuff. So
while you're shaving you can let the conditioner soak in, kind of do its thing and be on your hair, so you're not just
conditioning it and then immediately rinsing it out
Number 12 almost seems a little counterintuitive or a little bit contradictory to number two
But number 12 is actually you do need to trim your hair. Trim the ends. Find yourself a hair stylist who can trim it for
you I probably
really need a trim and
Something I do and people always ask me what do you do for your hair
This is what I do and maybe there's going to be a hairstylist out there who's gonna be like
"Why are you doing that? Stop."
I literally take a tiny little pair of scissors and if I see a split end like down here somewhere
I will just I'll just cut it off like look. There's one.
You can't sit there and individually snip off all the ends of your hairs
But if you happen to see one, I'm a big weirdo
And I I snip it off.
Number thirteen is something that I've noticed that was actually a tip
That's for your skin. And that's sleeping with a silk pillowcase.
And the thing is it's not only nicer on your skin and doesn't pull on your skin as much, but I've found it doesn't
pull on your hair and tangle your hair up as much so your hair is
more intact in the morning
And that means less brushing in the morning and less tangles and less ripping your hair out.
Number 14
All my long-haired friends, I'm sure you can relate to this
Don't drive with the windows all down in your car
Unless your hair is in a braid or secured some way because it's just gonna tangle your hair so much.
The winds gonna blow it every which way and you're creating all these knots in it and then you're gonna have to like
Sometimes literally can't get them out. It gets so bad. It's
Just [sigh] I strongly suggest
Braiding your hair or at least putting it into a ponytail, though not a SuperDuper tight one
The last four are all ones that I either don't do on a regular basis
I think there's at least one that I have done but they're things that I've read are good for your hair
That might be good for you to try, too.
Number fifteen is different hair masks and treatments that you can leave in your hair.
I've heard a lot of things about Olaplex
I don't really know
almost anything about it besides like what I've read on the internet which isn't a lot, but it might be something worth asking your
hairstylist about especially if you bleach your hair a lot
I've had brands like give me stuff and I like tried it out
But it's not something I regularly do. So I didn't want to include it
in the "these are all the things that I do"
That actually leads into Number 17 quite well
17
[slowed down, low voice] Seventeen
Because that is actually
avoiding coloring your hair or bleaching your hair as much as possible
That is one that I don't follow the advice
obviously. if you really really really want really long hair and you're struggling and you can't
Then don't don't bleach it because bleach is really hard on your hair. Bleach is hard on everything.
I mean you can clean your toilet with it. Why are we putting it in our hair?
Color -- I think some people have this idea that coloring your hair is is not bad for it
But from what I've read it can cause damage to your hair, too.
There might be some brands that do that less than others
And like some advertise, "Oh, it's good for your hair." [claps hands]
I don't know if that's true or not
But if you have avoid it altogether, you know what,
you're probably more likely to be able to get your hair to grow really long
Number 17 is
Hair Vitamins
As if there hasn't been enough talk on YouTube lately about hair vitamins
I think we all know that these exist
I've had brands give them to me before
and I've taken them for short periods of time because I want to take them before I ever
talk about them, but it's not something that I use
I mean I've used them like a few times ever and my hair still this long. It's been years
It's probably been like three years since I've taken a hair vitamin, and yet, I can actually now sit on my hair
for the first time in my life. It's a little... weird.
We're finally ready to move on to the last tip
Number 18 is just one I read that says that every night before bed
You should brush through your hair to distribute the oils,
and that actually makes a lot of sense and that's one that I might start doing.
Plus, you go to bed with
fewer tangles and it's probably gonna get less tangley as the night goes on kind of similar to
brushing through your hair before
you get in the shower to eliminate those tangles. If you keep the tangles from getting too bad in the first place
then...
I don't know, you're just preventing it from getting worse and worse and worse
to the point where you're breaking your hairs to try and get it untangley.
I think the overall gist of this was
Avoid the heats, avoid the harsh products,
and do things you can to avoid getting your hair super tangly where you're in those situations
Where you're tempted to brush through really hard and wind up breaking your hair
So those are all 18 of my tips for how you can get longer hair
So you guys should let me know if you found any of those helpful
Tell me which ones you do already, which ones are new for you, and tell me how long your hair is.
I'm really curious.
You guys are all gonna get measuring tapes out and be measuring your hair. I had someone on a live stream
asked me not too long ago how long my hair was. And at that point in the live stream, I took a
measuring tape out and measured it and it was about 3 feet long
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Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
It's all foofy.
That's gonna be like another GIF
The hair in my face right now long hair problem -- actually this isn't a very long one.
Avoid using heat [tongue-tied]
[gibberish]
[laughs]