HAIR CARE TIPS
Treat them like your natural hair.
- Be sure to use a moisturizing formula shampoo. The more that a shampoo moisturizes, the better it will be for your hair.
- It is not a good idea to wash extensions that are glued or clipped in along with your natural hair. These should be removed and treated separately.
- If your extensions are sewn in, you can wash them along with your natural hair in the shower.
- Be gentle, though, so that you don't loosen your extensions. If you're too rough with them, they won't last as long.
Use sulfate-free shampoo.
- Sulfates are the cleaning detergents in shampoos that cause them to foam.
- Sulfates are effective cleaners. However, they can dry out the natural oils in your hair that serve to protect it.
- Your body is constantly creating new oils for your natural hair, but your extensions do not have a direct supply, so you need to be very careful about drying them out.
- Sulfates can cause split ends to form in your hair.
- Sulfates can make your hair look dry or frizzy over time.
Use conditioner.
- Each strand of hair has a protective cuticle layer. Not only does the cuticle layer protect the hair strand, it also reflects sunlight which gives your hair its shine.
- Conditioners give your hair back its body and shine by releasing positively charged particles that latch onto the negatively charged parts of your hair and repair the cuticle layers.
- Make sure not to leave conditioner in for more than 30 minutes, unless you have curly extensions.
- With Curly extensions leave-in conditioner can be added to these about once a week, but make sure not to create a lot of build up from the conditioner.
- Rinse them out before each conditioner treatment.
Washing your extensions.
- Don't wash your extensions every day.
- Just like your normal hair, they'll become dried out if you over-wash them.
- Wash them about once every 2 weeks or whatever suits you, just don’t wash them too often
Drying your hair.
- Blow-dry or let your hair air dry completely before going to bed. You should NEVER go to bed while your hair extensions are wet.
- Wet hair extensions will bunch up causing tangles to form. As you move around in your sleep, the tangles in your extensions could get stuck and pull on your natural hair, damaging it.