How To Have Your Best Hair Days Over 50 || With Hair Biology & Tips From My Hairdresser

Let'S talk about how to have your best hair days after 50.. Today'S video is sponsored by hair biology, hello, ladies and welcome to today's video three big things have happened since you last saw me here one I turned 59 years old, happy birthday to me. I am inching very close to 60 now. Second, I spent a good hour at my hairdresser's chair this past week got a new do, but I also got lots of info to share with you and then third hair biology reached out to me with some new products to try that I hadn't been trying before And they wanted me to share a little bit with you about my experience with hair biology, which actually dates back about two or three years. Now that I have been using these products, so you know what here's the truth after we you know, go through menopause or in those premenopausal perimenopausal years, whatever, as we age, our hair changes and one of the things I love about hair biology, this just go ahead And get this on the table is that they are a pro aging hair brand and I love that because they recognize that our hair changes. We know it, don't we we know our hair has changed like me. Perhaps you have experienced some hair loss. It was about five years ago. I think it was right after I started blogging that I began to have some major hair loss now. Fortunately, that only lasted a season for me like a year, maybe that I continued to have some hair loss and some thinning and since then of a little bit, I think if my hair has grown back a little bit. It'S gotten a little bit thicker again, but I still do not have nearly the hair that I had just 10 years ago. Of course. Another thing that's happened with my hair. Is I've turned gray and I let it go gray. So that was my choice, but it was either that or continuing to color right, so either way, you're in a dilemma and then another thing that happens as we get older is our hair gets drier and it's just hard to retain moisture, and so because of that, Our hair just tends to look more fly away and more dry, and it also breaks more and it begins to thin because of that also, and then a fourth problem that I really didn't even realize until my hairdresser was talking to me about it, is that your Hair changes shape because, as we get older and there's damage accumulation and just that loss of moisture, our hair kind of gets those bent shapes if you notice that, and so therefore it looks more wiry and more out of control um, you know, like you just can't Even do anything with it some days, so those are four of the main issues that we run into with our hair is, of course, turning gray, moisture and hair loss and then also just that damaged hair that just gets unruly. So today, let's talk about that. Let'S talk about some of the things I learned from my hairdresser: she is a wealth of knowledge. My hairdresser actually just spent a week in New York working here at New York's fall and winter fashion shows she worked. I think three or five of the different fashion brands there doing hair for them. So I know my hairdresser knows what she's talking about and she gave me some good tips tip number one that my hairdresser gave me was you've got to use good products. In fact, she said really good hair is all about good products, and she says I have really great hair. She says, especially for my age, my hair is very healthy. It is very vibrant, it does retain moisture pretty well, it's you know. Looking pretty good for my age and, like I said, my hair loss is kind of minimized too, and I have to kind of think a lot of that Health has to do with hair biology. I have been using hair biology almost since they came out several years ago and I've loved it. I'Ve used several of the different lines. Let me tell you about the different lines of shampoo and conditioner. They have hair biology, does have a line of shampoos and conditioners for color treated hair. It is called Vivid and protected and it actually will protect the color of your hair for up to two times longer. It'S infused with Biotin and it helps your hair to retain the moisture it needs. They have a shampoo, a conditioner and a color ceiling mask all those things really great for color treated, hair, hair biology has a new line called long and Revitalize this shampoo and conditioner duo will strengthen your hair and protect it against the Heat products that you use. On your hair, it's infused with biotin to strengthen it. It also repairs damage and rebuilds breakage. The long and revitalized collection is not just for long hair, but I do think it would really make it where you can grow your hair out long and it will still look healthy. You know, I think one of the reasons that so many women have their hair short as they get older is because our hair just gets so unhealthy that it doesn't look as good long as it used to. But with this new long and revitalized collection, you will get a treatment that rebuilds and it strengthens and nourishes your hair, it's infused with Biotin and it also is safe for color treated hair. I have used hair biology, silver and glowing collection, and I love it. The silver and glowing collection reduces that dulling residue, that your hair sometimes get as it turns gray, and it also makes it more shiny and vibrant. So sometimes I will alternate using the silver and glowing collection with the collection I'm using now, which is the full and vibrant, shampoo and conditioner. The full and vibrant, shampoo or conditioner are really created. For those of us who have experienced some hair loss is going to help you enjoy weightless cleansing and hydration to bring back fullness and body to your fine, thin or flat hair. It'S also infused with Biotin, and it is safe for color treated hair. But this is really going to help to thicken and nourish that thin flat hair, and it's just really going to make it look so much stronger and healthier in this collection. They also have a thinning treatment, so you apply this treatment either after you've, gotten it out of the shower and your hair is still wet, or you also can actually apply it every day, even to dry hair, and what you want to do is shake it really. Well and then apply about 15 pumps to the root bait. You know root of your hair, so I just kind of draw some lines in my hair and go through and give a nice little thin line of the treatment product all over my scalp and then I just massage it in really gently getting it really thoroughly into All the places along my scalp and even out onto my hair, I tell you what I really noticed my hair feeling a lot lighter and Fuller. Since I've started using this particular line of hair biology, shampoo and conditioner, it really is making it almost have so much body that I have to kind of tame it down a little bit. But I love the way it feels it feels so light and I feel, like my hair stays really clean for several days as I use this shampoo because the product is so light, it's really very, it's not heavy on my hair, so it doesn't build up. You know, like some products, do I have enjoyed using these products for several years now, and I really think that you'll like this line, that really is created for women over 50 and the unique needs that our hair has shop these and the other hair biology products At your local Meijer, or through the link below in the description box now, the next tip that my hairdresser gave me is that we need to have a good haircut. She told me that, as we get over 50, it just becomes even more important that we maybe keep up our hair appointments a little bit more often, even just so that our the ends of our hair are really nice, and even you know things that just look Really trimmed and really freshly cut because, like I said, we had that kind of a damaged looking hair, it gets kind of wiry and all that sort of stuff as we age and a good haircut can really take care of that. My hairdresser also suggested that we use heating products as rarely as possible, and that means that probably you also need to wash your hair as rarely as possible. I usually go at least three days without washing my hair. Sometimes I actually probably could even go four or five or six, but I don't want it to stink. So so I don't do that, but she did say that it you can wash less often, then it will actually make your hair so much healthier. Now what I do to dry, my hair is, I use a diffuser and that really helps my hair to dry kind of. Naturally, if you use a diffuser like I'm doing here, what you're doing is you're just applying some of that heat. That'S just really spreading out. It'S diffusing over your hair, so it's not blowing your hair and it lets it kind of dry with its natural waves and curls in it. That leads me to the next tip that my hairdresser gave me, and that is to get a style and a haircut that allows your hair to do what it naturally does. If that's possible now. I know some of us just have like just hair that just kind of lays flat - maybe you don't do anything to it? Maybe you need to do some styling, but you know really. It'S only been in the last couple of years that I've really decided. You know what I think I just want to style my hair. In a way that looks a little bit more natural. I can still pull out my straight iron, my flat iron, you know and do that style if I want to sometimes - and I probably will, but it's going to take care of my hair better, it's going to keep it healthier. I do believe if I will use this diffuser and just let my hair do what it wants to do. So I just go around my hair, very gently, diffusing up I'm applying some heat, and then I have a little button on my hair dryer so that I can apply a cool. You know some cool here and that cool air is what sets in those waves. Those curls, whatever you have, and so you want to apply the cool air last before you pull the hair dryer away from your hair. Now, if you don't have a diffuser, here's a tip that my hairdresser also gave me this one was mind-blowing. She said. If you don't have a diffuser, but you want to try it and see how that would work for you get your kitchen colander and try that with your hair dryer. So here you can see me doing that you just I have a small one. If you have a big one doesn't matter, she says she sees people online using all sorts of things, so you want to use this colander, like you. Would that diffuser, so maybe just put some of your hair in that colander and then take your hair dryer, put it on kind of a low setting medium to high heat and then you're going to do the same thing that I do so you're just going to Blow that you know the heat into the colander area, where your hair is and then also they'll blow some cool air in and just kind of back and forth, ending with the cool air take the colander away. If you need to scrunch up a little bit - and you can do basically what I'm doing here with my hair, but with that colander now I did a little bit with the colander and then I put that aside and use my diffuser. But I do think that's a good thing to try if you don't have a hair dryer with it, if you user, and you want to try this out, so it really is smart. I think, as we get over 50 and we're wanting to have kind of a modern natural hairstyle that just looks fun and fresh, I do think after we're 50 or just you know, as we get older, there's no magic age, but as we get older, that more Relaxed hairstyle that more natural hairstyle is going to make us look a little younger without us trying to look younger and therefore ending up looking foolish. So it's just really going to make you beautiful to kind of go with those natural ways and curls. If you have them and if you want to highlight them and use them, my hairdresser also said once again along those same lines of not washing. As often she said. If you are a woman who washes your hair every day and then therefore you use heating products on every day to try, try, try, try to go a day without washing it, and then you know wash it every two days and try that for a couple of Weeks see how it works for you, you and then maybe stretch it out to like every three days, if you possibly can more than likely, if you think your hair is getting oily between washes and that's why you're washing it so often, she says it's probably because You'Re over stimulating that oil production in your scalp by a using all those heating products on it every day and B, just by washing it and stripping it of its natural oils. And so your hair is replied. Your your hair, follicles, your roots of your hair, are replacing that oil, because you're stripping it away. So if you'll just give it a little time make it a little experiment, try to go a little bit longer without washing your hair. You actually may find that you can do that and the texture and the strength and the the vibrancy of your hair might actually improve with some time now. Another question I always get so I asked my hairdresser. This is what's the best haircut for any given woman moment like how do you know how to find the best haircut, and she said, of course you want something that flatters you you know so just kind of I always just kind of hold my hair up and Look and see - and I had I had done that before I got my hair cut off this last week - I just kind of held it up to see what I thought about it being chin length and everything, and I liked what I saw and then, of course I asked my hairdresser's opinion too. So that's a good thing, too, is just to ask your hairdresser, find you a good, knowledgeable hairdresser, who Styles hair in a modern way and ask her opinion, but you also want to ask her: what does my hair do? What does it want to do? She had a good time telling me about how her mom has some different calyx. Don'T I do too, you know all through your hair, you get those little places where your hair wants to go a certain way or other, and if you'll just let a hairdresser, help you to work through those places and help you figure out what to do there. It could make all the difference. So what I do honestly is, I just go through my my hair with that diffuser all the way around. I do my bangs, I smooth them out just so. I can work with them a little bit better and then after I've done all that, if I need to, I will use a curling wand. Now, a curling wand is a little different from a curling iron. Just in case you don't know, and that is that the curling iron wand you're actually starting the curl kind of towards the root of your hair instead of at the end. So, with with a curling iron, you start the curl at the end and roll up with a curling wand, you're, going to start towards the root of your hair, the base of your hair and then add the hair all the way out towards about an inch or Two away from the end of your hair is not even going to be there, so that kind of gives you more of that kind of a beachy Wave. It'S kind of you know, kind of that natural wave look and that's what's so appealing about using a curling wand. It just is a little bit more modern, looking it's not quite as Pat or set looking it's more natural waves. So I do do that. If I need to, and what she suggested was the next tip she gave was to do something with your hair. She said really up until about the time of covid the pandemic in 2020. She said it was interesting. She said probably 50 percent of women that she knew just didn't do anything to their hair. She says, since the pandemic, that more and more women are doing their hair and that it's a good thing that we need to put a little effort into our hair. She suggests putting about five minutes into your hair each day, if necessary, and one of the things that she suggested for me and she said, would probably work for so many of my viewers would be just to take that curling wand and add, maybe, like eight little Waves around your hair, so I just take a little strand of hair like in the front, do a little curl. Then I go back to a little bit. Take another Strand and I curl it the other direction with the curling one. So like maybe one goes back. One goes forward. The next goes back. The next goes forward, and that gives you to where you're not getting that Farrah Fawcett. You know everything goes back. Look it's a little bit more of that natural wavy. Look instead! So now here's you know. I'Ve done my hair for you today and then right now. What you're seeing is. I think it's been about an hour and a half two hours since then - and I have not you know, touched it again. I haven't taken the hair dryer to it, the curling wand, the curling iron anything I haven't done anything else to it. The only thing I do is I take my fingers and I go through my hair and I just kind of get it to do what I'd like for it to do with my fingers. I just kind of shape it into place and then I might put a little hairspray on there if I need to so that's really how I do my hair is just with that diffuser, maybe sometimes with the curling wand and then my fingers and I can always Actually, even pull some of the curl out if I want to and I've gotten to where I kind of like to put it behind my ears. Just so there's not so much curl in the front of my face - and I can you know, opens up my face. A little bit and puts more of the way waves and the curls back towards the back kind of feel, like it's setting me off a little bit more like that now. Another product by hair, biology that I use is their Argan Oil, taming serum. So one of the reasons I like this is another tip my hairdresser gave me is that what's really modern right now is to have some body to have some fullness in your hair, but then to tame it down a little bit. Not you know you don't want to just be too much, and so, as you can see, when I get through diffusing my hair there's a lot of wave and a lot of curl. Now that usually dies down as the day goes on, but I have found that applying just one little squirt of this Argan Oil, rubbing it back between my hands to kind of heat it up just a little bit and disperse a little bit, and I just gently Like I said with my fingers: go through my hair with that product, getting it all over my hair, that oil does several things. It closes up some of those hair follicles it just you know it really makes them more healthy. It gets that bend out that I mentioned before, of how our hair has that kind of a damaged look. It makes it not look as wiry, and you know kind of spidery all over my head, and I think it really does tame it and also, I think it just kind of gives me a pretty shine. I love the shine that this Argan Oil gives to it kind of locks in some moisture, and it just makes my hair feel so much healthier. You can apply the oil also to wet hair, but then I think you probably don't want to use heating products. On top of that, I would suggest if you're going to use a heating, you know tool like a hair, dryer or an iron or a wand, or anything you'd want to use that first and then apply the oil. But you can also apply this oil. The next day or the next just to kind of freshen, your hair up a little bit and once again get rid of that wiriness. So I hope those tips have been helpful to you today. Boy, it's a dilemma: isn't it getting older, but it's a good thing. It is an empowering thing and that's one of the things I love about hair biology is, they also are pro aging so be sure to check out their products through the link below, and I'm so appreciative to them for sponsoring today's video. But, of course all the opinions have been completely my own, like I said, I've been using these products for a long time and I really love them thanks for visiting today. Ladies, if you haven't already subscribed to my channel, I hope you will do that ring that little bell and that way, you'll get a notification every time I upload a new video, which is every Wednesday and I'll, see you again really soon bye. Now, foreign