My 20 Hair Growth Habits (That Work!!)

No get that denman brush away from me and it broke my hair hi guys. It'S lana here welcome back to lana some summer time. It'S new year, it's 2022 we've got new year's resolutions, and i know a lot of you might have some new year's goals to grow your hair long. So here i am to share my hair growth secrets with you. This video is being sponsored by skillshare and we'll talk more about that a little bit later on in the video there's, no secret that my hair has been long for a minute. So i don't have any recent dramatic before and after photos to show you, but i can show you my haircut from kind of october time and you can see how my hair has grown since then. I get asked how i grow my hair, all the time and here's the secret. I don't even think about it, because everything that i do to grow, my hair is a habit and they work. It'S not a challenge. It'S not difficult to follow. This is what i do to keep my hair long and healthy, and it grows back so quickly whenever i chop it whenever i cut a fringe anything like that, i just want to explain something to start off with. So when i talk about hair growth, i'm usually actually talking about two things. So i'm talking about hair growth, actual hair growth that occurs at your scalp, i'm also talking about length retention in your hair. When you combine hair growth and length retention, that's when you can start talking about growing your hair, long, you're, growing your hair, long, okay. So a lot of these habits that i have some of them are focusing on growing your hair, and some of them are focused on retaining the link. So with that being said, if you're ready grab a paper and pen or open your notes app and let's get into it number one pre-poo, so i just want to start with the pre-poo, because that kind of comes at the start of your wash routine. So i feel like it's a good place to start here's the thing about pre-poos. I don't do them all the time, but if my hair has been deprived of moisture for a really long time, i always pre-poo, and i always do it. If that's the scenario so that's like, if my hair has been in braids for weeks or if it's been straightened for a few weeks, my hair hasn't seen any moisture and if i just dump a load of water on it and start shampooing right away. That can actually overload my hair. My hair can get a shock and it can get flooded and that can lead to hair damage. You don't want your hair to get damaged in any kind of way when you're trying to grow it long. So you just want to avoid that, so i like to use an oil-based pre-poo product, i actually practice saying that an oil-based pre-poo product can help to stop my hair becoming overly hydrated. It can protect my hair from damage which will keep my hair healthy and long number two as we're talking about shampoo, i never use a selfie shampoo. I don't want to spend too long here because i feel like this is very well known at this point. Sulfates really dry out your hair, which can lead to brittleness which can lead to breakage. So i just don't use them, and there are so many sulfate-free shampoos around at the moment. So this is really easy to stick to number three. I don't apply heavy products to my scalp. I never put heavy creams, butters or synthetic oils on my scalp, because those things can start to build up and clog your scalp, which will deprive it of moisture and that leads to an unhealthy scalp which leads to unhealthy hair. Unhealthy hair doesn't grow fast and it gets weak and it breaks. I remember when i was first starting out on my hair journey. I didn't know where i should be putting my leave-ins whether they needed to be right at the top and right now it's just a habit. I don't put leave-in products up at the top of my head. I probably start my leave-ins around about here number four. Sometimes i will do a clarifying treatment on my scalp, so that might just be like a very clarifying shampoo. As curly girls. We spend a lot of time just using sulfate-free shampoos, co-washes and that kind of thing every. Once in a while, i like to clarify my scalp and that's because even though you're not putting those heavy products on your scalp, like what i mentioned in the last point, you'll still end up with a buildup of sebum oil, grease, sweat and inevitably, there's gon na. Be products that do start to put up on your scalp, especially if you're, using like gel for a sleek style or something that stuff builds up and all of that just needs to be clarified off your scalp just needs a good refresh number five nourishing scalp treatments. This is going to be the last point on scalp, so i promise scalp is such a weird word scalp. So why would you want to nourish your scalp? Okay, so for one minute, just think of your hair, like a plant like your hair, is a beautiful flower and your scalp is the soil that the flower grows in and just like with plants, you add water to the soil, so we moisturize our scalp. You add nutrients to the soil. We add nutrients to our scalp, going to make your scalp so much better. At producing hair quicker it'll be shinier, it's going to be better hair, so there are all kinds of scalp treatments that you can use. Some of them like a cinnamon one, they just invigorate your scalp a little bit. They bring the blood which brings the nutrients. You can also use caffeine. I use one by grow gorgeous and i've recently just added it to my nighttime routine, so that i use it all the time i will link it down below this. Video is being sponsored by skillshare. Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes there are classes ranging from photography business management, anything through discovering classes on skillshare i've been able to experiment with so many of my interests and learn so much and build on my skills. I have personally watched videos on yoga and how to build my business and lots of elements of self-care as well. So one of my favorite series on skillshare is the ultimate self-care playbook by jonathan van ness from queer eye. So this series really teaches you how to plan your self-care, how to develop a routine helping me develop the habits that i'm talking about in this video skillshare has been so helpful for me and that's why i'm so happy to be working with them. So the first thousand of my subscribers to click the link in my description will get a one month, free trial of skillshare. So you can start exploring your creativity today. Okay, so we're moving away from scalps. Now we're talking about detangling number, six, so number six is that i only detangle my hair when it's got conditioner on it, because the conditioner makes your hair slippery like a fish, so the tangles separate so much more easily and you lose less hair. So obviously, if you're trying to grow your hair, you don't want to be losing hair, you don't want to breaking hair. This has been a habit of mine for years now and i just lose less hair number seven soy finger detangle and then i go in with a brush and i'm always super gentle and i use specific brushes. I'Ve been using tangle teezer, probably over five years. I just feel like they're the best brushes for detangling. I barely lose any hair with those it's a habit, that's just how i detangle and it has helped my hair so much. I just look back to when i was a kid and i didn't have tangle teezers and i didn't know how to detangle my hair properly. I would be there for i think hours just ripping through my hair, not knowing that i was doing anything wrong online. I see people using the denman brush to detangle and i don't get it. I don't get it because i find the demo brush to be so kind of rough and almost tacky feeling. I can't use that to detangle. I can use it for styling fine, but for detangling no get that denman brush away from me number eight. I try to deep condition my hair at least once a week. It can be difficult to find the time to do it once a week, but i feel like because it's my habit, i i tend to do it more often than i don't and that obviously helps to keep my hair healthy, healthy, scalp, plus healthy hair equals long Hair so deep condition: okay, let's talk about wash and go styling number nine. I always use a leave-in conditioner. I feel like it goes without saying you guys have seen so many of my wash routines. You know that i always use a leave-in conditioner. Looking back even seven or eight years ago, i don't think that i use the leave-in conditioner. Some of my favorites are by tgin floor and curl the coal company ryman reason i will leave them linked down below number 10. I brush my hair in the direction that i want it to go in when i'm wash and styling. I wish i could come up with a catchier name for this. I would style it all like this all upside down and then i would plop it upside down and then i would dry it upside down and then, as soon as my hair was dry, i would flip it all back and maybe i'd even put it into a Bun or something and my hair was getting insanely tangled, because my hair didn't know what the deal was. My hair was like okay, you want me to go this way, but now you just flip me back this way and it's all getting messed up, and i end up with a big bird's nest of tangles. On the back of my head one day, i said no more, no more of that these days i always style my hair down, because my hair is either always going to be down or if i uh, when i go to sleep at night, i will tie it Low and i will just kind of go like this i'll put it into a bonnet like that, my hair knows: what's up my hair is like okay. This is good. I won't tangle up because you prepared me for this. You know so my hair is never forward. So why would i brush it forward? It'S just asking for tangles. I don't know how to describe that, but that's just a habit that i have now, i think, is preventing me from having a lot of tangles, which is preventing me from losing hair, which is like my hair to stay long. I'M sorry for that awful explanation. Number 11: this might seem kind of counterintuitive, but i don't aim for perfect definition with every wash and go. I actually realized that having insane definition, all the time was causing more tangles, which causes more breakage and yada yada. So these days, i just let my hair do its own thing a lot of the time. It was actually a very easy habit to develop, because it just requires me to do less. Just don't need to be going through it with a denman brush and like refining. Every curl - i just don't, do that part and my hair prefers it number 12. I use a microfiber towel. Towels i use most often are specifically hair towels. It was just something i realized i haven't mentioned and i think it makes a big difference in not drying out my hair, not roughing up the cuticle, buy a microfiber towel and it will just become a habit to use it. I will leave my towels linked down below, so you guys can check them out number 13.. I wear protective hairstyles all the time. A lot of us are thinking like braids and things and you're, probably thinking when was the last time you had braids in your hair. Like when was that a protective hairstyle for me is something as simple as a bun, i have my hair in a bun, literally 99 of the time that is my natural state of being. I am a bun lover, i don't know i'm just. I never really like to have my hair around my face, like especially, if i'm out and about it's like where's, my peripheral vision, like i can't see, i can't and that's protective because my hair is not going to be rubbing on my clothes. It'S not gon na be rubbing on the back of my chair. It'S not gon na be getting attacked by the elements like today. It was snowing. I wouldn't have wanted to have my hair out in the snow, so i put my hair into a bun. It'S a good habit for me and i know a lot of people. It doesn't come natural to, like my sister, i don't think i've ever seen. My sister put her hair into a bun in her whole life. She literally spends 24 7 with her hair out. Like this, it's crazy to me. I can't i don't get it so. If you're not in the habit of doing protective hairstyles, then i strongly encourage you to start doing it more often number 14. I sleep with a satin bonnet on, and this is of course to protect my hair, while i'm asleep, while i'm asleep my head is going to be rolling around a lot on my pillow. I do actually sleep on the satin pillows, but i know that i've got product on my hair and i don't want the product to transfer onto the pillows and then transfer onto my skin. So that's why i have satin pillows and a satin bonnet. So the bonnets that i use are by my brand hitchy hair and they are my favorites. They are the only ones i've ever had that don't fall off of my head in the middle of the night. I will leave them linked down below and in fact i don't only wear my bonnet to bed, i kind of put my bonnet on. At the same time i put my indoor clothes on, so the body gets a lot of love number 15. I use satin hair accessories they're from my brand as well. So my brand is called head. She a head. She is a headband under scrunchie in one. That'S my favorite thing to wear wear is a headband. You can also bring it down, whereas a scrunchie. I wear those all the time doesn't cause kinks in my hair but, most importantly, it doesn't cause breakage in my hair. Even if i tie my hair tightly, that satin is so soft and smooth. It'S just not going to be rough on my hair. It doesn't tangle in my hair or anything like that number 16.. I have not bleached my hair this whole time this whole time that you guys have known me on this channel. Oh actually, i think, between my very very first video ever and then my second video ever that's when i colored my hair, because i got to a point where i was like my hair is healthy. Now i can color it. I think the fact that i have never really colored my hair definitely helps i'm going to be coloring it soon, i'm thinking february, because there's some specific size stylists that i want to work with and they're not going to be available for a little while wish me Luck: number. 17. I don't use heat on my hair very often if this was going to be like a hardcore hair growth tips video. I would tell you flat out: don't use heat on your hair because it's damaging, but this is not a hardcore hair growth tips. Video, this is a habits that i follow, that i do that. I want to share with you type video, so i do use heat on my hair. Sometimes really. I kind of limit straightening my hair to about once a year and i use like the smallest smallest amount of heat in my blow drying routine. The fact that i've limited the amount of heat that my hair gets so much definitely contributes to my hair staying healthy. So now that i hardly ever use heat on my hair, my hair growth is so quick number 18. I eat healthy and i take vitamins. I feel like that, definitely helps my body overall, not just my hair, but it helps my nails. It helps my skin. It helps my teeth, helps my whole body to be functioning properly. So, of course, that's going to help my hair and my scalp to function properly and grow my hair long number. 19. I regularly trim my hair. I know this one's going to be up for debate, but i used to be the kind of person that was like you don't need to trim your hair. You don't need to do this, one big chop and that's that that's all you need, but i check my hair and see if the ends are healthy and if not, i trim it and by keeping my ends healthy, it has enabled my hair to not only retain Its length but like to show show more length because i'm going to tell you an example, i told you before and people said it was helpful. So i'm just going to tell you again so just imagine you're doing all of this work. You'Re eating healthy you're, treating your scalp really well, your scalp's working really hard to grow this hair out of your scalp you're, just not taking care of the ends you're, just not even taking care of the hair that it grows. It starts breaking off. You don't see the hair growth you, you might even start seeing it go shorter if you're doing bleach and eating stuff, and the reason for that is because you get split ends. If your hair is damaged, if it becomes brittle and dry, it can get split breaks and you could have the option of cutting it here where it's still intact and then the ends will be intact or you just leave it, and you know with wear and tear It just starts to split, split, split, split breaks off and that's when you see your hair getting shorter i've been there. I'Ve witnessed it happen on my own hair, when my hair was bleached and when i used to straighten it a lot, it got shorter without me. Cutting it so now, i know the importance of just keeping those ends. Healthy, just trimming away ends just to make sure you get rid of those split ends. Number 20. I don't pull my hair too tight, and this is definitely a habit that i had to teach myself to do in 2020. 2021, because before that, in like 2019, i was really into sleek hairstyles, really tight, half up half downs. You know the the. What do they call it? The facelift ponytail? I was really into that and what happens you start to lose your edges? They start disappearing. You start to get breakage all around here where the ponytail sits. It ain't pretty. So i had to teach myself some hairstyles that looked good. I had to teach myself to love my hair when it wasn't sleek and i had to learn to love my face when it wasn't in a facelift ponytail and now it's a habit. Now i hardly ever tie my hair too tight, because i did start to notice that it was. It was damaging my edges and it was damaging my hair to do that. I actually had some breakage around my hair somewhere and it broke my hair. So there are some pieces that are like this long. I just had to learn some other hairstyles. So now you see me wearing like a really loose half up, half down or i'll, do a claw, clip hairstyle or something like that, and that has enabled me to keep my edges intact, but also to prevent breakage in the lengths of my hair as well. So that pretty much sums it up, those are the habits that i regularly follow that i have taught myself to stick to which enables me to not only grow my hair long from my scalp, but to keep that length in my actual hair as well. So i really hope that this video was helpful. Let me know if any of these things were new to you. I did try to really think about my routines and think about what i actually do on a regular basis. That might actually be helping me and planning this video has actually been an eye-opener for me, because i've actually realized some things that i was doing that i didn't even realize i was doing so. Thank you for being here with me. 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