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I didn't care for my knock off Denman, but the difference is supposed to be the way the bristles are made. Denmans don't have those little balls at the end nor do they have little places in which hair can catch at thr base of the bristle. You can also modify the Denmans by removing rows of bristles. I just use seamless combs and my fingers ftr.

Sent from my SGH-T959 using LHCF
 
Kindheart said:
Is there anything i can do to prevent gray hair ?
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Short of shaving your head...No! You can cover it but you can't prevent it. I don't have a lot of gray but what I do have is in my way. Hair doesn't actually turn gray, it loses the component in hair that gives it color. Mine also loses any desire to act like the rest of my hair which drives me crazy.
 
[USER=266942]Kindheart[/USER];17787621 said:
Is there anything i can do to prevent gray hair ?
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Well, a copper deficiency has been linked to graying along with other aging. Dr Pickart who specializes in copper peptides and is the owner of www.skinbiology.com writes:

Reduce Graying of Hair- Hair becomes gray with age but the speed that this happens may depend on the adequacy of available copper in the scalp. Melanin and other hair pigments are produced from the amino acid tyrosine by the action of tyrosinase, a copper-containing enzyme. Additional scalp copper might slow this graying process and our clients at Skin Biology have often reported the re-pigmentation of gray hair after using our Folligen products.
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Here is another interesting article: http://www.kingmaker.net/trustme.html#19
 
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Kindheart said:
Thanks @Nonie ,i have another question, is there a way to increase my hair density?
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@Kindheart, I don't think you can have more hair follicles than you were born with, so if you always had thin hair (few hairs on your head), then you probably will always have that.

If you have few hairs due to bad diet, or hormones, or some type of condition, then improving whatever is causing some follicles not to produce hair may help.

Now supplements like B5 and topical products like copper peptides are said to thicken strands. They won't make a difference to the strands already showing on your head but maybe the new growth will appear thicker. The link I gave you to Dr Pickart's site above has more info on copper peptides and hair growth.

My only experience with copper peptides was when I tried to grow my eyebrows. I didn't get new hair where none was but I think they did thicken my hair a touch. The suggestion IIRC is to use them with minoxidil (the active ingredient in Rogaine) but I'm not a fan of minoxidil because you have to become a slave to it if you want to keep the hair you grow. I do not like to be that dependent on anything so I only tried the copper peptides. I still haven't finished the bottle I got some years back...coz *shrug* I wasn't seeing enough of a change to my eyebrows to make me want to make it a staple. It was just easier to draw in my eyebrows than keep flogging a dead horse--or so it seemed. But others have had good experience with it.
 
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So what exactly is the pineapple thing people keep talking about? I just don't get it! :lol: Is it just a bun on top of your head at night? I just don't see how it works...:help2:
Nonie? Anyone?
 
@JustGROWwithIt, I've never done it but I've figured it's to do with piling hair atop your head with the sides smoothed up, just from discussions on the forum. Some people wear it as a style. Some people use it to preserve a curly style or twist-out/braid-out/knot-out as the hair is kept lifted away from the sides and back so that when they lay their heads on a pillow, they're not squashing the coils/hair pattern.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQEtkzG-zDU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccJYbFFgJkA
 
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@JustGROWwithIt, I've never done it but I've figured it's to do with piling hair atop your head with the sides smoothed up, just from discussions on the forum. Some people wear it as a style. Some people use it to preserve a curly style or twist-out/braid-out/knot-out as the hair is kept lifted away from the sides and back so that when they lay their heads on a pillow, they're not squashing the coils/hair pattern.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQEtkzG-zDU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccJYbFFgJkA
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Thanks, Nonie!
That's kind of what I figured, but I wasn't too sure. I'll have to try it sometime...
 
If you relax using the half and half method, do you have to have a removable shower head? How do you keep from getting the covered side wet when you're rinsing the side you relaxed?
 
Why is Giovanni Direct Leave-In listed as a protein-based conditioner? I am looking at the ingredients and trying to figure it out.

Ingredients: Aqua, Aloe Vera Leaf Juice, Sunflower Seed Oil, Soybean Seed Extract, Birch Extract, Mallow Extract, Yarrow Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Horsetail Extract, Lavender Extract, Rosemary Leaf Extract, Clary Extract, Thyme Extract, Coltsfoot Flower Extract, Nettle Extract, Grapefruit Extract, Cetyl Alcohol, Vitamin E, Panthenol, Citric Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Natural Fragrance
 
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Why is Giovanni Direct Leave-In listed as a protein-based conditioner? I am looking at the ingredients and trying to figure it out.

Ingredients: Aqua, Aloe Vera Leaf Juice, Sunflower Seed Oil, Soybean Seed Extract, Birch Extract, Mallow Extract, Yarrow Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Horsetail Extract, Lavender Extract, Rosemary Leaf Extract, Clary Extract, Thyme Extract, Coltsfoot Flower Extract, Nettle Extract, Grapefruit Extract, Cetyl Alcohol, Vitamin E, Panthenol, Citric Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Natural Fragrance
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@PJate- I know at one point it had soybean protein, but the ingredients you listed show soybean seed oil. Maybe they took the rote in out at some point.
 
Someone please tell me... What is liquid gold? A product? A pseudo name for something else?
What are the benefits... Moisture?
 
has anyone mixed liquid keratin with their conditioner and or color before applying? I had a salon owner tell me that he does to his clients and it makes their hair stronger and glossier. Anyone ever done this? TIA
 
Does your hair get that heavy seaweed feeling every time you wet it???

I'm happy because I got it today, but this is only the second time and I keep forgetting it's possible. It's not the conditioner because I've had this one in my arsenal a while (Vo5 Lime which is kinda lightweight).
 
blackviolet said:
has anyone mixed liquid keratin with their conditioner and or color before applying? I had a salon owner tell me that he does to his clients and it makes their hair stronger and glossier. Anyone ever done this? TIA
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I've used a protein fill before hair color. Not sure if thats the same thing. It makes the hair take color more evenly and my hair was shiny.
 
I've used a protein fill before hair color. Not sure if thats the same thing. It makes the hair take color more evenly and my hair was shiny.

Thanks for your input :yep:

He showed me a bottle of liquid keratin and said he mixes it with conditioner or prior to a process; color, perms,etc.

Just wondering if it really does what he says before letting him put it on my hair.:perplexed

I just started getting the seaweedy feeling you're describing.......love the heaviness and hang:lol: I started 4 x's weekly deep conditioning and using Terresentials.
 
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Dumb question here. I was always taught that if you're relaxed, you should wrap your hair around your hair to protect it. However, that may be extra manipulation. How do relaxed LHCF ladies protect their straight hair?
 
naija24 said:
Dumb question here. I was always taught that if you're relaxed, you should wrap your hair around your hair to protect it. However, that may be extra manipulation. How do relaxed LHCF ladies protect their straight hair?
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I loved wrapping my hair when it was long enough. Some ppl use their fingers to minimize combing and brushing it which could be to much manipulation. I will continue to wrap it when its straight. My hair loved the "massage" the comb gave my scalp going around my head.
 
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