Tips for Curly Hair:

• Heated appliances may alter the colour of white or bleached hair.
• Depending on the technique and lotions used, a perm should last 3 to 6 months.
• Since colour treatments can cause your hair to be dryer and more porous, colour treatments can be used to combat excessive greasiness.
• Any hair perming should be done at least two weeks prior to your special event. This will allow your curls to settle and will give you some time to learn how to make the most of your new look.
• While stretching your hair with a brush, apply heat starting off at the roots with a good grip, give a tug and stretch it straight.
• A natural bristle brush has a better grip when you need to pull the hair for drying.
• Rub shampoo through the sides and back of your head first before the top.
• Correcting the pH balance of the hair can repair hair cuticles. This results in great styles every day.
• Cutting long, curly hair doesn't mean a short or layered hairstyle. Every curl should be snipped individually at the tips leaving hair long and healthy.
• Cutting the damaged frizzy ends will give a healthy overall look to the hair.
• Controlling the pH balance will dramatically improve the condition of curly hair. Healthy hair should have a pH value of 4.5 - 5.5 for the most part store purchased shampoo and conditioners often do not have the correct ph balance for hair. A salon quality product does.
• Swimming in the ocean is very healthy for both the skin and hair. It's the sun and chlorine that causes the most damage.
• Your stylist should avoid being too accurate when cutting, each curl needs to be assessed and cut independently to achieve a natural look.
• When shampooing, remember that the thicker the hair, the longer you need to rinse in order to remove all the shampoo.not rinsing your hair completely can result in matting or dreads.
• Frizz caused by humidity can easily be controlled with serum.
• Split ends don't affect curly hair as much as straight hair. The hair doesn't split all the way up the hair shaft.
• Wet, healthy hair has the ability to stretch by 40% without breaking. When released hair should return to its original state

• For extra volume, bend forward at the waist letting your hair hang over, move a diffuser up the length of each curl to add bounce and volume while maintaining frizz control.
• Sleeping on curly hair - Use a "scrunchy" to hold your hair on top of your head in a loose ponytail as it will allow for more surface area to sleep on. Your curls will still look fresh and full in the morning.
• If loose hair is not removed, matting occurs.

The cuticle of this hair has been significantly damaged by repeated and excessive perming

waving, by its nature, disrupts the structure of the hair: indeed, it has to do so for the perm to be successful. In order to change the shape of the hair, permanent waving agents first break the disulphide bonds that give the hair shaft its structure. The hair is then put into its new shape and 'neutralised'. Neutralisation is the name given to the re-forming of the chemical bonds in their new positions, a process that fixes the hair permanently into its new shape. The secrets of satisfactory perming lie in the manufacturer's formulation of the product and the stylist's expertise in applying the neutralising lotion after just the right length of time, so that the perm is fixed but the hair is damaged as little as possible. Permed hair should always look beautiful in spite of this deliberate 'damage'. (We shall discuss perms in more detail in the next chapter.)
    Bleaching and dyeing change hair structure too, because the dyes and the bleaches used have to penetrate the cuticle and get into the cortex where they have their effect. Some degree of chemical damage is unavoidable.
    Cosmetic procedures do not damage the hair follicle within the scalp, and so do not cause hair loss. Only a serious chemical burn to the skin of the scalp that destroys the follicle cells can do so. Burns like this can follow indiscriminate over-use of permanent waving or relaxing solutions, and therefore these solutions must be handled carefully at all times.

Perms are back!!

Once, the word "perm" conjured up thoughts of tight, poodle curls, acrid hair solutions, and scary metal rods and rollers. The old-fashioned permanent's bad reputation was well deserved -- it was damaging to hair's condition, not to mention its style.

Today, there's a new perm in town, creating big, loose, soft curls. Perm technology has been updated and perfected. Now it can be a long-term solution for giving hair the curl and volume that works perfectly with the current trend toward lush, sexy hair. Stylists now often use perms by working with your cut, adding welcome texture and style to any hair.

Damage from the sun

The ultraviolet light in direct sunlight affects the cuticle in a similar way to a bleach, and eventually the keratin protein of the hair breaks down. The result is than the hair is gradually weakened and becomes drier. The effect shows up as light streaks in the hair (sun bleaching). The reason is that sunlight breaks up some of the chemical links within the amino acid groups, in particular those between carbon atoms and sulphur atoms. It does not affect disulphide linkages or hydrogen bonds.

Mechanical damage

Though hair is so robust, it can still be damaged by over-enthusiastic brushing and combing, especially when it is wet and if there is some degree of tangling. Metal combs are particularly hard on the hair. Backbrushing and backcombing are extremely harmful, since they tug against the scales of the cuticle, which all lie pointing towards the tip of the shaft like tiles

Damage from brushing

Damage from backcombing

on a roof. Once hair has been backcombed the delicate scales are lifted. The next time a comb passes over the scales they will be ripped off. There is no way of repairing this. The effects of these processes can build up over time and cause considerable damage: backcombing is one of the most damaging physical treatments that can be inflicted on hair.
    Hair that has been treated chemically (permed, colored or bleached) has, as we have seen, already been damaged to some extent. The result is that it is at greater risk of damage from the daily hair care routine. The surface of chemically treated hair is receptive to conditioners and other protective treatments, however, and if applied regularly these products can give real protection to the hair.

Kalista Salon & Day Spa - We want everyone to know this information to educate yourselves when getting your hair done by just any hairdresser. We are well awair of the risks in styling, cutting, coloring hair and that is why even though you want to have these services done anyway, it is wise to go to the ones that are aware that your hair can be damaged so we can work hard to avoid the least possible damage.