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17Jun/114

Do prenatal vitamins help make your hair grow faster and stronger, even if your not pregnant?

I have been losing my hair like crazy and I'm only 23. I believe it was because I dyed my hair not too long ago. My hair dresser told me to take prenatal vitamins to help it grow back faster and stronger. Is this true? And would it interact with my birth control? 23yr female. thank you.

14Jan/119

Urgent help for my dry,splitting, hair?

I have black/white hair. It started breaking off badly and drying out but it was still about 5-6 inches down past my shoulders. About 2 and a half years ago, I went to the wrong hair dresser, asked for it to be thinned out and she did a hair wacking job I've ever seen. I came out with the length at the bottom of my neck. :( My hair has not grown back out past my shoulders since, because it has been getting more dry and breaking off horribly.
I use every kind of conditioners and leave in products, oils, creams for sale on the shelves of stores. Nothing seems to be working. I even take vitamins.

So, I figured theres nothing I can do, my hair looks a mess. I can either just put it up in this tiny messy, frizzy bun after I take a shower. Or I can spend about 2 hours trying to straighten it with a FHI straightener, even then its very dry looking and gets oily/still feeling after a day. My hair isn't all curly so I can't wear it naturally down. It's a poof/dry mess.

Any help?
I've also got these really short pieces along the front of my hair line around my face, this prevents me from being able to wear my hair with any kind of bang styling because their always sticking out every which direction, and these short pieces of hair are hard to straighten and end up not laying flat if I do try to straighten them.

If I can't wear it curly, then I want to be able to wear it straight but for it to look nicely and healthy while I'm trying to grow it out long again.

I've went to other hairdressers to have it trimmed at some point after the bad hairdresser wacked off all my hair, and their only advice to me was to just have to be careful with it and try to let it grow. So, they didn't really provide any good help because I still haven't seen any length. I know it's growing, it's just breaking off. People will say did you get a hair cut, and I didn't, it just breaks that badly.

1Nov/102

what will help my hair grow?

in high school my hair was about 2 inches below my shoulders. I'm going to be a junior in college and my hair is now about 2 inches above my shoulders. When I was in my second semester of my freshman year I got a really cute bob hair cut that was pretty short. my hair has definitely grown out from that but I'm having trouble getting it past my shoulders. I feel like every time I go to the hair dresser and they "trim" my hair it gets chopped off even though i say i just want a trim.
I am currently taking hair skin nail vitamins, I take calcium, a multi vitamin and my hair dresser recently told me to try prenatal vitamins.I'd like to know things that have worked and have not worked so I don't waste time and money. It can be a home remedy or something you have bought. thank you!!!
I forgot to mention that I use Paul Mitchel shampoo, conditioner, heat protectand spray and straightner. I also use redken deep conditioning treatment and I color my hair blonde by a professional but not with bleach. any shampoos or other products that are better please let me know =)

12Sep/106

What was the most successful thing you've done or heard to help make your hair grow faster?

Yea, I stupidly chopped all my long hair off over a year and a half ago and its still not past my shoulders :( My hair just wont grow. Ive started taking biotin supplements a week ago and idk how long that will take to start working. My hair dresser reccomended it. Also, whenever I get my hair cut they chop off more than has grown despite me saying "trim" it. So what has worked the best for you, prenatal vitamins? Biotin? a certain shampoo? more sleep? water?

Thank you guys!

6Sep/101

Five questions regarding to grow healthy hair and stay diet.?

1)Because im trying to build abs and other kind of work outs. SO im on a diet. What kind of would should i eat to grow healthy hair and maintain diet.
2)What kind of daily routine should i do for my hair ?
3)What vitamin is best for hair ? Is it vitamin B ?
4)Does washing your hair everyday damage your hair which will leads to split ends ? Cuz i wanna grown my hair long fast, my hair dresser said washing it every day will make it grow faster. But people said washing it everyday isnt good.
5)Is it true, people said exercising like working out also help grow better hair ?
Oh and by vitamin, i dont mean pills.
I meant vitamins from food.

30Aug/105

My hair is falling off at the ends, from bleaching and straightening, it's sooooooo damaged I need major help!?

Okay, about 2 in a half months ago I went to walmart and got the lightest shade of blonde hair dye they had, because I didnt want to wait on my friends mom (who's a professional) to do it, and tried putting highlights in myself. Well, I should not have done that. First of all, my hair is soooo fried. I used to straighen it EVERYDAY, since I was like 12 years old. I'm now 16. Sooo, as you can imagin my hair is very dry and frizzy. Thats the reason I straightened it so much. Well the drirections for the dye said to leave it in for lke 15 min, and I had only had it in for like 10 min and my scalp was like on fire, so i went and rinsed it out and some places of my hair where I straighten it alot was like totaly white! I could almost see through it! And I didn't even have to touch it it would just fall out if I even looked at it haha I mean it was literally falling off in clumps. Thank god I died it the day after school got out haha. So after I got done crying my eyes out and wishing that I was just dreaming, I called up my friend whos mom was a hair dresser and got her on the phone. She said all she knew to do is buy some hot oil treatments, and she would set me up an appointment to check it out. So I done the hot oil treatments all week untill I went to see Mrs. Wendy (the hair dresser) and when I got there, and took my hair out of a poney tail, her jaw literally dropped. She'd never seen anything like it befor. She cut most of my hair off, like an inch above my sholders. So since then I bought hot oil treatments, hair mayo treatments, i'v been takeing vitamins, drinking water, washing my hair with Mane 'n Tale which I heard was a super great for damaged hair. And I got the deep moisturizeing kind cuz my hairs really dry. All of it has helped alot, but I still have trouble with this certain area on the side of my head. Mrs. Wendy said that was the most damged part because I parted my hair on that side, and it wasn't my natural part therefor I straightened it more than anything to keep it perfect. When I get out of the shower I can pull at it and it streatches, and then breakes off! And its only in that area. My hair has grown about this mech: (-------------). And the hair is sooo healthey where it has grown back and I just wish I could get all of it like that. I mean its only in that area. I can't cut that one area off, because school starts in 3 weeks. I'm going to get it trimmed again here in about a week or two, and I was planning on her dyeing it back brown since it's not as serious as bleaching it. I know this is alot to read but I thought it would be better to tell you the whole compleat story. What I'm asking is, can someone please give me some serious advise?! I know to get it trimmed regularly, take vitamins, drink water, dont put heat on it, and not wash it everyday. Is there anything els someone can tell me that could maybe help repair the damaged parts so I can wait a little longer and grow it out to get it cut and then grow it all back out healthy? Please don't give me a lecture about how I shouldnt have straightened my hair everyday and colored it myself. I know. I'v heard enough and I have learned the hard way.
By the way, I'm kinda on a budget because my parents have already spent alot of money on hair products that don't even work for me. Soooo if there is anything at all you can tell me that you think would help, please tell me. I really do thank anyone who can help me! :)

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