Today, I wanted to talk to you guys about an important but minute detail that is often overlooked and not considered when troubleshooting issues that we can have with our hair.
That would be a water filter.
If you are local to my area, like Limestone County, Huntsville City, or Madison County, mineral buildup in our water and high mineral content are very common.
There is a lot of Alabama red clay, limestone, and all of these other things that get into our water, and they're just really not good for our hair.
They strip our hair of shine and moisture, and they'll pull your toner off and dry our hair out like crazy.
It's wild, what a difference. A balanced water consumption will make.
We all drink filtered water, or a lot of us do.
We drink filtered water, and we do that for a reason, right?
One for taste, but two because it's cleaner and has been purified.
Same thing for your hair.
It will make such a difference in your lives to have filtered water, especially if you're blonde or curly or you're a vivid client; it will help retain your color; it'll help retain that hydration if you make the switch.
One of my clients came in recently, and she put a water filter on her shower a few months ago. It's been three or four months; the difference in her hair texture blew me away.
I've never seen her hair look this good.
Shiny and healthy, you could tell such a difference in her new growth and the top half down the mids.
It was so much shinier, more hydrated, and healthier.
I think it's kind of a long game kind of thing where you'll see some instant results, but then you'll see, um, more improved results as time goes on.
Something that you might notice after you leave the salon.
You leave the salon, and you feel amazing, right?
You got the look that you wanted, your hair shiny. It's styled. It looks beautiful
But then maybe two or three weeks after coming into the salon, you notice that your hair is starting to feel drier, or maybe it goes the other direction, it's a lot more oily, starts to feel like something's on it, like some kind of product buildup. Your shampoo just can't cleanse quite well enough, or your toner starts disappearing, and you're looking grassy, or you're feeling, you know, too ashy or just not the right tone for what you were, what you were wanting and what you had just two or three weeks prior.
Your water could be the cause of that.
There are some other factors:
Using the wrong shampoo
Shampooing in super-duper hot water
Your heat tools are too high.
But the quality of your water is incredibly important.
Around here, chlorine is commonly used to clean the water.
The chlorine, you know, if you go into a pool, chlorine will make your hair greener. If you're blonde, it'll dry your hair out like crazy. It makes your skin feel kind of tight and dry.
Some people have an allergy to it, a mild one, and it makes them itchy.
And so we don't even think about the fact that our shower could be causing some of these problems.
The water filter that I highly recommend is Aqua Bliss. You can get it on Amazon.
I want to say it's 30, 35 bucks. It's very inexpensive. I installed mine myself. It took maybe five minutes.
All you have to do is unscrew your shower head after you've primed the water filter. Which, by the way, is just running water through it for about 60 seconds. Then you screw that water filter onto your shower spout, and then you attach your shower head, screw your shower head onto the filter. You let the water run through for a few seconds, and then you're done.
It has surprised me how much of a difference it's been making in my skin and my hair. My hair is way less frizzy, way less frizzy, and I'm the trifecta of dry frizz, okay. I'm blonde, I'm gray, I'm curly.
All three of those things just naturally as a byproduct will dry your hair out, and I've, you know, cornering the market on the dry hair over here. I highly recommend trying this. See what it does for you.
Give it a few months. Give it a few tries before you decide if it's helpful or not. But I think that you'll be impressed with the difference that it will make. It will help your toner last longer.
It'll help your colors stay better and not fade off or be patchy or whatever. It'll help your hair be way shinier.
Keeping that keeps your cuticle more closed down from hot water.
Water in general in our world is a disruptor a lot of things dissolve in water. Hot water lifts your cuticle open and when that happens that pulls the colors out. Even if you're using a colors-safe shampoo if you've got water that's got a high mineral content and you're washing your hair in super hot water and then hitting it with a hot blow dryer and curling iron, that's going to be a cause for your hair to be frizzier, drier, for your color to fade faster.
These are just all things to think about when trying to understand maybe why your hair isn't holding color as well or giving you issues. I recommend trying this water filter.
Please let me know if you do.
It's been a game changer for some of my clients and myself and I would love to hear your guys' feedback on it.
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