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I don't do a lot to my hair, despite being a stylist, to cause breakage anymore. What I have now is leftover from highlighting about a year ago. I do still occasionally use a demipermanent color, but it's fairly gentle. That's awesome!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ktani
I have seen some awesome pictures of your hair lately. You can try coconut and argan oils as a pre treatment before the demi, if you like.Quote:
Originally Posted by rymorg2
I think that a stylist's hair can be an indication of what they know about hair. How do you feel about that as a viewpoint?
Mind you, I have seen some pretty wild looking celebrity hair stylist hair and the hair of their clients still looks great.
Wow, thanks! :D I definately plan on trying the coconut/argan oil before my next demi, which may not be awhile.....it's been a good month and my color is still good and my regrowth not so bad, although it's growing as well. :shrug: I have no idea why that is.Quote:
Originally Posted by ktani
I think I LIKE that viewpoint....:cheese:
eta that I have seen some stylists in my area the same way LOL...and their clients usually look good too. Go figure
You are most welcome!Quote:
Originally Posted by rymorg2
So I went and got my stash of dried organic catnip leaves and flowers that I had harvested from my garden and stored (thinking for the cats) and made some catnip tea.
I used 2 tsp's for 2 cups water and steeped it for 45 minutes. Then I diluted shampooed, slapped it on my hair, did my lather, shave, and other shower crap then rinsed it out. I did use a small dab of conditioner on my ends but :bigeyes:
My hair was SO SOFT! Even my ends were soft. And my ends are NEVER soft. My hair simply smelled of my shampoo and I made my fiance pet me like 12 times.
I made a batch for my nephews super strawlike hair and even his hair was shiny and soft. He even said his scalp felt better (He had gross cradle cap type stuff on his head)
We even doused the dog with it when we gave him his monthly bath and he came out smelling faintly hay like and being softer than he usually is post bath.
I didn't remember to make a tea for this days shampoo and when I went to bed fiance said "Why do your ends feel dry?" I felt them and THEY DID! So I am making a pot of Catnip tea tomorrow and am going to do a simple rise, soak and rinse in the shower.
I love the stuff! I can't wait to try it on my sisters super dry end hair.
(also, I tried it on fiance's hair and he asked if we had new conditioner because he felt softer on top :lol:)
KJ
Ok I have read a few pages of this thread and I am intrigued off to look for catnip when I go shopping tomorrow, that is if you can get it in Australia :ponder:
Another thing to try , goodie. :D
Buy pet store catnip if you can, leaves and flowers. I recommend steeping until cooled, about 1.5 hours or longer if you like. I use 1 level tsp to just under 300 ml of boiled water. I cover the mug with a saucer. Just before I strain it into a creamer for easy pouring, I tap the condensation from under the saucer, on my finger, back into the mug. The condensation contains the volatile oils. Catnip contains fixed oils too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alley Cat
I then rinse the tea strainer I use, shake it a bit and strain the tea into a washed out shampoo bottle and either refridgerate the tea or use it right away. If refridgerated (it keeps up to a week), I take it out of the fridge an hour before I use it, to let it warm up to room temperature. I do not reheat it.
I have not tried to CO with it yet. Others have and reported success. I wash my face with the tea and it removes my oil based sunblock and my soap and water washable mascara. It is very soothing and moisturizing to skin, as well as hair.
I get the tea in my eyes all of the time in the shower. No problems there. Catnip has actually soothed eye irritation for me. I have seen it recommended as an "eye wash" on the internet but ignored that. When I had scratched the inner corner of my eye one day, I applied some catnip to it and it relieved the redness right away.
I am glad that you are so pleased. I have found that the longer it is left on the hair, the more conditioning it is to the hair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keenkitty
I gently squeeze out extra water, after shampooing, apply the catnip and bag it. That works best for me. I do that in 2 "sections". I wash my hair all forward or upsidedown. I apply catnip to the underneathth back, top, sides and length, pin that up and bag it for 1/2 hour. Then I remove the bag, apply more catnip to the top front, sides and back and rebag, with my ends down and out of the bag, and leave that on for another 1/2 hour.
I remove the bag, let my scalp "cool" down for a few minutes and rinse. Because I am also using catnip to cover my grey/white hair, with light yellow stain, I add some extra catnip at this point, to my greyest hair areas.
I now have no tangles wet or dry in my hair, 0 split ends and reduced white dots, less than ever before. Even this winter which is very cold here, static is minimal and my ends are not dry.
How I prepare my catnip tea
You need an inexpensive tea strainer or a teaball. I use a stainless tea strainer (about $3.00), a stainless (stainless is optional) 1 tsp measuring spoon, a bone china mug (bone china is optional, from the dollar store), a demitasse saucer (any saucer will do), a creamer (easy pouring) and a 2 cup Pyrex measuring cup.
Boil the water (stainless kettle for me), measure out the catnip (I steralize the mug, saucer, Pyrex measuring cup and tea strainer each time with the boiled water before use) measure out the catnip, add to the mug, measure out the water, add to the mug, cover with the saucer, steep untill cooled or longer, if you wish.
I empty the mug into the creamer (through the tea strainer) and tap condensation from inside (underneath the saucer) into the creamer as well and then use the creamer to pour the cooled tea into a washed out plastic shampoo bottle, through the rinsed out (tap water) strainer. I either use the tea right away or store it in the fridge, to use later.
I use a bigger plastic strainer to empty the tea strainer (before rinsing it, to use again to use with the shampoo bottle) and mug, that I gather the dregs from, with a paper towel and discard. I then wash out everything used, except the Pyrex measuring cup, because it only gets boiled water in it.
Thank you for that ktani. I will try to look for a pet shop one today. :) I will be relieved it can't hurt the eyes unlike the soapnuts did. Yikes. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by ktani