Keeping the Salon Look - What If Everybody's Wrong?

Do you know anyone who doesn't crave a stunning hairstyle?  One that's perfectly suited for them and looks, well, amazing?  This endless desire has spawned a slew of rules and styling dos and don'ts.  All designed to help you know what to  do to get that perfect 'do. Naturally everyone knows them.  But what if everyone's wrong?  Yeah, what if you're paying the equivalent of full price for half price advice? 

One area rife with half truths is how to keep the just stepped out of the salon look at home.  It's something we all want, that's for sure.  Because we feel all hot and sexy what with all new look and all.  But all too soon that look has vanished because perhaps we're following the wrong set of dos and don'ts. 

For example everybody knows salon hair care products are better and may well be a better way to accomplish that salon look preservation.  Sure, let's say that true.  But from there is where the helpfulness usually goes astray. I mean, look, just because you get your cleanser from the salon doesn't guarantee a great outcome.  It really comes down to how you use or misuse it. 

You see most do not shampoo their hair like stylists tend to when your hair is flayed over a sink behind you. With these concentrated products it's truly a case of less is more.  And then more is more.  Meaning concentrated, yes. But fast action, no.  You need to really massage it in and give it a couple of minutes of that massaging stuff to get the most out of it.  Otherwise you're already on the path to the same old hair you had before your salon visit.

Everybody also knows that shampooing itself is vital.  But another little known hindrance to maintaining your salon look is shampooing too much.  Sure no one wants to be walking around with greasy and disgusting hair.  But do you really have to wash as often as some of your friends will insist?  Likely not.  If you're got stick straight locks every other day may be more than frequent enough.  While mop tops may be able to go two or three days between shampoo sessions.  The risk is dryness.  And we both know dry hair doesn't have that just stepped from the salon look. 

Everybody knows about volumizing products that can add oodles of volume to your hair.  And volume is something that can transform limp, lifeless hair overnight.  What fewer seem to realize is that the path to lasting volume is paved with layers. As in layers cut into your hair that leaves you with locks that effortlessly hold the volume all day long. 

Then too everybody knows having a good hair brush is vitally important. Unless you have curly locks and then not so much.  But if we all know that why do we fall short and get some cheap, flimsy brush rather than investing in one that's up to the job. 

Okay so  everybody thinks they know the dos and don'ts.  But as these few examples show, it turns out too many don't know and thus unwittingly sabotage their most earnest desire, to duplicate the salon look at home.  Does that go for you too?