Hair care
Hair dressing reflects and rejuvenates one’s personality. For women, it is the hall-mark of their look. The quote of Longfellow amply highlights hair-dressing as a potential cosmetic tool. In our country hair-dressing is anybody’s job; whereas in the US, one has to attend a cosmetology school for a prescribed period to obtain a State license. These days, keeping it healthy and beautiful has become a challenge. Healthy hair depends upon one’s hair consciousness. Regular diet, physical exercise and proper maintenance go a long way in making the hair look impressive and appealing. Excessive intake of coffee, tea, alcohol, meat, and tobacco products harms the hair.
Here are some tips to keep your hair healthy:
*Rinsing your hair with boiled water and cooling it with neem leaves helps you to prevent hair loss.
*Dried amlas boiled with coconut oil to form darkish oil is excellent in preventing graying.
The water in which dried amla pieces are soaked overnight nourishes hair, and can be used for the last rinse while washing the hair.
*Mix 2 tspns of Brandy in 1 cup of water. Apply with the fingertips to the roots of hair. Wash after ½ hour with shampoo. This keeps away dandruff.
*Mix 1 egg with 1 cup of yogurt and apply on the scalp. Leave for ½ an hour and wash. This also helps you to keep away dandruff.
*Mix 1 tblspn of Olive oil with 1 tspn of limejuice. Apply well on the scalp and cover the head by tying an old scarf. Keep it on overnight and shampoo the next morning. This keeps away dandruff.

Quick fix
A bad hair day is bad enough; a bad haircut is just as bad. At some point in our lives, we have had to live through a tress stress.
Here are some quick tips to fix a bad haircut:
*Attention accessory
Accessories are the surest and quickest fixes for a bad hair cut. Hair bands, scarves, bobby pins, scrunches or colorful hair clips- they just draw attention away from the bad haircut. If you have long hair, just tie your hair with scrunchies. It is the short hair that draws more attention. Funky accessories, colorful and different, do the trick.
*Color power
The damage has been done. It’s time to get it fixed. Try streaks and highlights with smart color. Voila! A cool new look without having to worry about the messed up haircut
*Restyle and reset
For all you know, your haircut may not be so bad. Probably you’ve styled it in a way that it doesn’t look so nice. Chill down. Try washing your hair at home and restyle it in a way you like it the best. It may not seem so messed up after all.
*Gadget gaga
Curlers and straightening irons are good investments. Curling your hair with a curling iron totally disguises the bad haircut. For those with short hair, a pixie hairstyle with a flat iron is a safe bet because a bad haircut obviously shows on short hair. A pixies hairstyle camouflages the tress trouble. More importantly, don’t lose heart, your hair will grow. A brilliant smile can disguise any bad haircut. Go ahead; wear that smile and a great attitude.
*When you’re planning a new hairstyle, remember to take a picture of the hairstyle you want to get yourself. Explaining does not really help. A sample picture dose. There are also many websites and kiosks going in for a brand new haircut. that offer trial hairstyles which you could try on virtually with your picture before actually going in for a brand new haircut. Search these websites from the Google search box displayed above this page.