Hair growth tips

Stimulate your scalp

In the haircare sphere, most of the chit-chat centres around keeping your ends in tip-top condition, but what about where your hair actually grows from? Maintaining a healthy scalp plays an important role in determining your overall hair health – and this is where scalp stimulation comes in.

Whether you massage your scalp with your fingertips on the daily, work hair oil into your scalp weekly or use a shampoo brush when washing your hair, stimulating the scalp will help to dislodge dead skin cells and increase blood flow to the area. By encouraging the circulation in your scalp, you help to bring more nutrients to your follicles, thus promoting hair strength and growth.

Eat a protein-rich diet

It’s common knowledge that eating a balanced diet is crucial in leading a healthy life. And the same goes for a healthy head of hair! Without enough nutrients in your diet (think vitamins A, B, C, D, zinc, biotin, omega 3, etc), the body will divert the nutrients away from the hair and towards your vital organs instead, compromising hair growth in the process.

As each hair strand is made up of a protein named keratin, it’s especially important for the overall health of your hair to ensure that you eat a protein-rich diet. Foods like eggs, oily fish, beans, nuts, and wholegrains are all excellent sources of this wonder nutrient.

Reduce stress

If you’re dealing with persistent stress in your life, you could be more vulnerable to hair loss and thinning. So, if you want to optimise hair health and length, it’s worth taking a look at your lifestyle and identifying any areas that you find particularly tough to manage.

Once you’ve identified the culprits, the next step is to see if you can reduce these stressors in any way and implement some stress-busting activities where you can. For some, this could be exercising and journaling, and for others, it could be carving out more time for hobbies e.g. baking or drawing. Whatever calm looks like for you, making small tweaks to your routine could encourage your hair to flourish.

Regular trims

We know, chopping off your locks when you want to grow hair makes zero sense on the surface. But trust us, regular trips to the salon to dust off your ends will do wonders for your hair growth journey. If left to their own devices, split ends travel further and further up the hair shaft, which can break off and reduce your overall length and thickness. So, if you’re long overdue on an appointment, it’s time to get booking.

Conditioning treatments

Combine regular trips to the salon with weekly conditioning treatments and you’ve got yourself a recipe for long and luscious locks. Whether it’s a hair mask, deep conditioning treatment or hair oil, these products are specifically designed to improve the elasticity and strength of dry and brittle strands. The result? Less breakage and more length retention.

Gentle treatment

Treating your wet hair with a little TLC is the new aim of the game. Start your wash routine by gently brushing through dry hair with a wide-toothed comb or a soft-bristled hair brush, working slowly from tips to the root. Once you’ve washed it, ditch your bathroom towel and wrap your hair up with a microfibre hair towel to reduce frizz, friction, and breakage. For extra brownie points, sleep on a silk pillowcase!