A lot of women believe that, when you get older, you need to be more mindful of your skin and your outfits because the wrong maintenance or wrong clothes can age you. That’s true. But there’s one more feature that we need to be mindful of because it can age women faster and that’s women’s hair.
The way women style (or not style) their hair can make women look decades older than their real age. But you might be protesting, that’s too much already. Skin, clothes, shoes, and now hair? The thing is, you can follow the tips to look for younger for everything else but when you don’t do the same for your hair, no one will notice anything else but your hair.
To begin with:
DO: Create a subtle “Bend” at the bottom of hair
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For example, as women grow more mature, their hair’s texture changes and the hair looks drier or more coarse. One mistake mature women make is to use the wrong tools. Some use curling irons but it doesn’t distribute heat evenly between the strands.
Instead, go for a flat iron because the heat is distributed evenly through your hair. That will allow the bend to not just appear at the end but throughout the hair. The flat iron smoothens the hair down as well and makes you look more vibrant and thus more youthful.
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DON’T: Have curl at bottom of hair
Using a flat iron to create that bend for the hair (not just the bottom) is ideal because you can control the flat iron. So be careful with the wrist. A lot of women believe that to create that bend, you have to bend your hair arm when using the flat iron.
Lock in the wrist so you can have a more uniform C-shape throughout the hair and will make you look younger.
DON’T: Leave hair natural with no products
Now, there are women who don’t want to use hair products and just keep it all natural. But remember, as women mature their hair’s texture changes.
It becomes coarser, dryer, and thinner and if you want to look younger, you’ll need to address those issues with some kind of hair product.
DO: Use products in your hair
There is one reason to use hair products and that’s to add volume. Now, you might say, you’ve already got thick and full hair, you don’t need products to add volume anymore. Well, yes and no. You don’t need products in some areas but you do need them in a couple of areas.
One issue thick hair has is that it adds volume every where, even the on the part of your face that you don’t want to highlight. Using hair products will control where the volume is so you can highlight or accentuate the facial feature that you want more focus on.
DON’T: Let your hair get too long
Long hair is beautiful, especially if that’s what you want but it might not be what you need. At a younger age, the length of the hair can still support your roots. But as you grow older, when the hair is too long, it can get heavy and ruin your roots, thinning out your hair at the top.
This goes for thicker hair, too. And when it becomes too heavy and thick, you may experience headaches. Who would have thought, right?
Now we’re not saying get a pixie cut now. You can still have long hair but only up to a point where it doesn’t become too heavy and burdensome. Find that sweet spot.
DON’T: Use the wrong color to hide grays
Once the gray hair comes out, it’s hard to stop it. Now, there are usually two responses to this. Women either hide the gray or bring out the gray. But when they bring out the gray, they still want to minimize it.
The problem here is that women often pick the wrong color for their hair because it doesn’t match their skin tone. It doesn’t really minimize the gray hair and sometimes, the wrong color makes the gray hair worse.
DO: Warm up color to match your skin tone
Instead of going for a white cool blonde color to hide the grey color, go for a warm blonde color instead.
This will match your skin tone more and will be more flattering. It’ll end up looking more natural than going for the grey-white hair look.
DON’T: Overlook nutrition and stress
This is an important tip that so many people, women and men, overlook. They focus so much on external resources to look younger that they fail to remember that it also comes from internal sources. Take care of your nutrition and manage your stress. Your hair grows from the scalp so whatever is going on inside will appear on the outside, including your hair.
Eat real food and make sure that you get the right minerals and nutrients to take care of your inside and it’ll show on the outside.
DON’T: Part your hair down the center
With mature women, you want to lift the eye up. But that won’t work if you part your hair in the center.
That will weigh your hair down and doesn’t accentuate your cheek and bone structures. Since the top is flat, it brings the eyes down and adds more volume to the sides, which will also hide your face.
DO: Style your hair
Some women don’t have time to style their hair because they’re either busy or they don’t know how. What do they do? They just forego it.
But when you don’t style your hair, you’re not allowing the products to create that foundation so you can have more volume in your hair. When you have volume in the right places, which you can control with hair products, you’ll look more vibrant and more youthful.
DON’T: Put volume in the wrong places
Styling your hair as a beginner can be daunting. There are different rules for different face shapes. That’s why most women just forego styling in the first place. There are two things you need to remember, your face shape and the general area of volume. If you have a long face, add volume to the sides, not the top.
If you have a fuller face, add volume to the top, not the sides. And if you must have only one tool, get a flat iron because you’ll get to control the amount of volume you add to your hair.
DO: Consider that coloring your hair can be beneficial
For those who want to have their hair colored, make sure that you go to a stylist who knows how color can look good on you. You don’t need to go bold with color. Even just adding lowlights or highlights can work as well.
The point here is to add dimension to your hair so that it forces the eyes to go up.
DON’T: Ignore layering as an option
Have you always had straight hair? Have you tried layering with your hair? If you have long hair as a mature woman, the tendency is for the hair to become thicker as it goes down to the bottom. Because it’s thicker, the eyes are drawn toward that area.
Layering creates volume on the top half of your hair and it draws the eyes up. Anything that draws the eyes up is flattering and can shave years off your look.
DON’T: Use too much spray
When you do decide to add layers to your hair or even if you don’t, stop adding too much hairspray. The point of layers on your hair is to make it move freely and naturally.
When you add too much hairspray, your hair becomes rigid and stiff. And that takes away any youthfulness to your look.
DON’T: Be closed to change
“Don’t fix what’s not broken.” That’s true but sometimes, it’s good to evolve. There’s no need to go too big either. You can look for hairstyles that you like, maybe bangs here or layers there or highlights.
Show it to your stylist if it suits or how that style can suit you and look younger in the process.
DON’T: Go too dark with color
It’s so tempting to use dark colors to hide your gray hair. But here’s the problem.
When your gray hair grows out, dark hair with gray roots is not a great combination. If you want to minimize your gray hair, add highlights to your hair to add more dimension.
DO: Use the right shampoo and conditioner for your hair
Since mature women experience physical changes to their hair, it’s imperative to use the right shampoo and conditioner to take care of it. Because the hair changes texture, it becomes coarse, dry-looking, and frizzy. You don’t want to use very strong shampoo, stripping, or clarifying shampoos because they will remove nutrients from your hair and make it even dryer.
You will need to do some research and trials to check which ones will look for you.
DO: Consider Bangs
Hear us out! If you like to pull your hair back, it’s good to have bangs because you’ll continue to have a soft look. Plus it allows you to have fun, natural look that adds youth to your face as well.
The great news about bangs is if it doesn’t work, you can just snip it off.
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