The first step in growing your hair is understanding your hair type.
Determining your hair type and porosity will guide you to suitable care for your hair, promoting growth and maintaining its health.
Each hair type deserves specific care, addressing various hair issues (dandruff, thin or brittle hair, low or high porosity).
2 – Find Your Preferred Look
While growing your hair is a great idea, you need to decide on the hairstyle that best suits your morphology, style, and desires.
Depending on your choice, decide whether to keep your hair afro, straighten it, opt for trendy cuts, curls, or braids.
3 – Growing Your Hair as a Man : Hair Care Routine
Establishing a hair care routine is the best way to achieve excellent long-term results.
Research extensively on the products you use and create a maintenance schedule for your hair.
The hair care routine can span one or more weeks and includes:
Masks and treatments,
Shampoos,
Protective hairstyles,
Hydration,
A visit to the hairdresser.
4 – Do Not Neglect Conditioner
Conditioner is a crucial care step, just like shampoo. Choose it based on your hair’s nature.
Applying conditioner to wet hair facilitates detangling and prevents breakage.
Use your fingers and a suitable brush to detangle your hair properly and remove broken strands.
5 – Regularly Treat Your Hair
Growing your hair as a man requires consistency. Your hair needs regular care for proper growth and protection against daily aggressions.
Hair care is recommended at least once a week. You can choose from reparative treatments for damaged hair, fortifying treatments for stronger hair, hydrating treatments for easy manageability, and nourishing treatments to promote growth.
Combine different active ingredients to provide your hair with the strength, shine, flexibility, hydration, and nutrition needed for healthy growth.
6 – Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle and Diet
Growing your hair as a man involves maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Pay attention to your diet to ensure good hair growth.
Include fruits and vegetables, along with foods excellent for your health and essential vitamins (A, B, E), folic acid, and proteins, known to promote hair growth.
Drinking over a liter of water daily helps keep your hair hydrated.
7 – Use Supplements and Serums to Boost Growth
To boost your hair’s growth, consider using dietary supplements and hair serums.
These products are rich in vitamins and active ingredients, stimulating your body and hair follicles to accelerate the hair growth process.
Before choosing a dietary supplement, consult a doctor.
8 – Schedule Appointments with Your Barber
No need to abandon your barber when deciding to grow your hair. A visit to the barber allows you to refresh your haircut and trim split ends.
You can space out your appointments but ensure you cut the tips of your hair every 3 to 6 months, depending on your hair’s length.
Trimming the ends is an excellent way to get rid of split ends and prevent knot formation, which can cause hair breakage.
9 – Limit Shampoos
Avoid systematically using soap in your hair every time you wash it.
Excessive shampooing can dry, aggress, and damage your hair. Once a week is sufficient.
10 – Perform Scalp Massages
Scalp massages stimulate blood circulation, oxygenate the scalp, and help hair absorb growth-promoting actives.
Perform circular motions with your ten fingers for 5-10 minutes, two to three times a week.
You can also use a silicone massage brush instead of your fingers to massage the scalp and strengthen the hair fiber.
11 – Be Patient
To appreciate the results and transition from short to long hair, arm yourself with patience.
Establishing a good hair care routine and finding the right products take time.
Don’t forget the habits that facilitate growth, length retention, and the overall health of your hair.
12 – Take Care of Your Beard
The tips for hair growth apply to both your head and beard.
You can find beard-specific products in stores or make your growth-enhancing oils with vegetable oil of your choice (castor, olive, mustard, wheat germ, coconut…) and essential oils (rosemary, peppermint, ylang-ylang…).
13 – Perform Scalp Exfoliation
Scalp exfoliation detoxifies, removes dead skin, and eliminates excess products that can clog hair follicles.
This treatment should be done at least once a month. Create your scrub by mixing two tablespoons of coffee grounds with one tablespoon each of olive oil and avocado oil.
Apply the mixture to your roots, massage the scalp for about ten minutes, and then rinse.
14 – Protect Your Hair
Protect your hair from external aggressors like cold weather, pollution, and sun exposure, as well as friction, constant manipulation, and heat sources.
Avoid handling your hair too often. You can protect it with a cap during the day and sleep with a silk durag or satin bonnet at night.
Feel free to adopt protective hairstyles to minimize manipulation.
15 – Egg Hair Mask for Nourishment
The egg mask is a comprehensive treatment providing hydration, nourishment, and strengthening benefits.
To make the mask, you’ll need:
1 or 2 eggs, depending on your hair volume,
1 tablespoon of olive oil,
1 tablespoon of honey.
Using a beater, mix all the ingredients until you get a homogeneous paste like may
