5 Hair Care Tips from the Experts. Here are 5 tips from hair care experts for their best hair-care tips, no matter what your style, texture, length, and color. Try them and you’ll be a believer too.

Rule 1. Be gentle with soaked strands. Wet hair stretches and snaps more easily than dry hair, so during post-shower moments you really have to handle your locks with care. Never — and by that we mean never — brush damp strands.
Use a wide-tooth comb to unsnarl tangles, and work upward from the ends, where knots tend to cluster, to the roots. (Comb wet curly or wavy hair only when you’re working conditioner through in the shower.) When drying, don’t scrub madly with a towel; that will only add more knots and invite breakage. Just gently squeeze out excess water, and then use the towel to blot your hair.

Rule 2. Don’t go crazy with at-home color. Less is always more when it comes to coloring or highlighting at home. When you’re making a color change, stay within two shades of your natural hue. (Any more than that and you should let a pro handle it.) Go easy with highlights too. You don’t have to use all the bleach in the kit, and you don’t have to use it all over your hair. Highlights look more believable if you focus them around the face. That’s how you get that ‘Oh, I’ve just been out in the sun’ look. In other words, your hair should say “beach,” not “bleach.”

Rule 3. Do skip a shampoo — even two. Nasty? Nope. Letting your hair get a little dirty allows natural oils from the scalp to work their way down the hair shaft. It keeps hair healthy. Daily sudsing scrubs those natural conditioners away and is usually unnecessary anyway. The exception: very fine hair, which gets oily fast. If that’s you, go for a super-kind formula, and condition only your ends in the shower. If your locks need a lift on in-between days, mist your hair with water to rework your style.

Rule 4. Don’t make a big change right before a big event. It could be a scary reality TV series: When Christmas Party Hair Goes Wrong. You definitely don’t want to be the start of that show, so never cut, color, or dramatically change your hair within 10 days of a big dance, your first day back to school, a date with Justin Timberlake, or any other major event. With the 10-day rule, if you hate your new do, you’ll have enough time to figure out how to deal with it. The same rule applies to big-night updos: Give them a test drive ahead of time to find out how to keep your strands up — before they let you down. This is not the kind of thing you want to worry about in the ladies’ room at homecoming.

Rule 5. Don’t be afraid to experiment. Did you know that you have “styling aids in your kitchen? For instance, an egg makes a great hair thickener. Mix the egg with a tablespoon of shampoo, lather up, and then rinse out after five minutes. More style: You can get extra texture by applying a quarter-size dollop of shaving cream to dry hair, then flipping your head upside down and blow-drying. The point is, you’ll never know what kind of cool hair you could have unless you play with it. Get some friends to bring over their styling stuff too, so you can trade, try out, and play.

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