• Keep Your Hair Healthy

• Tame Your Hair

• Set Your Hair Straight

• Fight Hair Loss

• How to Find Hair Care Items on eBay Australia

• Buy with Confidence

• Need More Help?

• Legal Disclaimer

Keep Your Hair Healthy

Keep Your Hair Healthy

High-quality hair care products can maximise your hair's potential, particularly the type of shampoo and conditioner you use. There are a variety of hair types that need to be considered when choosing a shampoo or conditioner:

• Normal hair: Use products designed for "normal" hair and use the quantities recommended on the bottle. Using too much conditioner can make your hair look greasy.

• Dry hair: Colouring, over-styling, chemical treatment, and frequent blow-drying can dry out your hair. Rejuvenate your hair with products that are designed to add moisture.

• Oily hair: Products designed for oily hair include fewer conditioning ingredients. Prevent your hair from getting greasy by applying a small amount of conditioner to the ends of your hair instead of your entire scalp. Also consider using a clarifying shampoo to wash out styling product buildup.

Condition your hair before you straighten or perm it, and always buy hair colour that includes a conditioner.

Maintain a healthy lifestyle

Believe it or not, what you eat can affect your hair’s health and appearance. It's important to get plenty of protein in your diet, as well as minerals such as zinc, iron, and copper. Vitamin A and vitamin B complex also help promote healthy hair and a healthy scalp.

Aging, hormonal changes, pregnancy, and weather will affect your hair no matter what, but reducing stress can go a long way toward improving its appearance.

Get a haircut

Maintaining healthy hair can be achieved as well by having it cut or trimmed regularly.

• Short hair: Every three to four weeks.

• Long hair: Every six to eight weeks.

Tame Your Hair

Tame Your Hair

Naturally, everybody wants their hair to look stylish and sensational. Styling products from Tigi, PPS, Aveda, Redken, L’Oreal, Fudge , and John Frieda are great for helping to keep your hair healthy and enhance how it looks, making it appear shinier, and more full-bodied.

• Gel: Use gel to shape and style your hair into spikes or apply gel to wet hair to achieve a "wet" look.

• Mousse: Add body while gaining style control with hair mousse.

• Hair spray: Hold your hair neatly in place.

• Hair wax: Achieve extreme punk rock looks or all-day up-dos with wax that only washes out with hot water.

• Pomade: Sparingly apply this waxy substance to your hair to give it a chunky look, eliminate frizz, or slick it back.

• Styling lotion: Use a lightweight hair styling lotion on normal and normal-to-fine hair.

• Texturiser: Quickly relax your hair and soften curls.

• Curl enhancers: Shape your hair’s natural curls.

• Straightening balm: Brush waves, curls, and frizz out of your hair.

Hair curlers and curling irons

Curl your hair for that special occasion with hair curlers or a curling iron.

• Hair curlers: Remington, and Breville, as well as other companies manufacture curlers and rollers designed for overnight wear. Plug in your set of curlers, let them heat up, roll each curler into your hair, and after a few minutes carefully unroll your new curls.

• Curling irons: Curling irons feature a plastic grip and metal rod that heats up. You place a section of hair in the curling iron, roll it, hold it, and wait a period of time for the curl to take before unrolling.

Hair-salon equipment

Take your hair care experience to the next level by bringing the salon experience home. Professional salon equipment available on eBay Australia ranges from salon furniture (salon chairs and nail tables) to facial machines and lights to high-end scissors. You can find all the supplies you need to open up your own beauty shop!

Set Your Hair Straight

Set Your Hair Straight

Different hair care products can help you complete your quest for straight hair. Start by looking for straightening shampoos, conditioners, balms, gels, sprays, and other frizz control styling products. These hair care products can be used on their own or in conjunction with hair dryers and straightening irons.

Blow-dry your hair straight

When selecting a device to dry your hair, you can choose a basic or professional hair dryer or blow dryer.

• Basic: Basic hair dryers have basic settings and come in a few different sizes: compact (or travel) or medium to full-size.

• Professional: Varying in wattage, professional dryers generally have multiple speed settings and a cold-air button. Some blow dryers have design features such as a lightweight body and ergonomically designed handles.

• Ionic blow dryer: Ionic hair dryers put out less heat than traditional dryers and dry hair faster, resulting in less damage to your hair.

The following steps will help for the best hair-straightening results:

1. Towel-dry your hair and then wait a bit before blow-drying so you’ll experience less hair damage.

2. Prepare your hair with a heat-activated product designed to protect your hair from styling damage before blow-drying.

3. Use a round brush to brush out your hair in flat strands. For more volume, round your hair with the brush.

4. When blow-drying, always point the dryer down to prevent frizz.

5. After you finish blow-drying with heat, switch to cool air to smooth your hair.

Iron your hair flat

When a hair dryer doesn’t render your hair flat enough, move on to a straightening iron (also called a flat iron) from a company like GHD, Muster , Remington, or Breville.

Straightening irons feature two long plates made of ceramic or metal. When the plates heat up, apply them to your hair, and wait for the heat to work its magic. Look for:

• Ceramic plates: More gentle than metal plates, ceramic plates work best for most people.

• Important settings: Consider a straightening iron that can be used on either wet or dry hair.

• High quality: You'll see a range of prices for straightening irons. Spend a little extra money on a quality straightening iron if you have thick and curly hair or fragile and thin hair.

When using a straightening iron:

• Apply a silicone and a straightening balm prior to ironing to protect your hair, set it, and lock moisture out.

• Don’t use straightening irons every day as the direct contact of the high heat to your hair can be damaging.

• Only use straightening irons on clean hair. Dirt and grease will cook on the iron and damage your hair.

Regularly clean flat iron plates with rubbing alcohol and a clean cloth to remove accumulated hair product residue.

Fight Hair Loss

Fight Hair Loss

Slow, prevent, or mask hair loss.

• Slow or prevent hair loss: Treatments such as Rogaine can help balding men and women suffering from alopecia (hereditary hair loss) grow new hair. Look for a product targeted for your gender.

• Add hair: Hair extensions cover baldness or fill out your hair for fun and fashion. They can thicken and add length and highlights.

How to Find Hair Care Items on eBay Australia

How to Find Hair Care Items on eBay Australia

Once you know what type of hair care items you want, go to the Beauty & Health portal, click Hair Care, and start searching for item listings on eBay Australia.

• Categories: The Categories list on the left side of each page will help you narrow down your listings by item type. You'll find links for Shampoo, Conditioner, Hair Dryers, Straightening Irons, Hair Accessories, and more.

• Keyword search: Search eBay Australia title listings for specific words. For example, if you want to find a comb, type "comb” (without quotation marks) into the Search box. Click "Search title and description" to expand your results. Visit eBay Australia's Search Tips page for more tips on searching with keywords.

If you can't find exactly what you want, try shopping eBay Stores, tell the eBay Australia Community what you want by creating a post on Want It Now, or save a search on My eBay and eBay Australia will email you when a match becomes available.

Buy with Confidence

Buy with Confidence

Before making your purchase, make sure you know exactly what you're buying, research your seller, and understand how eBay Australia and PayPal protect you.

Know your purchase

Carefully read the details in item listings.

• Figure delivery costs into your final price. If you spend a lot of money, make sure the seller will insure the item when it ships.

• If you want more information, ask by clicking the "Ask seller a question" link under the seller's profile.

• Always make sure to complete your transaction on eBay Australia (with a bid, Buy It Now, or Best Offer). Transactions conducted outside of eBay Australia are not covered by eBay Australia protection programs.

• Never pay for your eBay Australia item using instant cash wire transfer services through Western Union or MoneyGram. These payment methods are unsafe when paying someone you do not know.

Know your seller

Research your seller so you feel positive and secure about every transaction.

• What is the seller's Feedback rating? How many transactions have they completed? What percentage of positive responses do they have?

• What do buyers say in their Feedback? Did the seller receive praise?

• Most top eBay Australia sellers operate like retail stores and have return policies. Do they offer a money-back guarantee? What are the terms and conditions?

Buyer protection

In the unlikely event that a problem arises during your transaction, eBay Australia and PayPal are there for you.

• Pay safely with PayPal: PayPal enables you to pay without the seller ever seeing your bank account or credit card numbers. In fact, PayPal protects buyers 100% against unauthorised payments from their accounts. Plus, with PayPal Buyer Protection, your purchase can be covered up to $1,500.

eBay Australia Security & Resolution Centre: Visit the Security & Resolution Centre to learn how to protect your account and use eBay Australia's quick and efficient resolution tools.

Need More Help?

Need More Help?

Visit our help pages or start a thread on one of our Community Discussion Boards - If you have a quick question that needs answering, try posting it on our community Answer Centre - there's bound to be a seasoned eBay Australia veteran with just the information you're looking for!

Legal Disclaimer

Legal Disclaimer

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