Hair Yoga
by Jawed
Habib
Paperback, 150 pages
Published: 2014
Publisher: Random House
India
ISBN: 9788184004618
Blurb: Everyone today, whether man or
woman, has some or the other concern about their hair. We all want beautiful
hair and have different definitions of what beautiful hair is:shiny, thick,
lustrous, soft or flowy.
Everybody wants beautiful hair and all of us have at least one
hair problem. Hair Yoga is a book by Jawed Habib who is a professional
whom one can trust with their hair. He has his own salon in India and is
responsible for the gorgeous hair of many celebrities. He is also the one to
come up with the Xpreso cut which costs only Rupees 99. In this book he gives
you the styling and hair care tips that every individual requires so they can
have a good hair day every day.
Who in today’s world doesn’t know
Jawed Habib? I remember being just a little child when I first heard there was
this fellow called Jawed Habib who was the hairstylist of many a celebrities
and had a chain of salons of his own. I was quite smitten back then.
Now, when we had a book by him and
with a person as me who has hair issues as one of the biggest of her life, I
didn’t want to miss this one. After all sorts of information one would gather
on the internet, there was something to actually rely on and which came from a
real expert. Who would have wanted to miss the chance?
Like the book says, everyone wants
great hair. Everyone has tried something or the other to make their hair better
and almost everyone has a theory about how it should be done. Now that the
expert himself is guiding the way through, I wanted to go by real tried and
tested remedies than just the theories. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the
book.
The book tries to touch every aspect
of hair care that concerns an average person. Telling us of different types of
hair, Jawed Habib first of all helps us to figure out our hair type. Then he
enlightens us busting all the myths of haircare. Mind you, many of them pretty
much left me absolutely appalled realising that we hold so, so many myths about
tending our hair. The best of it was when it reduces to dust the most popular
Indian concept that oiling hair helps hair grow fast. ‘Oil feeds hair. It never
helps it to grow. Oil conditions hair… It is just an external hair care process
and has no relation with hair growth,’ it says.
Oil being so important as a part of
the Indian culture, a separate part of the book is dedicated to facts about oil
and what kind of oil would suit what type of hair. Further, after oiling,
washing it off is important. With separate chapters each on shampoos and
conditioners which suit particular hair types, Jawed Habib repeatedly tells us
that ‘everyday shampooing ruins hair’ is all a huge hoax. He tells us how
shampooing is the best thing one can do for their hair.
Even though the book has many
further chapters on myriad of things including brushing, styling, colouring,
hair protection, seasonal care, hair care for children, the book still seemed
somewhat incomplete to me. However, it convinced me well enough to have my
waist length hair cut down to a bob, which is a proof enough that it is very
convincing and informative. Yet, a lot of my questions remain unanswered in
hair yoga, the questions I actually hoped to have my answers to when I bought
the book.
I wouldn’t say it is the hair bible
that you would ever want, yet it tells you a lot of things which you might not
come across anywhere else. I would say, it is a 50-50 go. You’re definitely
going to add to your knowledge if you read it, however there isn’t something
great to miss on if you don’t.
