Hair oil used to scare me. I just imagined greasy, shiny, waxy, hair covered in residue. But let me tell you: that is not what hair oil should do for your hair.

My first hair oil love is the Healing Oil by Virtue. I had used it off and on for a little while but started to use it nightly on a particularly damaged piece of hair by my hairline. It was a section that was burned off from chemical bleaching and heat, so it was **fried**. I didn’t want bangs, so I knew I had to try to repair this section of hair before it kept getting shorter and shorter.

The Healing Oil not only softened and smoothed out that rough, damaged section of my hair, but it healed it. The protein in healing oil filled in the damage of the hair and kept it from splitting higher and higher (that’s what damaged ends will do if you don’t take care of them).
I applied it to that damaged area nightly, and would usually run it through my dry hair after heat styling in the mornings. The oil is light enough that it doesn’t make my hair feel weighed down, but man it’s effective nonetheless.

A different hair oil that I’ve loved recently is the Rene Furterer Karite Nutri Intense Nourishing Oil. This oil is used much differently than the Virtue Healing Oil (and does different things!).

My stylist recommended this to me because my hair is just, well, dry. I do a lot of work to it, and I also take pretty good care of it, but it’s just dry. My hairstylist ...