Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond Reveals Steps She Took For Long, Healthy And Extension-free Hair

Ree Drummond is not only rocking a healthy body, but a healthy head of fire-red tresses, which btw is her natural hair color.

The Food Network star is happy to let fans in on a little secret as to why her hair is looking longer, fuller and more luxuriant than it naturally did some years ago. While this may not be a fix-hair-quick scheme – it took the ‘Pioneer Woman’ several years for her to get to where it is – it’s a proven strategy.

Ree Drummond – Opens Up About Phase Where She Wore “A Lot of Hair Extensions”

Drummond shared the tips in her Friday, May 31, blog titled ‘How I Finally Healed My Hair.’ It detailed the “crazy several-year” journey she took to achieve healthy (and entirely extension-free) tresses.

After sharing a throwback pic of her teen locks, the 55-year-old admitted that her hair “has been through the wringer.”

“The hair I’m tryna get back to,” she wrote alongside the photo of her ninth-grade self wearing her red hair in a voluminous blowout. She jokingly added, “the Jell-O molds, not so much.”

Detailing her hair journey, Drummond noted that she’s never been worried about her hair when she was younger, but it all changed about a decade ago when her hair started losing much of its volume.

In 2010, her hair had grown to become a darker, brunette-adjacent shade, but even then she didn’t feel the need to complement it with extensions. “I had not discovered hair extensions then and didn’t need them,” she wrote. “I didn’t do anything beyond shampoo, condition, blow dry and curl with a regular clamp curling iron.”

Then, in 2012, “things started to go south for my hair,” the TV personality said. “I had noticed the texture had slowly started to change; it seemed drier and a little more frizzy,” she recalled, adding that it was also “thinning” as evidenced by her ponytails being “a lot smaller.”

This began to bother Drummond, who revealed that by 2014 it “had really become clear that my hair was but a shadow of its former self” and this led her to try hair extensions. A lot of hair extensions, by her account.

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Ree Drumond – Reveals How She Finally Healed Her Hair

The star then included a picture where she rocked a full head of hair, but confessed only 15% of it was real and the rest was extensions.

“They may look decent in this photo, but this would usher in about six full years of constant hair extensions,” she wrote. “Because once I started getting hair extensions regularly, it made my already bad hair situation worse.”

“It was a vicious cycle,” she continued. “Because my natural hair was broken and unhealthy, I used hair extensions to get the volume and length that I preferred, but the longer I used hair extensions, the harder it was for my hair to heal.”

Fast forward to 2019 when nothing has changed and she was beginning to itch with the need to “run my fingers through my hair and not feel that signature hair extension evidence.”

However, when the pandemic happened, she started taking Vitamin D to avoid getting sick and saw great improvements to her hair.

With the improvement spurring her on, she decided to reduce the amount of hair lightening chemicals she used on her hair and cut back on the amount of heat she exposes her hair to.

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