7 DIY hair masks we know you’ll love

• Nikhil Rana
• July 15, 2026
• Beauty
• hair masks
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Hey!

I used to think I was doing everything when it came to my hair. I would buy those hair masks that come in little pots and cost as much as a meal. I would follow all the instructions leave it on for the right amount of time and rinse with cold water even though I hate cold water. My hair would look fine just fine not great, not amazing just fine.

I felt of cheated you know like I paid all that money and did all that work and for what so my hair would be slightly softer. I could have bought a pizza with that money. The pizza would have made me happier.

One night I was really broke like I was eating rice and beans broke and my hair was a mess, tangled and just sad looking. I could not afford to buy anything, not the cheap stuff from the drugstore.

So I opened my fridge. I just stood there staring at a brown banana a half-empty jar of honey and some coconut oil that my roommate left behind when she moved out.

I thought, what is the worst that could happen. I will tell you what the worst is, the worst is banana chunks many banana chunks because I did not blend it I just mashed it with a fork like an idiot. And I spent forty minutes after my shower picking stringy bits out of my hair forty minutes I almost cut it all off I was that frustrated.

Here is the thing after I finally got all the chunks out after my hair dried it was soft really soft like I kept touching it while I was watching TV like I texted my sister at 11pm just to tell her.

I thought, oh, that is it that is all it took a banana, some honey, some oil, stuff I already had.

So I kept doing it not every week just when I remembered, just when I had a minutes just when my hair felt sad.

And I messed up a lot I used water with an egg mask and cooked the egg into my hair that was a bad night I stood in the shower for so long just picking at my own head wondering where I went wrong in life.

I put lemon juice in my hair. I sat in the sun for a time because I really wanted to get some nice highlights.. I did not get highlights. My hair turned orange it looked like a pumpkin. My hair was so orange it was like I had done something to my own head like I had hurt my own hair. I was trying to get lemon juice highlights. All I got was orange hair and it looked really bad.

I put lemon juice in my hair. Sat in the sun because I wanted highlights I did not get highlights I got orange my hair turned orange like a pumpkin like I had committed a crime against my own head.

I am not coming at this from a place of expertise I am coming at this from a place of I have done things so maybe you do not have to.

The ones that actually worked the ones that I still do sometimes when I have a banana that’s too brown to eat or an avocado that has been sitting on the counter too long they are simple they are not fancy they are just food that I put on my hair.

There is the honey one for when my hair feels like straw, honey and coconut oil and an egg yolk that’s it I mix it in a bowl I put it on my hair when it is damp I leave it for like twenty minutes I rinse with cool water because I learned my lesson about hot water and eggs and my hair feels like hair again not like straw, just hair.

There is the banana one, for when my hair’s frizzy a ripe banana like really ripe, almost embarrassing ripe olive oil, a spoon of yogurt but I have to blend the banana I have to I learned that the hard way no chunks, just smooth banana goo then I put it on my dry hair I leave it for fifteen minutes I rinse a lot and my hair is calm like it took a deep breath.

There is the beer one I know, I know it sounds crazy but beer and an egg white and a little lemon it gives my hair volume like actual bounce like my hair looks like it has opinions I did this before a wedding once and I felt so fancy all because of a beer I left out overnight.

There is the one, for when my hair has been through a lot, heat damage, color damage, just life damage, half an avocado some aloe, a little oil I mash it until it is smooth I put it on my dry hair I cover it with a shower cap I leave it for half an hour and my hair feels strong like it got a hug like it is okay.

But here is what I really want to say the thing that took me the longest to learn my hair does not need to be perfect it really does not it can be frizzy it can be flat it can have a bump in the back that I can not see but I can feel and it bothers me more than it should it is fine it is just hair.

The world is not looking at my hair closely as I am I promise, no one is inspecting the flyaways no one is counting the dry ends no one cares if my part is straight we care so much too much we look in the mirror and we see every little thing that is wrong but other people they see me they see my face they see my smile they do not see the frizz.

I have a friend who never does anything to her hair she washes it with whatever shampoo’s on sale she lets it air dry she does not even own a hair dryer and her hair is fine she is fine she is happy she spends her time on other things.

I have another friend who spends hours on her hair, products, tools, masks, the whole thing and she is happy too because she likes it she likes the ritual she likes taking care of herself.

Both of them are fine that is what I am trying to say there is no way there is no wrong way there is just what works for you and what does not what makes you feel good and what does not.

So if you want to put a banana on your head on a Tuesday night because you are stressed and you need twenty minutes of sitting with a shower cap on do it it is nice it is calming your hair might get softer that is a bonus.

If you do not want to do not your hair will be fine you will be fine I still do these masks sometimes not because I need to because I like the feeling of making something I like the mess I like the quiet I like sitting on my bathroom floor with my cat judging me.

Week I did the avocado one I fell asleep with it on woke up an hour later with dried avocado in my hair and a weird neck it was fine I rinsed it out my hair was soft my neck was sore for a day worth it.

Yeah that is all I have got do not use hot water with eggs blend the banana do not put lemon juice in your hair unless you want to look like a pumpkin and be gentle, with yourself your hair is doing its best so are you.

Now go eat something drink some water and maybe do not put mayonnaise on your head just trust me on that one.