Ever found yourself with hair that was prone to breakage, loaded with split ends or fried and straw like? Then you don't need me to tell you no one wants hair like that. There's a unique way of handling each problem just mentioned. So do you know what to do to get rid of the common causes of bad hair days that keep us from enjoying the hair of our dreams?
To that end, let's briefly look at split ends, breakage, damage from hot styling tools and over processed hair to see what can't be done to make the most traumatized hair healthy again. Or how you might avoid the problems to start with.
Your Mission: Stop Split Ends
Destroying your hair's protective cuticle with high heat leaves you with ends that are cracked and frayed. In no time the split travels up the hair shaft leaving you with badly damaged hair. There's only one way out. Cut your losses by getting your hair cut above where the splits stop to restore it to health. While a light trim every six to eight weeks will keep it that way.
Your Mission: Minimize Breakage
Hair breaks. It's a fact of hair life. But there are some common sense things you can do to keep breakage to a bare minimum. The idea is to keep your hair strong, the cuticle smooth and avoid doing dumb things that promote breakage. Silicone containing serum keeps hair smooth. Conditioning helps keep hair properly hydrated so it's more flexible and less likely to fracture. Shielding your hair from ultra violet rays and avoiding maximum hold hair sprays that can demolish hair is another good move. So is not relying on ultra tight pony tails as your fall back hair style. The excess tension only promotes breakage.
Your Mission: Use Heat Wisely
No question excess heat isn't good for your hair. At the extreme the high temps can bring the water inside a healthy strand to a boil. The resulting stream can rip that strand leaving it in tatters. Not that you should stop using hot styling tools. Just saying to make use of heat protectant and only use as much heat as it takes to do the job. Either of which is a better way to go, don't you think?
Your Mission: Processing Properly
Color treatments, relaxing or adding curls typically involve chemicals that can wreck havoc on your hair. Leaving it brittle, coarse and weak. Not to mention prone to frizz. Given the ways chemicals can alter your hair's underlying structure you need to pamper it afterwards. Doing things like deep conditioning to hydrate and soften. Using styling products loaded with protein. And remembering to give your hair at least four months between processing sessions.
If can be a fast fall from shiny and sleek to a hair disaster. But you can save your traumatized tresses. Being smart with heat, getting regular trims, and avoiding doing dumb things to it, your hair can be revitalized. And sooner than you'd think too.
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