Prevent Hair from Breaking Off
Preventing hair breakage is important, whether you're trying to grow your hair longer or want healthy and shiny hair. When your hair breaks off, it becomes weakened and the ends split. Thus, the split ends travel up the hair shaft shortening the hair. As a result, your hair breaks off in different places making your hair uneven and brittle. To prevent this, you'll need to avoid stressors, have a healthy daily routine, and get regular trims -- all of which we'll cover in this guide. Within a couple of weeks, your hair will be healthy, vibrant, and break-free.
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Steps
- Reduce or stop the things that cause hair to break off.
- Minimize the amount of heat you use on your hair when blow drying. The overuse of blow dryers can severely damage your hair by drying it out. If you have to use a blow dryer, squeeze out the excess water from your wet hair first. Also, keep the dryer about 8 inches (20.32 cm) away from your hair and use low to medium heat.
- Decrease the amount of relaxing, coloring and perming you do to your hair. Over perming, relaxing and coloring can make healthy hair brittle and dry before it breaks.
- Avoid some things that cause hair breakage such as chlorine, dirt and sun. Chlorine causes your scalp to itch and flake and your hair to break.
- Stop stressing out your hair. Pulling your hair too tightly into a style such as braids or a ponytail causes hair breakage. Also, handling your hair in a rough way promotes hair breakage.
- Keep your hair healthy.
- Shampoo your hair. However, you shouldn't wash your hair every day. Daily washing strips the hair of its' natural oils. Pick a shampoo that doesn't have harsh chemicals. Instead, look for products that have herbal or natural ingredients.
- Use a conditioner that has vitamin E to strengthen your hair.
- Moisturize your hair using a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner. You can also use a protein treatment to prevent hair breakage.
- Deep condition your hair. Buy a shower bonnet and a deep conditioning hair mask or hair mayonnaise to wear overnight. These products are very inexpensive and can be bought almost anywhere. Be sure to concentrate the product especially well on the ends of your hair. After applying the product of your choice, put on the bonnet and get some sleep. Apply a few times a week if possible.
- Alternatively, you can buy olive or coconut oil to use in your hair.
- Trim your hair approximately every 4-to-6 weeks. Trimming your hair instead of getting a haircut eliminates split ends and prevents your hair from breaking off.
Tips
- Use a wide tooth comb when brushing your hair this prevents breakage especially when your hair is wet as it is more fragile than ever.
- If your hair tangles up, you may want to use a leave-in conditioner that detangles your hair and prevents hair breakage.
- If you're a black female, you can avoid over processing your hair by having at least an inch (2.54 cm) of new growth before perming your hair. Instead continuously pretreat you hair to keep it healthy and shining in between perming or relaxing treatments. You can also prevent hair breakage by using a satin or silk pillowcase while you're sleeping. Cotton pillowcases may cause your hair to break off.
- Invest in a tangle teaser to comb hair, but only use it on semi dried hair. Finger comb wet hair.
Stop using a ceramic iron, you can get an InStyler instead.
Warnings
- Don't perm, relax or color your hair sooner than 8 weeks to prevent over processing.Don't Get It Braided For Over 4 months.Unless you want your hair to break off.
