Whether you are trying to grow your hair or merely want to make your locks look healthier, avoiding breakage and split ends is a necessity
It’s natural to lose between 50 – 100 strands of hair per day, but damaged hair could increase this amount and really affect your style.
Why does breakage occur?
Hair can become weak and frail from destructive styling techniques. Too much heat, over processed colour and poor overall care can cause the your hair strands to split and eventually break off.
Tips to banish breakage
Minimise heat exposure.
Overuse of hairdryers, straighteners and curlers can really have a harmful effect. This is known as ‘frying’, which causes a change in texture and hair to become fragile. Try turning the heat down on your irons and use a heat protectant when you need to style it.
Avoid Over-processing
Over processed hair can be brittle, which leads to easy breakage. If you must colour and bleach your hair, remember that in the summer, UV rays can also take the colour out of your hair naturally – s0 protection is essential.
Products such as Aveda’s Protective Hair Veil will be water-resistant and defend your hair against UV damage and sun exposure for up to 16 hours.
You use after sun on your skin, so take into account your hair too. Using after-sun hair masque by Aveda is proven to renovate sun-exposed hair by moisturising and contains morikue protein, which helps renovate weakened hair.
Avoid combing your hair while it’s wet
Your hair is weakest when wet so you have to be careful when using certain types of brushes or combs on wet hair. Too much pulling can causes hair strands to snap. We recommend using a Tangle Teezer to comb out any knots in your hair to avoid damage.
Get Your hair cut your hair regularly
This might seem counter intuitive if you’re trying to grow it, but in the long run it will stop your hair from splitting, keep it healthy and enable your hair to become longer, quicker. We recommend booking a hair cut ever 6 -8 weeks.
Get To Know Your Split Ends
Split ends don’t just mean a simple breaking of the stand; there are different types. Below is a diagram, knowing what type of breakage you have can help you choose the treatment to repair.
Don’t Style Too Tight
If you’re a fan of the tight topknot or ponytail, try wearing it a tad looser. Yes the style may be straightforward, but by scraping your hair forcefully into a bun it tugs on the hairline and creates tension on your scalp, which could lead to thinning. The same goes if you’re a hair puller, this instigates stress on the strands and causes it to snap.
Is your Diet Is Lacking Protein?
Protein is a necessity for your hair to remain strong, not only does it repair weak spots, it wards off breakage. Foods loaded in protein include kidney beans, salmon and nuts to name a few.
Above might seem like a big regime change, but it doesn’t mean you have to cut out blow-drying, using hair straighteners or dying your hair completely.
Now that you are aware of the consequences, you can simply be more careful about what you do to your hair and it should make a world of difference.
If you feel your hair is damaged and you would like to talk to someone about making it better, call the salon on 02084676915 and book to have free consultation with one of our hair experts.
