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: Prevent 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: Reduce 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 Hot Styling Tools Sparingly

Heat kills. Hair that is. At 212 degrees F or higher hot styling tools can actually make the water inside your hair boil. Resulting in steam that tears at the cuticle leaving it in tatters. Not exactly the desired affect now is it? Don’t misunderstand. I’m not suggesting hot tools much go, but you need to apply heat protectant before putting them to your hair. And then only at the lowest heat setting needed to do the job.

Your Mission: Use Chemicals Carefully

Coloring, straightening, perming all involve chemicals that can make hair porous, brittle and weak. And prone to frizz. No it’s not a permanent structural change. But chemicals can alter your hair. Which means you have to pamper processed hair. Bu deep conditioning with protein treatments to hydrate, strengthen and soften. And equally important by not subjecting your hair to such treatments any more often than every four months.

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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