what can you do for split ends and breakage?

Question

i straighten my hair every day and i have quite a few split ends and a lot of breakage. what can i do to help prevent this, and to help repair it?

i know that straightening my hair everday isnt a good idea, but i only do it when im going somewhere, which is usually about 5 day a week at least. but anyways, theres no way you can convince me not to, so please i would appreciate help with what i asked for

for the second answer:
i do put a serum on, and i do use paul mitchell

again. i will not straighten my hair every-other day. thats gross. i will do it everyday, no matter what the damage is. please just answer my questions

Answer 1

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Take good care of your hair! It will add to your charm - who can resist a person with lovely, silky hair? So do try out the above tips! Hope these littles tips have been useful! :)


Tips To Stop Hair Loss & Keep Healthy Hair Here are some hair care tips that you can use to help stop hair loss and keep your existing hair healthy and looking great. Please don't take these tips lightly. They are very important . The only thing they require is your time and commitment.

- Massage your scalp with your fingertips (not your nails) daily to stimulate and promote circulation to your scalp and reduce excess fallout. Invert your head while you shampoo & massage your scalp. This helps promote blood circulation to the head.

- Essential oils & tea . To stimulate scalp circulation, massage the scalp with rosemary essential oil or rinse hair with tea made from sage.

- Comb or brush your hair and scalp gently in the morning and at night. This helps break up hardened oils (sebum) that are clogging your hair follicles. Doing this alone has produced new hair growth. Do not over do combing or brushing.

- keep a distance from dryer's heat. When using blow dryers, always keep the heat a good distance from your scalp and hair. Avoid heating the scalp and hair excessively. Excessive heat will increase hair loss, and excess fallout.

- Avoid getting hair creams, lotions, styling gels and sprays directly on the scalp as they will clog your hair follicles. Use a light hold spray if you must.

- After swimming in a pool, shampoo your hair as soon as possible to remove any chlorine residue. Chlorine is extremely damaging to the hair and scalp.

- Avoid over-exposing your hair and scalp to the wind and sun. Good hair care over a long period really makes a difference!

- Avoid tight hats and caps as they contribute to poor circulation, depriving the hair of proper nutrition and stunting new hair growth. The sweat, dirt and grime around the rim inhibit follicle health and contribute to build-up.

- Always consult your health care provider for extreme causes of excess fallout and thinning. A medical condition or medication could be causing hair loss side-effects.

- Strive for balance and harmony in both your personal and professional lifestyle. High stress factors can cause your body to react by fluctuating hormone levels. This in turn causes excessive oil secretion (sebum) which results in hair loss.

- Pregnancy, nursing, menopause, and even birth control medication can cause constant changing factors on your nutritional needs and hormonal levels which contribute to hair loss and excess fallout.

- Avoid "crash and fad" diets. Proper nutritious meals along with vitamin and mineral supplements are a key factor for healthy hair and skin.

- Good hair care starts with awareness. These hair care tips, if followed consistently, will reduce excess fallout, hair loss, and promote new hair growth.

- Reduce hair loss effects by increasing your intake of vitamin C found in fresh fruits and vegetables, particularly citrus fruit and juices, parsley, broccoli, green peppers and black currants. Take a vitamin B complex everyday or brewers yeast. Increase your intake of protein found in meat, fish, liver, wheat germ, dried cooked beans and peas, tofu, cheese, milk and eggs.

- Take dietary supplements such as Vitamin B6, zinc & saw palmetto. Supplements are useful when you can't get enough from natural food sources.

- The Chinese believe that hair is nourished by the blood, and therefore influenced by the kidney & liver. Treatment is aimed at these organs using fleece flower root, wolfberry fruit or mulberry fruit.

- Eliminate stress or else it can be disastrous to your precious hair!

- Get enough sleep. Sleeping well is essential for the health of your hair as well as for the rest of your body.








There are ways you can help stop the grease from appearing but you have to work at it.

Do not wash everyday. The cleaner your hair is the more it can seep into your glands and harder it is to get rid of. When you do wash make sure you are washing with a cleaning shampoo and scrubbing the build up off. Take in mind that you also have to have a ph-balanced mild shampoo and lite scrubbing is recommended. Try to avoid conditioner at the roots, apply in the middle or on the ends.

Try to avoid oil in your daily food intake. And do eat more vegetables. You could visit your doctor but only after you check and consider your diet, drugs, alcohol, and your fatty food intake. Let's face it we see what McDonalds can do to your heart in a month, can you image your hair. You would be dripping everywhere.

Maybe it's time to change your shampoo. Ask your stylist what she or he would recommend. Avoid using shine products at all costs. Keep away from two-in-one shampoos and conditioners and any frizz serums.

To fix at the moment, rub a little Talcum Powder on your dried hair at the roots. Just make sure you wash it out. I wish they would event that magic product, but this will help until they do.




Here are 10 tips for to keep your hair strong, smooth, shiny and beautiful!

1. Keep your diet balanced, and eat protein and calcium rich foods. Stay away from junk foods! This is essential for healthy hair.

2. Foods and supplements to nourish your hair:


* Beans
* Yogurt
* Almonds
* Vitamin B
* Fish
* And of course, the magic potion for beauty - WATER

3. Before washing your hair, comb it well to make sure all knots has been loosened from your hair.

4. Before applying shampoo, use warm water (35 to 38 degrees Celsius) to run through your hair to rinse and wet it thoroughly.

5. When applying shampoo or conditioner, don't use your fingernails to scrape through your hair. Instead, use your palm and fingertips to massage your scalp and hair gently, in circular motions. This will help the circulation and also help to keep your hair shiny and smooth.

6. After rinsing away all the shampoo, run water over your hair for at least another half a minute (3 minutes is best) to ensure there are no remains of shampoo remaining in your hair, since this will cause a great deal of damage to your scalp.

7. When applying hair treatment products, do so just after you have washed your hair, so that your hair can absorb all the good stuff while it is half wet. This will be the best time for it to absorb nourishment.

8. NEVER go to bed with your hair wet! Hair that is half wet is most easily broken, and if you sleep during this time, your hair will be rubbing against each other, damaging your hair in the most terrible way.

9. Too much pressure may lead to hair loss! Relax... try some good relaxation methods such as soaking in a nice scented bath, listening to music, and eating healthy comfort foods such as strawberries and grapes.

10. Perming and coloring seriously damages your hair. Avoid it as much as possible. Also, when using hair setting products such as gel or putty, use as little as possible, because they hurt your scalp and hair. Wash them out thoroughly afterwards with a shampoo specially created for removing styling products.

Answer 2

Split ends and breakage are caused by improper care of your hair.
1. Use a good shampoo and conditioner! Ask your stylist to prescribe the proper products for the needs of your hair, not something you buy at the grocery store! Would you take medicine without a prescription from your doctor, or without knowing what the problem is?
2. Cut the ends of your hair on a regular basis ie: every 4-6 weeks because this keeps the ends from drying out, and when the hair ends are not kept blunt they Frey and open up and start loosing the moisture they need to stay shiny and healthy looking. It will also grow faster because it is healthy!
3. Stop straightening your hair every day! If you use good styling products on your hair it will help to keep it straighter longer!
4. Make sure you use good products that protect your hair from heat damage! Ask your stylist what she recommends to protect the hair from heat damage.
5. Talk to your stylist about conditioning treatments she can do in the salon to help repair the damage you have done at home.

If you do all these things, you wil see a big improvement in your hair and so will everyone else. The end result will be a gorgeous you!

Answer 3

Take any of the following oils.....
Olive oil, coconut oil, or avocado oil, and apply to the hair, WHILE ITS DRY! Work it through from scalp to ends, cover with some type of plastic cap.. then take a towel HOT from the dryer, and wrap it around your head turban style..... Leave it on for about one hour, or even more for extra dry, damaged hair.
Wash your hair with a tiny bit of moisturizing shampoo and conditioner. Run your hair under cold water. Squeeze out the excess water and apply GOOD leave in conditioner to your hair.( I like Biolage leave in, or Kava).
Unfortunatly, once you have the split ends, a good trim is about the only thing that will get rid of them, but this oil treatment is the bomb! I reccommend it once a week, or every 2 weeks.



Tips
Before you get out of the shower, rinse your hair with cold water. This will make your hair extra shiny!
When blowdrying your hair, make sure the hairdryer is pointing down, so that all the hair folicles point down, which equals super shiny hair, which is the look we're going for! Also, before blow-drying, consider applying a heat protection spray.
Don't use too much hair serum or hair products, because you don't want your hair to look lank and greasy.
Some good products to try: Chi Silk Infusion or Paul Mitchell Heat Defense , Nexxus Heat Protexx.
If your hair is fragile, use a low setting on the iron. If it's thick and unruly, make the heat almost the hottest it can be.



Warnings
Don't brush your hair when it's wet, because it stretches and breaks the hair. Always use a wide-toothed comb.
If you're in a rush and need to dry your hair, don't take the easy way out and use your hair straightner when it's wet. See that steam coming out? It dries out your hair. Always use a hairdryer prior to straightening.
ALWAYS use heat protection spray or else your hair will get damaged from straightener.

Answer 4

To get rid of your split ends with out lopping off you length do this:

1. Get a friend to help you
2. Section your hair into small pieces
3. Twist your hair, but not to tightly and then run your fingers gently over what you twisted (all the hairs that are fried will stick out)
4. Take the scissors and just cut off the ends that are split.

This is a instant fix. A little time consuming, but well worth it in my opinion.

I use to fry my hair with perms and highlights and the one thing that helped was to once a week put a really good deep conditioner, wrap your head in saran wrap and put the blowdryer on low and heat up your head. When your head is real warm, wrap in a towel and wait for it to cool off, then rinse in lukewarm water.
Maybe consider chemically straightening your hair. I did once and loved my results. My hair seemed healthier too than when I flat ironed it everyday.

Hopes this helps!

Answer 5

There are special shampoos and conditioners for split ends and breakage that actually worked. I would also recommend not straightening your hair every day, because that can cause a lot of damage to your hair.

Answer 6

keep your hair trimmed on a regular basic usually every 4 to 6 weeks since you do straighted your hair. Also use a professional product such as Sleek by Matrix if not Sleek make sure you put something on your hair to protect if from the heat of the straightener or any other heat instruments you use

Answer 7

First, give it a trim. Then use Panteene ProV. I have found that the deep conditioning treatment works really well. Or the Aussie brand 3-min mirical deep conditioner is good too. Try using a hot oil treatment once a week (you can buy them at the grocery store , target, ect.)

Answer 8

first, get a cut for the split ends. then, to prevent further damage, put a sealer or syrum on before you straighten. it helps to protect hair from damage while giving you an amazing shine. paul mitchell is my personal favorite!

Answer 9

repair: trim off split ends. conditioner. leave-in conditioner. do not be in anyway rough with your hair.

prevent: use straightening iron less often maybe everyother day or every two days. use a protection product found at your local walmart or drugstore(like thermasilk's leave-in conditioner heat protection). comb your hair, dont use a brush too often as it can result in split ends.

Answer 10

i have trouble with split ends as well. this might not sound good but wash your hair with mayo it puts cholesterol back into your hair or if you have the funds and can get to a beauty shop such as sally beauty supply you can buy cholesterol treatment for your hair last time i bought some there it cost about $8

Answer 11

So I also know its not that of a good idea straightening ur hair but I would say maybe don't do it that often and use hair washers for ur hair and mousse..