How to fix split ends?

We’d love to share some of our top tips to fix (repair) split ends!

Every woman worldwide was dealing with dead ends at some moment. Men with longer hair, too. Split ends are the most common type of damage, easy to the solution, prevent and stop, with the right approach. We’ll teach you how.

Therefore, continue reading, invest a little bit of time in learning something new about your hair. You will find great tips, we promise! Follow our advice, and let us know more about the effects on your hair. However, you are going to love the results.

What causes split ends?

It’s easy to avoid splitting ends when you know what directly destroys your ends, and not only ends but the whole hair including your roots and scalp.

Bleaching

• Partial bleaching (highlights, ombre or balayage techniques, and all other colorations)

• Full hair covered with the bleach is more harmful to your hair; in fact, the more bleached parts you have, the more damage is a consequence.

Always protect your hair when you applying bleach – Ask your hairdresser to add ’Olaplex’ in the bleach mixture, or any other protector that she/he has.

When you do “hard work” on your hair you should always have a conversation with your stylist about damaging, protecting and recovering your hair. At least, you will be informed about the whole procedure, so you will make the right decision if you do the coloration or not.

When it comes to bleach, the less is more, is my motto. Why?

Because it still looks great – you can have 20 highlights on your hair, or you can have 200 highlights. We all know what is more harmful to your hair.

When you want to make a change with your hair color, think:

Will it damage your hair? What is the level of current damage? Can your hair “survive” the procedure? How can you minimalize the damage? How to treat your hair after the procedure?

When you know all these answers, and when you are sure that your hair won’t suffer, then GO on! Make a change. Refresh your look. You gonna feel great after you change your look.

Heat damage

Heat is the best friend when it comes to hairstyling, but a big and cruel enemy for your hair’s health. Keep that in mind.

Use protection against the heat, this is the most mandatory rule. You can find great heat protecting sprays and cremes on the market.

Coloration

Too much and too often coloration can be pretty much harmful to your hair. Even when there is not any bleach involved. However, all procedures that make your hair different from it was, potentially can cause the damage. Your hair is strong and resistant, but if you cross the line with stressing it, you should expect some consequences.

These consequences are dry and dull hair, damaged and split ends, breakage, etc…

And you don’t want any of these, do you?

Quick tips for color-treated hair

• Use a color-treated hair shampoo
• Hair mask once a week – MANDATORY
• Do not color your whole hair more than once a month
• If you are blondie, your color goes ONLY on your roots
• Use a smaller percentage of hydrogen-peroxide– ideally 20 vol.
• Easy with the brushing, especially if you have long or thin hair
• If you have vibrant red, orange, green, blue, or any other intense color, use a color conditioner, booster for your color, instead of permanent hair color. You will save your hair, and your color will be even cooler.

Mechanical damage

So, next time you start brushing your hair, can you do it nice and easy? Gentle and slow?

Brush your hair starting from your ends, and moving slightly up. Divide your hair into sections, if it’s necessary. If it’s painful, please stop, and start over. Don’t be more aggressive, if the comb won’t move or stuck. You just torture your hair and causing more damage than you think you do. Way more.

However, the wrong “combing technique” leads to damage and split ends, at first. If you continue combing your hair in the wrong way, the next step is extreme dryness, and the final step is breakage.

To prevent all these terrible consequences, all you need to do is to add 1 more minute and piece patience to your daily combing technique.

However, let me repeat the perfect combing therapy:

1. Divide your hair into the sections, if necessary
2. Start combing from your ends and move slightly up
3. If you feel pain while combing, stop immediately, and start over from the beginning
4. Pick a good comb or brush.

So, here, we have three worst enemies: Bleaching, Heat, and Mechanical damage.

Moreover, there are small ’tiny’ enemies that kill your ends very efficiently. These tiny enemies are your daily habits. You will be surprised what can hurt your hair. So, let’s start.

Daily habits

Holding your hair too long under the towel

Wet hair is vulnerable. Remember that. We can blame the towel for dryness, static electricity and split ends. Don’t wait till your hair gets dry under the towel. Never.

Tight up wet hair

Again, wet hair is vulnerable. Tends to stretch more, so putting a nice-firm ponytail or a bum is a real killer, that leads directly to split ends and breakage. Don’t tighten up against your hair, never, neither wet or dry.

Using hair accessories that have metal parts

Your hair doesn’t like metal. The metal pieces can break your hair, causing split ends, broken pieces, and uneven strands.

Aggressively combing

Please, be patient and gentle when it comes to combing. As we said at the beginning of this article.

Touching and playing with your hair

Touching your hair leads to greasiness, lousy style, and breakage. Try to play with the pencil instead, and stop twisting and playing with your hair.

Now that you meet all your hair’s enemies, you will reduce the appearance of splitting ends.

If you had some bad habit, or if you over-proceed, add too much heat, or aggressively combing, now it’s the right time to stop with that. We’ll give you four reasons why:

• Your hair will be healthier
• Easier combing
• Prolong the period between cuts

However, split ends are a hair “disease”, something which is unhealthy. Therefore, if you have split ends, you have to know that split ends are spreading more and more all over your hair.

The first thing you have to do is to cut split ends. You have to cut all the damaged parts of the hair, to stop the spreading.

With the regular haircut, every three-five months, and using a proper hair care range, plus all tips mentioned above, that is the recipe for healthy hair. You will forget how split ends look like. Which is our goal here.

Above all, I have to mention my favorite, life-saver forever product. I have a special emotion towards this one – I am in love with this sealing creme. It let my hair grow long, shiny, and resistant. Prolonged the period between cuts. A long-lasting hairstyle, thanks to the high percentage of proteins.

Redken Extreme Anti-snap, Split ends treatment- This creamy treatment intensely conditions and smoothens hair and delivers a silky soft finish, without weighing your hair down. Stops the breakage immediately, recover split ends, and prevents future damage. Smells amazing, provides thermal protection, and adds a fantastic shine in the end. Protects your hair against the heat and humidity, both. Apply it on towel-dried hair, a small quantity of product, like a peanut size, and rinse it out after 10-15 minutes. For me, the best hair care product in the world.

Dealing with split ends is the war you can win, easier than you think. Prevention is as important as curing. Even more important.

Start applying advice from this article, and we promise you, that you will win over split ends, your hair will be healthy and happy. If your hair needs to recover, do a haircut, deep treatment, use a hair mask once a week and a product for your ends. You will notice a big difference in your hair’s appearance. You will be happy and proud. Satisfied with your beautiful, healthy hair.

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