Trimming/Cutting your hair WILL NOT make it grow faster. It WILL help your hair to be healthier.
It is a common belief if your cut your hair it will grow faster. I hear this so often. Hair grows from your scalp. It doesn't matter what length it is.
By keeping your ends trimmed you cut off the split ends as well as prevent them.
If you are trying to grow your hair long....keep the ends cut every 4-6 weeks. Just a buffing (no length just the edges). Split ends will split up and continue to split as it shortens your hair. This is why so many clients complain there hair is "just not growing".
Make sure your stylist is aware of your intent to grow it longer...that you do not want any length taken off. Just the edges.
Your hair grows from follicles within the skin. The part of the hair inside the follicle (below the skin's surface) is known as the hair root, while the portion you see protruding from the head is the hair shaft. At the base of the hair root is the hair bulb where nutrients are received and new cells are formed. Also within the hair follicle are the dermal papilla (a cone shaped protrustion at the base of the follicle which feeds blood - and therefore nutrients - to the hair bulb), the sebaceous gland (or oil gland) which lubricates and keeps the hair healthy and shiny, as well as the arrector pili, a tiny muscle anchored to the follicle. The arrector pili respond to stimulus (fear or cold) causing them to contract and make the hair stand up straight. Taking nutrients from the dermal papilla, the hair bulb generates new hair cells. As these cells move up through the hair root, they mature through a process called keratinization, fill with fibrous protein and lose their nucleus. When the cell loses its nucleus it is no longer alive. By the time the hair emerges from the skin it is merely fiber made of keratinized proteins.
So this means your hair is made of mostly protein. Eat a protein-rich diet to avoid hair thinning and/or disruption in your hair growth.
Excessive stress plays a major role in blocking your hair growth.
Also, there is a wide range of medications on the market today with hair loss as the top side effect.
The use of products designed to protect the hair from everyday use of heat (blow drying/flat irons/curling irons,etc.)will keep your ends healthy and help to stop the hair from getting split ends. Like a leave in moisturizer.
This also helps in the summer when your out in the sun for long periods of time and in the pools.
Do not brush your hair when it is wet. Gently comb through your hair instead. Brushing and pulling on wet hair causes it to break.... creating split ends.
Next Blog post....repairing split ends????
Happy Hair!!!
