The cuticle layers over the fragile cortex in each of your hairs to protect it. Without protection, the cortex quickly unravels, and your hair falls apart. Hair can't repair itself, so once it's damaged, there's no solution but for us to cut it off. To keep your hair healthy and to grow the longest hair possible, it's best to avoid hurting it in the first place. Unfortunately, there are many ways your hair can be damaged, such as sun exposure, rough handling, backcombing, heat styling, bleaching, and perming.
When you leave your hair unprotected while under the sun, ultraviolet light can damage it, in the same way that bleach can. Sun exposure not only lightens your hair, it also weakens your hair and dries it out. Once hair is weakened, it splits open and breaks off.
You can damage your hair in several ways by treating it roughly, such as by dry brushing, rough shampooing, rough towel drying, or wrapping a rubber band too tightly around it. Brushing hair frequently or roughly will wear out anyone's hair, but for our very curly strands, the damage can be intense.
In addition, brushing through thick hair, especially when it's dry, requires a certain amount of force. It takes muscle to pull a brush through an expanded net of twists and curls. The force that you use wears away your cuticles and, worse, stretches your hair, weakening its fiber, often well past the breaking point.
Piling your hair on top of your head and rubbing shampoo vigorously into it or roughly grinding the towel into wet hair to dry it will not only rough up your cuticles, but is the express route to matting your hair. Putting hair bands on your hair too tightly will twist and rip the cuticles from your hair. Once the cuticle is gone, the cortex doesn't stand a chance. It might not seem like such a big deal to roughly yank your comb through your hair this one time or to use scorching heat on your hair just this once. But we rarely ever do anything once in the life span of our hair.
If you tend to yank your comb through your hair when you comb it or rub the towel into it after washing it, you probably do it almost every time. Now multiply this act by how often it happens during the life of each strand of hair. If your hair grows an average of, say, seven years, and you comb it roughly every week, this means that by the time your hair has reached maturity, it will have gone through 364 rough combings. Twice a week means 728 times. If you were to brush a piece of fabric roughly 364 to 728 times or more, it would wear away and look ragged very quickly. Keep this in mind for anything that you do to your hair. Whatever you do, your hair rarely has to endure it only one time.
It's usually the little things that don't seem so bad when you do them that add up. Due to this gradual damage, it will be nearly impossible for you to put your finger on why your hair looks dry and damaged or your ends broken and split. This process happens little by little, and you don't see it. Always keep this in mind, whatever you do to your hair or when you are deciding what to do to your hair: Multiply it by how many times it will happen in your hair's lifetime. If the procedure will destroy fabric, it will destroy your hair.
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