Do You Trim Your Own Split Ends?

Well...well.  I trim the ones I can see, which is very little of my hair.  It stinks having foot-long hair.

When a few strands come out of the back, I examine them to see if 1) they came out by the root (which means they're not breaking off - phew and 2) if they're split.  So far the back seems to be generally okay, though I'm going to ask a relative to dust my hair all over this weekend.

EDIT: Nice to see you posting again, Ms. Shelton.

Hi Anais,

Ahhhh, I was snipping this morning in the bright morning sunlight.  I didn't find too many but did find a few.  :-)  I am glad to hear that you are so diligent to catch them.  I try to devote some time each week but tend to forget and then will notice one and want to instantly snip it, regardless of where I am.  Which is sometimes inappropriate to snip.  :-)  Once I was in a restaurant and notice a long split end and was beside myself until I snipped it later.  And then sometimes they float back into the bulk of my hair and are gone forever.  :-)

AnaisSatin wrote: Hi Karen Heehee, even though I know they don't "spread", it makes me paranoid to leave one alone. Because if it doesn't get lost, I'll still forget to go back and find it! What to do when you find a split, and don't have scissors: (1) Tug on the hair gently to locate its root. (2) Make a note of that, or at least the general area on your head (3) Narrow it down at a more convenient time. (4) OFF IT GOES! Hope this helps some folks Anais

You could carry around those little tape flags and flag it for later.

It depends entirely on what I want at the time, but usually just the splits.  When I started going to Tony, I had very long hair (classic length apparently, by reading the long hair boards) that he just went crazy over.  When I cut it very short it seemed like he was grieving about it, in fact he refused for a while.  He's definitely very into long hair and encourages me to grow it longer everytime I go in.  If I go in just because of split ends, he removes the minimal amount of length and spends much time doing the search/destroy method.  Right now we've gotten to just below shoulder length, who knows where it will go from here.  I'm not attached to the concept of growing or cutting it (I liked it short, too) but the fact I am not a slave spending so much time fixing it as I did when it was shorter has kept my mindset of letting it grow a while longer. 

Interestingly enough, my girlfriend goes to him as well - she has super short hair and he never complained when she cut it short and doesn't try to push her to grow it.  On her, I love it the way it is so maybe he knows not to overstep those boundaries