QuoteReplyTopic: Do You Trim Your Own Split Ends? Posted: March 16 2005 at 4:24pm
To trim or not to trim...those pesky splits. What do you do about them? Do you ignore them and hope they will go away (they won't) or what do you do? Share your thoughts and vote in the new poll above.
Thanks in advance for sharing your clipping wisdoms.
Best wishes, Karen
Edited by Karen Shelton
That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger or drives you totally insane. :-)
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.
Edited by Supersugar
Make every day you have count, before the time comes for you to count every day you have.
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. :-)
That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger or drives you totally insane. :-)
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!
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.
Jeff was making a funny. I am famous for always putting little colored tape flags on all the magazines I am reading, so it makes sense that I could mark my split ends with them. I guess I would need to use red flags. :-)
Thanks again Anais.
Have a great weekend.
Karen
That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger or drives you totally insane. :-)
cmesweet
Members Profile
Send Private Message
Find Members Posts
Add to Buddy List
Elite Member
Joined: March 31 2004
Status: Offline
Points: 2085
I don't think i trim regularly, but I do trim my own hair. Lately, I have been inspecting my hair and i have not found any split ends, I try to keep my hair in protective styles and well moisturized (especially the ends). I saw a girls album who havent trimed in 5 years, so I been thinking about not trimming for a while.
In the course of the past 3 weeks, I've spent about a total of 12 hours
doing "search and destroy" on split-ends and it has made an appreciable
difference in the appearance of my hair. Finding split ends in my
hair is like shooting fish in a barrel. I've found some terrific
lighting conditions (early morning or late afternoon sunshine) which
helps spotlight those nasty splits, breaks, dots, and even knots (yes, some individual strands found their way into a knot).
loquacious
Members Profile
Send Private Message
Find Members Posts
Add to Buddy List
Newbie
Joined: March 28 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 29
If I notice one I snip it off and spend the next half an hour searching for more and snipping them. I didn't used to have splits but recently I've been getting more of them. I don't get splits in the back just in the front.
Type: 3c/4a Natural
Current Length: 6"
Goal: Healthy, tip of nose /neck/shoulder length hair.
BC: 02/08/06
eKatherine
Members Profile
Send Private Message
Find Members Posts
Add to Buddy List
Senior Member
Joined: August 06 2004
Status: Offline
Points: 1368
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
BrownEyez2
Members Profile
Send Private Message
Find Members Posts
Add to Buddy List
Junior Member
Joined: March 08 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 418
I do a "hunt and snip" for any/all pesky split ends. I try to catch them as soon as I can. For some reason I tend to get them more on the sides than anywhere else!?? I don't find any often, but when I do I try to get rid of them immediately!
~~LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE!~~
Pink
Members Profile
Send Private Message
Find Members Posts
Add to Buddy List
Newbie
Joined: March 29 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 3
I usually don't take the risk of cutting my own hair at all. So I chose I let my hairdresser do the deed at my regular trim session, because I don't get many split ends.
claribuzz
Members Profile
Send Private Message
Find Members Posts
Add to Buddy List
Member
Joined: November 28 2002
Location: Malaysia
Status: Offline
Points: 858
Wow...I'm so glad I found this topic...I sit with a scissor almost every night hunting for any split ends or "exploded" spots (which show as tiny little white "beads" on the hair shaft--they're caused when water boils in the hair (from heat appliances) which causes steam to form and then the steam basically "explodes" that spot on the hair when it tries to escape). I have so many of them because I went to the salon a couple of months ago and they used these boiling hot hair dryers to blow my hair straight after a Long-layer cut. My hair looked beautiful at the time but now it looks so .... split and beady. Due to this, I'm afraid to go back to the salon so my hair is becoming pretty uneven from the split end cutting I seem to be addicted to. I find myself so preoccupied with searching for ones to cut off that even when I'm not home I look for them and if I find one I break it off myself. I have to pin my hair back to avoid doing this ... what a shame!
Do you think I could walk into a salon and tell them to dry cut my hair so I don't have to worry about my hair being boiled again?
"What does 'friend' mean to you? A word so wrongfully abused." -Layne Staley (AiC)
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum