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Poll Question: Do You Trim Your Own Split Ends Or Let Your Hairdresser Do The Deed?
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    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



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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.

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I voted "What split ends?". On the average I find maybe one per week. Off they go, snip snip!
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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.  :-)

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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
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Originally posted by AnaisSatin 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.



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Hi Anais,

Thank you soooooooo much for the helpful hints.

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

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote cmesweet Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2005 at 8:06pm
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.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AnaisSatin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2005 at 6:29pm
That's so funny! Hm... post it notes.
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I trim my own splits (individual strands) and I do my own regular trims using Feye's self trimming methods.
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I not only trim my ends, but do all of my trims because no stylist ever listens to me!  

I've been saving a fortune cutting and coloring at home for eons.  I also find it most convenient because I can do it whenever I choose.

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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).

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Vote #1 for letting my hairdresser do it. 
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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.
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Originally posted by loquacious loquacious wrote:

Vote #1 for letting my hairdresser do it. 


Do you have a hairdresser who is willing to remove only the split ends, or are
you saying that you get a trim or cut when you have splits?
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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

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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!
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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.
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hehe thank god i have short hair, the split ends are cut off evry month before they even start to formed

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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?
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