QuoteReplyTopic: Trimming dilemma Posted: September 08 2005 at 5:16am
Hey! I’m new around here… I’ve been reading your forum and
well I would be glad if you can help me out a bit… I have straight black hair
reaching up to my hip bone my problem is that i have split ends not the classic
type of lateral split but uneven thickness towards the end of my hair resulting
in slight frizziness. If I wanted to get rid of all the damage from my hair I would
have to cut off a lot of length… i’ve heard that splits move up the hair shaft
and that they can result in hairfall… so could someone please tell me what I should
do?? thnx
You can get yourself some decent scissors, preferrably for hair.
Then divide your hair into sections.
Go through your hair one section at a time and snip off any splits that
you see. You take the individual strand that has a split end and cut
that hair just a tiny bit above where the split is.
Continue doing that section of hair until you have what seems to be
most of them done. Don't let this overwhelm you. You don't have to do
your whole head at one time. By sectioning your hair you can go back
later and resection and start where you left off.
I have this also written out as an article here.
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/LHC/Trim.html
and here's one about scissors
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/LHC/Scissors.html
thankyou
for your help... but i was just wondering wouldn't cutting individual
splits cause all the hair to be of different lengths... i don't mean to
be rude i'm just curious
If you get at those splits before they start to travel you'll only be
slightly different lengths. That's a lot easier to grow out than
letting them travel. Plus if you get rid of the splits your hair will
lay a bit flatter and not rub other hairs as much which causes other
hairs to split.
This is completely up to you and I don't think you were being rude
The fact is the split is on those hairs. Those hairs are essentially
already that short (the point where the split is). They just happen to
have some hair below the split. There's no way to fix the hair below
the split on that strand. You can either leave it alone or snip above
the split. It only matters what you are comfortable with doing.
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No need to lurk or be shy, jump right in and feel free to talk (or ask
questions) about your hair all you want. Doing so is most
certainly not rude.
I believe that it is better to trim split ends even if some strands may
be shorter than others. No head of hair is perfect. As the
ends of our hair strands get longer and thus older, they get more
fragile and susceptible to splitting. Increasing numbers of
splits on longer hair are not uncommon.
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