In short! NO! Why does your sister think her hair is damaged? What does she see or feel that makes her believe her hair is damaged if she's never done a chemical service to her hair? If hair is snarly or knotty even after conditioning the hair typically the cuticle layer is raised or damaged and that's when problems such as dryness and tangles begin. That's when the hair looses moisture and breakage often occurs. This can be resolved easily however.

Have a stylist properly evaluate her hair in a salon. I see women day in, day out at the salon come in and they always think their hair is damaged. 99% of the time that's usually not the case.

It could be the shampoo she's using...commercial stuff like Pantene, Thermasilk, Pert, Suave and stuff like that is total junk. You might as well wash  your hair with Tide Laundry Detergent! Oh and 2 in 1 shampoo's + conditioner are a waste of money too. Get some good professional products....perhaps a nice moisturizing shampoo and a conditioner and once a week perhaps a nice deep conditioning treatment for your sister's hair. I bet in several weeks time it will look healthier and feel better. Also keep up on trims....typically every 6-10 weeks just to keep it neat looking and healthy.

Most professional color lines are gentle enuff on the hair that as long as the stylist knows what they are doing chemical color services are typically safe. Aftercare is just as important...use shampoos safe for color treated hair and conditioners to put the moisture back into the hair strands that the chemical service removed.

G'luck

caramel wrote: she thinks it's damaged b/c it falls out a lot, and she always finds split ends even right after a trim.. she's been to several salons to see whether the split ends after trimming are the stylist's fault, but i guess not.. i think her hair is just fine, but she thinks it's damaged, she always does. i told her what u said about shampoos as well. anyway, guess she has no choice but to go chemical! thanks

Hair falls out of a healthy person's head on a daily basis the average person looses 80 - 100 strands of hair per day. So to see hair in the shower basin is normal. Excessive hair loss could be due to poor nutrition....many vegans or vegetarians who abstain from meats high in protein and don't supplement their protein intake with something like Tofu can suffer excessive hair loss at times during their lives.

Hair goes through a 3 phase cycle....

Anagen - Growing - 85% - 90%

Catagen - Regression or Transistional stage - 1%-2%

Telogen - Resting Phase or Shedding Stage - 10% - 14%

so shedding of some hair is a normal daily occurence. Hope that helps you to better understand.

As for finding split ends even right after a trim it's possible that if she gets her hair layered she is noticing different lengths in the cut and thinking her ends are split that way. Typically split ends take weeks to form and having split ends right after a trim unless they didn't cut it even is very unlikely.

G'luck