Hair Myths and Hair Advice to Avoid

We've all heard the age old, sage advice about hair that's been passed down from generation to generation. But a lot of that old advice is just a myth. In fact, some of those chestnuts of wisdom are downright damaging to your hair. Since it can be hard to determine fact from fiction when it comes to your beautiful hair, here are few pieces of advice that you should avoid altogether. Protect your tresses and avoid these six hair myths.

Pulling your hair while its wet makes it grow faster . This is a myth! It certainly may appear that pulling and tugging on your hair while it is wet makes it longer, but not because the hair is growing. Tugging on wet hair really just stretches out your hair, making it thinner, weaker, and brittle to the point that it will likely break off. Hair breakage will make your hair even shorter than it was before! So avoid tugging on your wet hair.

Brushing your hair for 100 strokes will make it grow longer. Well, not really. Thoroughly brushing your hair every day will help spread oils throughout the hair shaft, and this is good for your hair. But all that brushing must be done gently. Any harshness could cause the hair to break right off. And never, ever brush your hair when it is wet unless you want to ruin it. Only use a wide-tooth comb on wet hair.

Burning the ends of your hair fuses split ends back together. The thought of taking a lighter to the tips of my hair scares me to death! Don't ever try to burn the ends of your hair. You're likely to burn yourself. Any hair products that you are wearing could send your entire head of hair up in flame. In truth, all it does is burn off the split ends, which may look better, but it is extremely dangerous so don't even think of trying it. See your stylist for a good trim, instead.

Cutting your hair makes it grow faster . It sounds like a nice idea if it were true. The reality is that cutting your hair only makes it shorter, it doesn't make it grow faster. However, regular rims will prevent split ends. Split ends cause breakage, which makes your hair to appear to stop growing. So by cutting your hair regularly it may seem to grow faster because you are preventing the breakage that makes it short.

You should get your hair cut before a perm service, because if you get it cut after you "cut all the perm off." I understand the fear of someone spending a lot of time and money on a perm service. They are worried that all that work will get swept up in the dust pan after their hair has been cut. But the truth is that the hair is permed from the root to the tip, so cutting off the hair after it's been permed will just cut off the ends of the hair that you would have trimmed before hand. You won't lose any perm, but you may lose those dry, fried, frizzy ends that can come along with a perm service. It is actually healthier for your hair to get the trim after the perm, and not the other way around.

If you can't see the old hair hair color you once applied to your hair then it must not be there anymore . This is one of my favorite myths! Sometimes, a woman will have their long hair lightened, and a few months later decide to go back to their natural color. The woman doesn't realize that her hair is still colored, and assumes that her hair color has all grown out. The truth is, that hair grows about half an inch per month. It would take several years for hair color on long hair to be completely grown out, but because the client can no longer see the difference in color she just assumes it has been long enough for her color to have grown out. It may sound like splitting hairs, but is important information to know should the client have another color or chemical service performed.

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