Continually styling and chemically processing your hair will ultimately lead to damage. The best way to combat this damage is to make taking care of your hair a priority. By creating a routine known as a hair regimen, you can use products and specific techniques in order to nurse your hair back to health.

Stop doing what is damaging your hair

There are healthy ways to achieve every type of hairstyle. So you don’t have to abandon your favorite style in order to have healthy hair. Make a list of all the things you did to your hair in the last six months and how many times you did them. Excessive brushing, use of heat tools, and chemical processing all can damage your hair. Try to pinpoint which activities are damaging your hair. Once you figure out what is causing the damage, limit how much you manipulate your hair.

Try styles that allow you to take care of your real hair

Wearing weaves and braids for more than 6 to 8 weeks can cause a lot of damage to your hair. After 6 weeks remove your hair extensions and deeply cleanse your hair. Consider clip in extensions and wigs so you can remove my hair every night and decrease the damage to your hair.

Use products that work for your hair

Keeping up with the newest hair products can also be causing damage to your hair. Many products claim they can be used on any type of hair but that is simply no true. Every kind of hair has specific needs and one product can’t address all of them. Don’t use to many products, but focus on having a shampoo, conditioner, and a styling product.

Trim your ends

Damaged ends cannot be saved even though it is something we don’t want to believe. Trim your ends on a regular schedule, preferably every 2 to 3 months. The ends of your hair have been subjected to years of abuse, which is why they are dry and brittle. Spit ends can travel all the way up the hair shaft if you don’t trim them, this means that you will have to cut off an even larger amount of your hair. Trim your ends before the damage is done.

Wear your hair up more often

When your hair is down it rubs against your clothes causing damage that can lead to breakage. Buns, ponytails, and French braids are some of the easy styles you can use to keep your hair up.

Limit the use of heat tools

Since your hair is made of protein, every time you put heat on it your cooking it. You wouldn’t cook a steak every day or once a week, so don’t do it to your hair. Instead use curl formers or flexirods in order to create heat-less curls. For waves, braid your hair the night before and add moisturizer.