Can Damaged Hair Be Repaired?
Hair Damage and What You Can Do About It
I hear this question a lot from people who have hair that has been chemically damaged or is suffering from heat damage from a curling iron, flat iron, or blow dryer. Damaged hair is missing critical properties and those properties are protein bonds and cuticle layers. Once those parts are gone, they are gone. When it comes to “repairing” hair damage, you’re actually patching up those missing protein parts but it’s only temporary. Think of it as “damaged hair glue”. Products designed for hair damage are made to help prevent further damage, hair breakage and split ends but the damage is still there and needs to be handled carefully.
Split Ends
Hair will split when it is severely damaged and then you still start to suffer from breakage. The best route to take will be to treat the hair with a product for damage in an attempt to prolong the strands. Again, this will only last temporarily so your next concern will be to get rid of the damaged parts. You can do this by trimming little by little until you rid yourself of the damage.
Afraid of trimming?
Damaged hair can continue to grow if handled extremely carefully and can appear healthy when it is not. However, you can end up spending a lot of time and effort to maintain just the appearance of healthy hair. If you’re tired of having bits of hair on your shirt, or continuously see broken pieces of hair in your bathroom sink, it may be worth it to just rid yourself of the broken and split ends.
Trimming Split Ends
In the long run, this will not only make your look better it will also make it feel better. Some people are ok with drastically cutting damaged hair and others are not. Set up a monthly or biweekly trimming schedule and figure out how much hair you will cut each time. Before you know it, you will have rid yourself of the dry, damaged hair and can move on with your life. Take notice that if you continue the hair care practices that caused the hair damage in the first place, your problems will start all over again.
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