Does this sound familiar? Split ends. Over processed. Excessive breakage. Fried dry hair. Any and all can result in a long string of bad hair days. Each produces tresses we don’t want. That no one wants. All require different hair repair strategies. Do you know what to do to remedy these four evil sisters that rob us of the hair we deserve?

To that end, let’s briefly look at split ends, breakage, damage from hot styling tools and over processed hair to see what can’t be done to make the most traumatized hair healthy again. Or how you might avoid the problems to start with.

Your Mission: Stop Split Ends

Destroying your hair’s protective cuticle with high heat leaves you with ends that are cracked and frayed. In no time the split travels up the hair shaft leaving you with badly damaged hair. There’s only one way out. Cut your losses by getting your hair cut above where the splits stop to restore it to health. While a light trim every six to eight weeks will keep it that way.

Your Mission: Minimize Breakage

Yes hair breaks. All the more so if your favorite styling option is a tightly pulled back pony tail. Or you fail to condition after every shower. Or you have no silicone based serums to keep your locks smooth and glossy. Any of which can leave you with hair that is frail and more likely to fracture. The whole idea here is to keep hair strong, your cuticles smooth and to not do dumb things that promote breakage. Got it?

Your Mission: Be Cautious With Heat

Excessive heat hurts hair. Styling tools exceeding 212 degrees F can cause the water inside your strands to boil. With no way out the steam rips at the hair. Leaving a tattered cuticle in its wake. Not a pretty picture. I’m not saying you need to banish hot styling tools. Just be sure to use heat protectants on your hair that can stand between it and the hot surfaces. It’s also unwise to blow dry hair that is sopping wet. And while you’re at it dial down the heat on those mega watt hair dryers to avoid fried strands.

Your Mission: Processing Properly

Coloring, straightening, perming all involve chemicals that can make hair porous, brittle and weak. And prone to frizz. No it’s not a permanent structural change. But chemicals can alter your hair. Which means you have to pamper processed hair. Bu deep conditioning with protein treatments to hydrate, strengthen and soften. And equally important by not subjecting your hair to such treatments any more often than every four months.

If can be a fast fall from shiny and sleek to a hair disaster. But you can save your traumatized tresses. Being smart with heat, getting regular trims, and avoiding doing dumb things to it, your hair can be revitalized. And sooner than you’d think too.

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