Should I cut my ends on natural hair?
Trimming is essential to healthy natural hair and length retention. Here’s why: Split ends naturally start developing a couple months after every trim.
How often should I trim my natural hair ends?
Scheduling a trim every three to four months will help maintain the shape of your style and remove naturally splitting ends. Hair grows about 1/4 to 1/2 inch a month. If ends are clipped regularly, you will only remove about 1/4 inch or less which will leave you with noticeable growth and length retention.
Is it good to trim tips of hair?
And the answer is: no! Regularly cutting the ends of your hair does not make it grow faster. However, it does make your hair seem thicker, as well as healthier and shinier.
Can you trim ends on dirty hair?
Only Cut Your Hair When It’s Dry Cutting wet hair may seem like the normal approach, but trimming it while it’s damp or wet can lead to frayed ends.
How often should you clip your ends?
Unless you are growing your hair longer, with medium and long hairstyles you should be getting a trim every 6-8 weeks to maintain its length and style. If you are aiming for Rapunzel long locks, you can wait a bit longer to let your hair grow out, getting a trim every 8-10 weeks to help prevent damage from split ends.
Why should you trim your ends?
Trimming your hair actually encourages hair growth. It may sound counter-intuitive, but the appearance of broken and split-ends not only damages the look and feel of your hair, but it also contributes to the appearance of shorter hair and thinner ends. Freshly cut ends also help to de-tangle your hair!
Should I trim my hair wet or dry?
For most textures, Tripodi actually recommends trimming hair while it’s slightly damp. “If it’s towel-dried and a lot of moisture is taken out of the hair, but you can still see its natural texture, that’s a generally good time to cut it,” she explains.
Should you cut 4C hair wet or dry?
It is advisable to trim your 4C hair when dry but you can also trim your 4C natural hair wet this will help you see the split end better, but beware trimming 4c hair wet can cause you to lose more length than usual, so trim carefully!