Protective Styling to Retain Length and Achieve Longer Hair

Us teens definitely have a love hate relationship with our hair, but in the end we all want beautiful healthy long hair. For African Americans in particular, we may find it a little harder to maintain our hair length due to the improper care of our hair strands, breakage, overly heat styling and other high manipulation styles. There are different ways that we can protect and maintain our hair to achieve longer hair.

Leave it Alone!

We all love those hairstyles that give us great hair days, but let’s be honest we put a lot of time and effort into them which results in using heat, styling tools such as combs and other styling tools to achieve these looks, but high manipulation can cause breakage because of the stress we are causing to the hair strands.

So How Can We Fix That?

With protective styling, it’s a great

way to ensure low manipulation with your hair, protective styling can be done on all different hair types, from the silkiest straight hair to the kinkiest curly hair.

For girls who want to use their own hair to protective style buns are great low manipulation style. From high messy buns to low and sleek buns this style is very versatile. This allows your ends to be protected without using heat and little styling tools. Always vary the placement of the bun and don’t make them too tight, so your hair won’t break off in a particular area, because of the tension your hair might receive. If you want to spice up this style, go for a cute headband or bows and pins to add your own twist.

For girls who would rather not deal with our hair at all and love using heat but don’t want to damage your natural hair, I got something for you too!

Weaves, wigs and other extensions can really be beneficial. With weaves, wigs, and other extensions you can use heat that allows you to wear some of your favorite styles without the worry of damaging your own hair. Braiding your hair underneath will allow you to have a complete break from your hair but don’t neglect your hair, use oils on your scalp to ensure when you do decide to take out your weaves and extensions that your hair is still strong and healthy.

This is just two of many different ways you can protect your use protective styles to help retain length. This with the help of a great hair care regimen. I can ensure you that you will see great results and be on your way to healthy beautiful hair that retains length.