Cutting Your Long Hair Does Not Have to Be a Painful Process, How do you know how often you should be cutting your hair? It can depend on things such as chemical treatment, hair thickness, and health of your hair, as well as the style you have. It’s easy enough to figure out how often you need to cut your hair, without the need to pull your own hair out in frustration.

Cutting Your Long Hair Does Not Have to Be a Painful Process

Just remember these simple facts below and take the handy advice that comes along with them..The average person’s hair grows at a rate of a half of an inch per month, this is just the average, some people will have hair that grows much faster and some that grow hair much slower.

If you have long hair then you probably want to keep it long. It’s still important to get regular trimmings so that you can remove any split ends. Long hair is old hair, the hair at the vary ends is the oldest of all. With this age comes brittleness, breakage, and even split ends. Split ends, hair breakage, and a thin appearance can be the biggest enemy of long hair.

Coloring and high lighting your hair is further damaging to what is already an old shaft of hair. The greatest amount of damage is naturally being closer towards the ends of the hair. If you get your long hair trimmed, you will have shiner hair. Getting it trimmed removes all the split ends and prevents them from growing long and interfering with more hair growth.

You should get your hair trimmed around eight weeks to twelve weeks, depending on how much breakage you are experiencing and how much coloring you do to your hair. Relaxing and perms are the greatest damagers of fine healthy hair.

Always make sure that you are communicating with your hairstylist. This makes sure that you ONLY get a trim, many a times a person has had the horror of watching large chunks of their own hair fall to the floor before their very eyes. Do not let this happen, the best way is to physically show with your own hair, how much you would like cut off at the maximum.

If you want your hair to stay the relatively same length, within reason, then you should just get the very tips cut off. this may seem as if it is actually counter productive to the cause of long hair, remembering that your hair grows half an inch in a month’s time and grows usually faster than you can cut it at this small trim rate.