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The quality and haircare manufacture markets truthful galore things to us, but what's the existent lowdown connected what's really bully for our hair? I asked haircare experts successful the BuzzFeed Community to stock their insights. Along with immoderate proposal from Reddit (here and here), here's what experts said:
1. "Just bleaching your hairsbreadth astatine location successful general. 40 Volume 4 times successful a enactment connected achromatic container dye is NOT thing an amateur should do."
2. "Protein-based products. They're good to usage astir erstwhile a week, but if you usage them excessively often, you tin really enactment TOO MUCH macromolecule into your hairsbreadth strand, which causes hairsbreadth to consciousness weighed down, dull, and adjacent dried retired (ironic, I know). Look for moisturizing products that don't incorporate macromolecule astir of the time, and lone usage macromolecule if your hairsbreadth is truly successful request of a pick-me-up. For masks, a batch of bond-building masks and products are protein-based. Products similar K-18 are not though, truthful they're safer and much effective."
3. "Going to furniture with bedewed hair. Seems harmless, but the friction erstwhile you slumber tin origin breakage."
—Anonymous
4. "Oil earlier heat? That’s virtually frying hairsbreadth and utilizing temperatures connected your blistery tools that you would usage to navigator a chicken. And yeah, bleach is ever damaging, but if lifted debased and dilatory (no erstwhile color), harm tin beryllium minimal."
5. "Use vigor protectant, people. Seriously. It’s 2025."
—Anonymous
7. "Wearing your hairsbreadth successful the aforesaid benignant each day. Putting a ponytail holder oregon clip successful the aforesaid spot volition origin breakage implicit time. Switch it up from time to day!"
8. "Learn the quality betwixt dandruff vs. adust scalp. Both look akin and origin itching. A flaky scalp (loose tegument flakes) with a adust texture means you request to lavation your hairsbreadth little and usage hydrating products. Dandruff is really much similar a achromatic paste connected your scalp — it scrapes disconnected nether your nails — and it means you request to lavation your hairsbreadth much often to cleanse the scalp of the fungus and usage pharmaceutical dandruff treatment. People are abusing their scalps erstwhile they mistake 1 for the different and usage the incorrect products. People deliberation their scalp is excessively dry, truthful they halt washing, erstwhile really they person dandruff, the fungus, and are encouraging it by not washing their hairsbreadth enough. Or, they deliberation it's dandruff and usage harsh dandruff shampoos often and portion their mediocre scalps."
—Anonymous
9. "Rules of thumb: if it volition pain your skin, it volition pain your hair. If you would not usage it connected a toddler’s hair, bash not usage it connected your own. If you cannot pronounce the ingredients, powerfully reconsider."
—Anonymous
10. "There’s a quality betwixt nonrecreational and OTC products. Buy what you tin afford, but your $400 highlights are not going to look the aforesaid with a $5 shampoo."
11. "Sitting nether the prima with choky braids oregon ponytails. Wearing extensions with nary due haircare products. Pulling the hairline volition origin a receding hairline. Not giving immoderate benignant of nutrients to the hairsbreadth follicles volition harm the scalp, which successful the agelong tally creates hairsbreadth loss."
—Anonymous
12. "Retired hairstylist, and present are my champion tips:"
13. "Get hairsbreadth bedewed earlier you get successful the pool. When you're successful the pool, the chlorine h2o and chemicals soak into your hair. If your hairsbreadth is already wet, not a batch of the chlorine h2o tin soak up into your hair. Also, enactment a conditioner/leave-in conditioner connected your hairsbreadth earlier getting in. It volition overgarment your hairsbreadth and amended support it from chlorine h2o soaking into your hair. Use a clarifying shampoo erstwhile a week oregon each different week. It helps to get escaped of build-up successful the hairsbreadth and scalp. Or, if you're swimming that much, put successful a bully swimmer's cap."
14. "Use conditioner connected the ends of your hair. Never lather conditioner connected your scalp. If you person oily hair, this volition marque it mode worse."
15. "Don't enactment hairsbreadth dye implicit henna."
16. "I don't cognize if it’s been posted, but usage adust shampoo the nighttime before. Spray it in, but don’t brushwood it out. The adjacent morning, benignant arsenic usual. It works amended this mode by absorbing oils much effectively."
17. "When your stylist asks you what you person done to your hair, BE HONEST. We inquire due to the fact that we privation to support the integrity of your hair, not due to the fact that we privation to gripe. Also, going from acheronian to blonde successful 1 assignment is ne'er going to happen. EVER. And, it's going to beryllium expensive."
18. And lastly, "Use a heavy conditioner each present and then, get regular extremity trims, and effort not to enactment bedewed hairsbreadth successful a bun. Oh, and delight don't chopped your ain bangs."
Haircare professionals, bash you person much tips to share? Let america cognize successful the comments! Or, if you similar to enactment anonymous, you tin capable retired the signifier below.
Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.
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