This Is Why Your Natural Hair Is Breaking & How To Stop It | Grow Long Hair Fast #Naturalhair

In this video we're going to be talking about breakage possible courses, how to stop it and, of course, how to prevent water breakage in the future. So if you want to see all of that, then most definitely keep on watching. Hi loves welcome back to my channel. Where are you and if you see me for the first time girl, where have you been, i make natural hair videos helping us do your hair journey. I also make vlogs and other beautiful things. One of the major questions i get all the time is: knowing: how do i stop breakage? My hair breaks a lot. How do i stop it? First off this is a very realistic channel. There is no stopping breakage, because we are always going to manipulate our hair when we are detangling, styling or even just wearing our hair out the resistance that our hair is going to break. However, what we can do is to make sure we minimize the weight. After our hair breaks, i also want to apologize for my absence here, and i also got a rematch because she complained about my audio. So let's get right into the video, but before we do that, what does it mean while your hair is breaking? It simply means that your hair is actually breaking along the shaft, instead of it falling off as a shed hair. So the difference between breakage and shed hair is that sheer hair has a bulb that is white and then breakage. Just is your hair that broke anywhere along the shaft of your hair, so that is what it means when your hair is breaking, because some people always mistake shed hair as breakage under normal circumstances. That is when you are not sick or your diet, or something is actually wrong internally. That will make you to shed more hair, but an average human being gets about 100 hair a day, so that is completely normal. When you see shed hair during your wash day, you can do a lot of things to minimize it, but we are not going to be focusing on that, but that breakage is one of the major reasons. We are not able to retain length because our hair is constantly growing, but due to breakage, we are not able to retain the lead. There are four major causes of breakage and we are going to be discussing them. This includes physical manipulation, dryness moisture protein overload and then color related type of breakage. Let'S get into them going for the major course of breakage, which is physical manipulation. I always have this mantra that works for me, the more you touch, your hair, the more crunchy breakage things. I said in my previous video of how i do my hair. You should definitely check out that if you don't check it out so the more we touch our hair, whether we're styling it whether we are detangling we're doing anything at all to the hair, the more prone it is breakage. But then our hair is also different. If you have fine thin strands, your hair is more prone to breakage than someone that has the core strength. I'M not saying high density, i'm saying fine trans. That means that your strengths are really really skinny. It doesn't have lots of keratin, so it's very very prone to breakage compared to someone that has lots of keratin in their individual hair strands. So when you have fine strands - and you manipulate your hair as much as someone with thick strands you're going to break your hair more because your hair is more resilient to breakage compared to yours. So that is also a major cause of breakage that we need to put into consideration another major form of breakage, while manipulating our hair is detangling. I feel like most times when we complain about breakage is during the detangling time, if you're not detangling, your hair properly, which is starting from the ends of your hair using edit angular. I always think this, like music in my songs, never detangle your hair with just water. It is not enough if you want to give your hair a very high chance of not breaking at all. You want to actually use something with sleeve, like aloe vera gel at least conditioners, which are very, very easy to get by. You could get like further conditioner. That has a very good sleep and you just usually don't grow your hair, so never ever detangle your hair. Without a sleep agent, then you want to start at the end of your hair, using your fingers on knots. All the knots that you have there before you actually going with a detangling brush now detangling brushes can make on my hair. If you are not your thing, i think that something works for you then stick to it. But if you want to use a brush because it works for you, then you should actually go ahead and use the brush disregard. Any question telling you that all detangling brushes break more hair than finger detangling just do whatever works for your hair honestly. Another thing that i've noticed that works for me as someone that has my hair is not spraying lots of water or making my hair soaking wet and i'm detangling just a little bit of water, getting my hair damp and then using the detangler works better and my Hair doesn't break as often because i noticed that the water kind of weighs my hair down compared to when i just have it damp and then the products detangle, my hair. So you might want to consider that when you're detangling, your hair corporate under this category is wrong. Hairstyles, for example, if you're always wearing wash and gold, your hair is going to break more than the person that wears this often because your ends are exposed. Your hair is in its trunking state before it's going to tangle up more, it's going to just become more fragile. So, if you're trying to limit breakage when it comes to your natural hair, you want to make sure that your hair, and especially your inks, are really protected. For example, you could wash and go once a month, but not something you can do every day, especially if you don't know how to protect your hair while using wash and glue, and then you just sleep without your bonnet. You got your satin pillow. Of course, your hair is going to match up, especially at the back, and i notice that we natural scissors have zero patience when it comes to the back and the center of our head, because our hands happening at that moment. So you have to be very, very careful. The fifth one in this category is the breakage that we get on wash days. So basically, when you wash your hair, just like that, the whole washing movement can easily lead to your hair, even though the more so it's best to wash the hair in twists or at least sections. I always wash my hair and twist i've been doing that for over two years now, going to three years actually and then just few times i wash my hair in sections when i'm doing like a clay, detox or just don't want to wash my hair in twists. Another technique that i use is when trying to get my hair wet during the time, i'm not washing any sections. I always try to run the shower towards the end of my head first to reduce the shrinkage as to when you run it from your roots. So you just kind of use the water to stretch it out and then go towards your roots. Make sure you saturate your hair properly. Then you want to wash from the roots you might as well hold the hair like this and then wash the roots and just kind of use. This shampoo to run it down. Also, don't try to detangle your hair using shampoos, because some of the shampoos don't have sleep and in as much as it might be aesthetically pleasing to watch it on youtube or instagram. It might not be the same for your hair and that will increase your chances of breakage, so you can take class shampoos for detangling your hair, when you have also previously detangled detangling before washing the hair, also helps to reduce breakage during wash days. For example, i love to determine before i wash my hair, because it just helps to make the whole washing process very, very easy. I just go in with my aloe vera gel or purple or conditioner anyone that i feel like using or that particular wash day. Then the next thing i do is to put each section of hair i've detangled into twist and then rinse it off and go in with a shampoo and deep condition. Is you unravel your sweets and then you deep condition your finger detangling a beat, and then you twist it back, and that is in my washes over apart from the moisturizing routine. Of course, that means you are using one stone to cure two breads you're detangling your hair and then you're doing people at the same time. So this process is going to help you to limit the amount of hair that you're going to break because you've already designed with your hair first with regards to when you do not detangle your hair. For example, i just took down this protective cell and i then go straight to the shower wash it. The knots are going to even knot up more because then my hair becomes curly and i did not a normal stretch. They now call it and it makes it harder to detangle. Let'S just be honest, most of us don't have the patience to start detangling, our hair one after the other. So it's probably better you just detangle it before you wash your hair so generally manipulating our hair is one of the major reasons why we break our hair. So you want to limit the amount of times that you manipulate your head in a month to be able to reduce the amount of breakage you experience in a moment. You want to make sure that your hair is protected most of the time and if you want to wear your hair out, that's completely fine, but make sure you also protect your hair. At the same time, by sleeping with your bonnet everyday manipulations are trying to moisturize the hair restyling. The hair should really be avoided, so we can really give our hair the best chance of not breaking at all yeah, so you might want to get a better moisturizing routine. That will last you for a few days before you actually moisturize your hair or put your hair in low, manipulative hairstyles such as low bones high bones, not a puff piece, not a puff at all, always burns, because your ends are kind of protected. That way. The second thing in the category of causes of breakage is actually dryness. Yes, our hair is very very prone to breakage when it's dry, because obviously our hair is very coily. This means that it is more elastic when it is in its elastic form. When i talk about dryness in this particular instance, i'm not talking about dryness when you just finish: moisturizing your hair and your hair is not damp and also damp. Hair is not equal to moisturizer. Your hair can be hydrated, but no moisturize. So we need to get that point straight before we continue this video, i'm going to give an example of dry hair that is caused by a very bad moisturizing routine, say i just finished washing my hair and then i skipped leaving conditioner and i just slap my Hair with a bunch of water mix, of course, at that moment it's going to be very soft, going to be very sweet, very easy to tangle, but then, as soon as the water dries probably the next day, my hair becomes oily because there is nothing still trapping The moisture in my hair, there is nothing for me, humectant or even any humectant at all, so you can see that this is a bad moisturizing routine and it's going to leave your hair dry the next day, maybe the same day, if you have high porosity hair, Who knows most of us are gentle with our hair when detangling, but because our hair is really dry, it kind of keeps snapping another cause of breakage during dryness is trying to manipulate your hair when it's right. This is going to cause even more breakage trying to style. You obviously start hearing the snapping and the snagging sound, meaning that oh, the hair is trying to tell you you have to put some moisture in, so your hair can easily easily just separate itself when you're, trying to part or when you're just trying to do your Cornrows, so to stop dryness. Obviously that is the simplest thing to fix. Just get a very good moisturizing routine. My moisturizing routine is very, very simple and efficient. At the same time, i just use my leave-in conditioner, botanical gel and then a styling cream, because styling creams contain water and even more on film forming human tanks. I wonderful so i use that to seal, and then i put my hair into swiss. Also the styling cream helps to prevent freeze. So my streets stay juicy for a longer time. You can check my moisturizing routine down below and i'm sure you're gon na love it. So the third culprit in this category is protein or moisture overload. I know we don't talk about this often because we never really think that protein that is supposed to strengthen our hair, all moisture that is supposed to soften the hair actually starts breaking the hair. So basically, our hair is always balanced with protein and moisture. That'S when the hair is elastic. The colds are popping everything good, but then, when you have too much protein in your hair and that means you're lacking moisture right and when you have moisture overload, that means you are lacking a little bit of protein and we need to get to balance. So when you have protein overload, you can't see the signs where your hair becomes strong, like your hair is just strong. It might not hold calls as much as it does before, and it snaps a lot. Your hair is going to feel strong like to say bread yeah. You know how to say we can easily break compared to when the bread is just fresh and kind of is elastic. Then moisture overload is when your hair feels like mushy yeah. You get that mushy feeling that your hair is not strong and then it just kind of is obviously too soft compared to how it normally is, and of course it just acts to break often if you're experiencing any of this, you might want to remove any product That is causing, if you're using rice water, because right so that gave me protein overall, you might want to stop it and then use a clarifying shampoo and follow up with a moisturizing deep conditioner for at least two wash days to get moisture back into your hair And you want to remove products that have protein in them in your routine, for example, leaving conditioners and styling creams that have protein. You can see protein as wheat, protein um keratin, just look for them in the ingredients and you have to let them go for you to fix protein overload to fix. Moisture overload is actually the other way around. You want to actually clarify your hair to get the excess moisture out of your hair as much as possible. They want to introduce protein products into your hair care routine. Do a protein treatment, probably some that is strong depending on your porosity. If you have hyperoxide, then i advise you to go for your strong protein treatments like the aphro g, polar plex and all that strong protein treatment, but the regular living conditioners actually has protein in them. So you want to introduce them back into your hair, regimen and probably one or two wash days in one month and then see how the breakage is going to reduce. So if you do this correctly, your hair is going to stop breaking as much as it was breaking before. Also, when you try to strengthen your hair all the time it is going to lead to protein overload when you are using leave-in conditioners that have protein or you have protein sensitive hair, which is actually very much debatable. But then, if you already have like thick strands that has lots of keratin in them, meaning that the protein content of your strand is high, and then you keep using lots of protein treatment trying to stress in the hair that is really strong. You will get protein overload very very quickly, so it's very important to know the right information about your hair know the right information about the product and the techniques and the routine that you're using. So you can reduce breakage on your own. So the last category we have here is breakage cost by product. So in this category there are products like harmful products, chemical processing, such as dyes, for example, if there's a product that is harmful that contains like bad chemicals and the company was being shady about the ingredients, and you put it on your hair. That could literally start breaking off your hair, and that is not your fault. Okay, then, what you have to do is to discontinue using this product and if you can press charges against these companies, please do because you know our hair takes a lot of time and effort to take care of, and then this product that you bought for twenty Dollars just literally mild your seven years of work, i mean you should press charges, i would press charges if i can i'm just taking but yeah. You guys get my point and also when you die or you bleach your hair. Your hair is going to break. Often let me explain this process. For example, you have low porosity hair. That means your hair absorbs water really slowly. But what happens when you apply dye on your hair? Is that it kind of processes, your hair to some extent, and then it turns your low porosity hair to high porosity hair? That means your hair is going to get dry faster. Remember. We said that dryness is also another cause of breakage. Most of your strengths are damaged some excess, so it needs extra protein for you to strengthen it. So if you are not taking care of your hair after processing, it you're going to experience a very, very huge amount of breakage that i know have caused some people to actually cut off their hair and say: oh, i cannot do so. If you want to dye your hair, you want to prepare your mind to take care of your hair time straight of how you are already taking care of it. So if you're, a lazy natural, do nothing to your hair, please i'll! Advise you not to dye your hair, because you might really get tired of your hair, but it will break. It will be extremely dry, so you need to constantly moisturize it and then do lots of protein treatment to reduce the amount of breakage you're going to experience. But i promise you with time it gets better. I know lots of people that have colored hair. Their hair is completely healthy. They experience the normal amount of breakage, so it's actually cool. If you want to dye your hair but be ready to put in the work. So the last one in this category is heat processing, your hair. Whenever you blow dry your hair with heat, i don't know, the hair is just going to break. It'S not going to break immediately but like constant use of heat can actually lead to damage, especially if you're not using his protectant, but even if you're using his protectants and you you blow dry your hair. Every week you're going, your hair is going to break more than depressing that doesn't blow dry their hair everywhere. So you should know this when you use heat on your hair same thing with flat ironing. Now that you know the major causes of breakage. The only thing you can do to reduce breakage is to actively be conscious of the causes of breakage and try as much as you can to avoid them. Like i mentioned in the beginning of this video, as long as we are touching our hair, our hair is going to always break, but the rate at which we break is completely dependent on us. The technique we use the products we use the paper. We allow to touch our hair because, if you're going to a bad stylist, the person is going to constantly keep breaking your hair. No matter. If you follow all these tips and then allow someone else that doesn't have a good knowledge of not trying to handle your hair, your hair is constantly going to be breaking and breakage is damaged to hair, to some extent summarize this video. In a nutshell, if you want to reduce breakage in your natural hair, that means you need to protect your hair as much as possible. Use your deep conditioners to strengthen your hair, because when we are manipulating our hair, one thing that happens that we are not aware of is that we are causing little amounts of breakage to the hair, so deep conditioning the hair regularly after washing your hair, helps to Repair those damages, especially if you're, using balancing deep conditioners. That means that particular deep conditioner contains protein and it contains moisturizing ingredients so make sure you always do that. Every time you wash your hair, so you can just easily maintain the protein and moisture balancing your hair. That'S it guys. I really hope you enjoyed this video and if you did don't forget to give me a thumbs up subscribe to my channel for more and i'll see you guys in my next one bye,