Protective Hair Styling Alternatives
When it comes to hair styling on an everyday basis, it is best to look for protective hair styles that do ultimately what the name suggest. Protecting the hair. When you are protecting your hair, this means really to protect your hair ends. Protective hair styling is protecting the hair from rubbing, splitting and being damaged by the tons of elements that the hair is exposed to. Being that the ends of your hair are the most oldest part of you hair and the most delicate and weaker part, it means that your hair ends need the most attention and more then likely babied. Keeping your hair away from cotton shirts, and ouchless rubberbands are also a great way to protect your hair. If you have shoulder length hair, it is extremely important for you to protect your ends without having it rubber against the your shoulders of your clothing which over a period of time can grab on and break your ends leading you to believe that your hair is not growing. Protective styling is really all about stress free styles to the hair. No tight rubberbands or tugging on the hair. Any style that is of low manipulation to the hair and protects the ends is considered a protective hair style.
Some protective hair styling alternatives are:
-Twist
-Boxbraids
-Braidouts
-Wigs and weaves (if it is a sew in or lacefront and it is done by a professional)
-Twistouts
-Flattwists
-Cornrolls
-Braids
-Air Dry Rollerset
These styles are all styles that entertain little to no manipulation of the hair, which in turn helps to protect the hair and retain length.