Trends Hairstyles

We all want to know how to grow hair. This article can help women of all races but is particularly helpful in African American women hoping to achieve long hair. If you are wanting to achieve long healthy hair, it is important to minimize the amount of heat you put on your hair. This means less drying your hair with a blow dryer, curling hair with a curling iron, and using flat irons such as the chi. You can learn how to curl hair without using damaging products on your hair. These hairstyles are called low manipulation and will give you a nice curly hairstyle. Some of these low manipulation hairstyles include, twists hairstyles, braids, roller sets, curlformers etc.

Low manipulation means that you limit the amount of manipulation you do to your hair. Your hairstyles should take no more than 20 minutes to achieve when you are getting ready for the day. Low manipulation also means that you wont have to touch or comb your hair because the style is already set.

This helps your hair grow because the more you manipulate your hair; the more chances you have to experience breakage. Breakage occurs when you do hairstyles that require a lot of manipulation such as flat ironing or any other strait hairstyle that needs to be combed often.

In the African American community, hair breakage is the main cause of short hair. Many black women think their hair doesn't grow but that just isn't the truth. If our hair did not grow then we wouldn't need to apply relaxers to our new growth. We also wouldn't need to do touch-ups with hair color. The idea that black women's hair doesn't grow is a myth. Breakage is what makes our hair appear to not be growing. This is the exact reason why we need to do low manipulation hairstyles. African American hair needs to be babied. Our hair is fragile and requires tender care.

Another way to prevent breakage to our hair is to do protective styles. Protective styles are hairstyles that keep your hair off of you shoulders and your ends tucked away. Buns are great examples of protective hairstyles. The ends of all hair is very fragile because it is the oldest part of your hair (it has been there the longest), therefore we have to protect our ends to prevent breakage.

The links posted will show you how to achieve four easy hairstyles for long or short hair. These hairstyles are all low manipulation hairstyles but if you search through the channel you will find an example of a protective style.