What Are Protective Hairstyles?

How do protective hairstyles help your hair grow?

Are you looking for a way to keep your hair healthier and help it grow longer? If you haven’t already, think about trying protective styles.

A protective hairstyle guards your hair ends and keeps them from getting damaged.

Let’s talk about how these types of hairstyles keep your hair healthy and growing and what kinds of styles are protective.

How Protective Hairstyles Make Your Hair Healthy

Have you ever been frustrated by having to lotion your hands a hundred times a day because your skin keeps drying out?

If you leave your hair ends exposed with no protection from the air the same thing will happen to them, leading to serious dryness, brittleness and split ends.

Wearing protective styles keeps your ends healthy by doing certain things.

They keep your ends safe from sun, wind and friction.
Locks in moisture.
Prevents split ends and breakage.
Puts less stress on your hair from combing and brushing.

How Protective Hairstyles Help Your Hair Grow

Have you ever noticed little pieces of hair all over your shoulders and wondered why it happens?

Air dries your ends out and makes them thin and weak.
Friction between your hair and your clothes makes it even worse.
Wearing your hair down gets it caught in your jewelry, causing even more breakage.

Not touching your hair for hours, days and weeks at a time (depending on the style you choose) keeps your ends intact.

I’m sure you know that the real key to longer hair is keeping your ends healthy while your roots produce growth.

Protective styles reduce split ends and damage so your hair doesn’t break off as fast as the roots grow. Over time this can add up to a lot of length (as much as your growth cycle allows).

The Different Types Of Protective Hairstyles

Any style that tucks your ends away is protective. There are lots of options to try.

Most of these hairstyles are really basic, but they don't have to be boring. Use accessories like jeweled clips, chopsticks, head bands and scarves to add more style.

You might not like the idea of wearing your hair up or hidden away, but the health and length benefits are more than worth it. If you’re anything like me you’ll love it because the updo styles make your neck look longer.

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BWBC Tip: Wearing protective styles helps reduce acne because they keep your hair off your face.

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