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5 ways to avoid your ponytail damaging your hair

1. Bad accessories

Hair ties are the biggest villains for your hair. They not only stimulate the fall by the pressure that they do, but also they facilitate much of the breakage of the wires that cause frizzed hair and split ends. Bet on Scrunches, hair pins and barrettes.

2. Never hold wet hair

When your hair is wet, the fibers that make up the yarn are more flexible and elastic. This causes them to become brittle and more vulnerable and exposed to the risk of friction, which can also lead to falling and creeping yarn.

3. Do not hold too tight

By overextending your hair either by stretching the strands backwards or forwards as much as by tying them tightly around the elastic, you also expose your hair to the risk of damage and detachment from the follicle.

4. Sleep with loose wires

Not tying your hair back to sleep is already an efficient way to avoid any kind of trauma and tension in the wires, in a time when you do not need (or should) worry about them. Just as your body needs to relax, so does your hair.

5. Change hairstyles

Now if, while awake, you can not avoid tying your hair, try to vary the frequency as you tie it – varying not only the accessories but also the hairstyle so you do not always tie your hair to the same side, making the simple habit more traumatic.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by filipa .