Today we will talk about protective hairstyles and why braiding with human hair is a great option for that. Hair is naturally resilient and takes abuse after abuse and keeps on growing. Most of the time, but despite this, if we want healthy hair for years or to help repair damaged hair, we need to protect it from some of the daily damage we subject it to.
In this article, we will look at one of the most effective hairstyles for protecting human hair: braids. Not only are braids a great style choice, but they also offer improved protection for our hair. In this article, we will cover many of the reasons hair stylists recommend braids.
Protective Hairstyles: Why Braiding with Human Hair is a Great Option
Even if you already suffer from thinning, breakage, split ends, or any other hair problems, learning how braiding with bulk human hair is a way to protect your hair can help repair existing damage. This is on top of reducing new damage.
What is one of the leading causes of hair breakage?
Over-styling of human hair has been directly linked to hair breakage and overall damage. When we style our hair, it requires brushing and detangling. Which in itself is a by-product of how we wear our hair. By reducing the frequency of needing to restyle our hair, we can reduce the daily damage done to our hair.
By braiding your hair, you reduce the need for intensive daily styling sessions. When we maintain braided hair with extensions or just our own hair, we allow the hair a chance to rest. This can encourage new growth while reducing the breakage caused by detangling and brushing out knots that can so often form in our hair.
By keeping your hair in braids, you also reduce the friction that so often leads to split ends.
As the ends of our hair rub against our shoulders, clothing, bedding, and more, it causes friction damage at the ends of the hair. Much like what happens with a well-used broom. This will lead to more damage and shorter hair.
When we braid our human hair, we reduce the number of exposed hair ends that rub against things like clothes and bedding. In fact, the braid keeps the majority of the hair ends tucked into it, protecting human hair from the elements and odors.
With most of the individual hairs safely inside the braid, human hair has shown a greater moisture level. This leads to healthier hair and has been linked to reduced hair breakage.
Reduce the strain on your scalp to increase hair growth while protecting your hair from the roots.
A healthy scalp is one of the most important parts of hair health and growth. A dirty scalp full of residue from hair products, oil, and dirt can suffocate hair follicles, leading to hair loss, thinning hair, and other damage.
When you use a gentle exfoliating shampoo, you can cleanse residue and other contaminants from your scalp. The way human hair braids help with the cleansing of the scalp is that it exposes areas of the scalp with the parts used for the braids.
Moisture is one of the ways we fail our hair, and it is one that human hair braids can help with.
When we wear our hair down and loose, we increase its exposure to heat and UV damage. This includes excessive drying of the hair and the scalp. When we wear our hair in braids, we limit the amount of hair that is exposed to these damaging elements.
This, in turn, increases the moisture retention of our hair. You can use a dab of hair oil on the ends of the braids, whether they are your own hair or the human hair braided extension, to protect the exposed parts of the hair.
Braids are time-saving and convenient, so you can focus on more of what life has to offer.
Stress is one of those things that we have become accustomed to accepting as just another part of life these days. This is despite the fact that stress is a leading cause of illness, and that includes skin and hair issues.
When we wear braids, we save an hour or two a day because little to no hair styling is required. This time-saving process reduces stress, which will only help our scalp and hair health.
Installing human braids in human hair, whether with extensions or just our own hair, is a simple process.
While some complicated braided hairstyles require more time and effort, they are in the minority. Most braids are simple, especially when you use human hair braided hair extensions. With proper installation, there is no damage to your natural hair.
Many professionals suggest using human hair braided extensions to enhance our own natural braids. This can increase the level of protection for our hair while it is in braids.
Highlights, hair coloring, and other styling processes that can be damaging or draining on our own hair can be used on human hair braided extensions.
We all want a new look or to add a highlight or a new color to our hairstyle now and then. If our hair is already struggling or damaged, this can make it weaker. Human-braided hair extensions can allow us to add highlights and new colors without damaging our hair.
When we combine our own braided hair with human hair braided extensions, we no longer have to choose between trying a new color style and damaging our hair or not.
Braided hairstyles, especially when coupled with human hair braided extensions, can last for days or longer.
One of the things that is often overlooked when discussing protective hairstyles is that the need to style any style daily is draining on the natural hair we want to protect. With braids, we can style once every few days and just touch it up each morning.
This is an added benefit of wearing braids. With human hair braided extensions, the time between styling can be increased even further.
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