Touching Your Hair And Possible Damage To It

In time too much of anything can do damage and this is especially true regarding hair, with drying and styling, it can eventually leave the hair damaged and prone to breakage but even without that the hair can encounter damage through too much touching of the hair and if you suffer from greasy hair you may find that constantly moving your hair to the sides, possibly to brush your hair out of the way of your face can contribute to spreading the grease near the scalp down the length of the hair strands.

Sometimes a person may play with their hair, twisting it and bending it, possibly through nervousness or even just boredom but too much of this can result in avoidable damage and again its something that can spread oils along the strands and as a result the hair looks greasier than it normally would.

Its normal to have to sweep your hair out of the way of your face with your fingers or possibly to pass your fingers through an area of your hair to settle it and prevent tangling and doing this a few times in the day is fine but if you are regularly playing with your hair, possibly even pulling at it and stretching it then you may be constantly doing damage to it and dulling the look of your hair by spreading sweat and bacteria picked up by your hands onto the hair.

Try to resist as much as you can, the need to touch your hair, unless absolutely neccessary, if it is done purely out of habit then you need to try and break that habit, it may not be easy at first because you may not even realise that you are doing it half of the time.

And one other important tip to avoid damage is to not chew on your hair, a repulsive thought for some but again a bad habit for others.

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