To nurture healthy and shiny hair, daily hair care is essential, from basic care steps to careful hair treatments. By sticking to these habits, you’ll quickly notice a significant change in the shine and vitality of your hair. Besides shampooing and using hair oils, there is another habit that many people tend to overlook. However, it has been proven that this habit is more beneficial to your hair than you may think.
Surprisingly, many people wake up with tangled, dry, and even damaged and falling hair without knowing that it could be due to how they treat their hair while sleeping. This is especially important for those with long hair.
Flip your hair up when sleeping
When you fall asleep, controlling your sleeping posture becomes out of reach, and the pressure on your hair due to sleeping on it is a consequence that cannot be avoided, leading to dry, damaged, and falling hair. To minimize this, remember to tie your hair up before going to bed, reducing the pressure on your hair throughout the night. This will give your hair a chance to relax and recover during your rest time. Try applying this method for a few weeks, and you will notice a significant improvement in reducing hair breakage.
Tie, bun, or braid your hair when sleeping
Although it may not seem ordinary, tying your hair before going to bed has surprising and noticeable beauty benefits for your hair. Just remember to tie your hair loosely to avoid the hair being tightly compressed and causing breakage.
If you tie or bun your hair up at the crown and then sleep, no matter if you toss or change positions, your hair will not be flattened. This allows you to maintain undisturbed hair throughout the night.
In addition, if you choose to bun or braid your hair before sleeping, you will wake up with natural-looking waves in the morning. This is a simple method to create soft and bouncy curls that many people have successfully applied.
Your hair can’t withstand “physical impact”
Not only lying on your hair while sleeping, but there is also another overlooked cause of hair breakage that many people are unaware of.
Have you ever noticed that every time you wear a shoulder bag, the bag strap frequently touches and compresses your hair? Continuously pulling your hair out of the bag strap not only is uncomfortable but also puts pressure on your hair, increasing the risk of breakage, split ends, and visible damage.
Furthermore, when wearing clothes, the collar can also have a significant impact on your hair, and each time this happens, you have to handle it by pulling your hair out of the collar. This is another unwanted “physical impact” on your hair.
To avoid these impacts, a simple solution is to tie your hair neatly when wearing clothes or carrying a bag. A neatly tied hairstyle will prevent your hair from shifting, getting caught, or being compressed, reducing the pressure on each hair strand and minimizing the risk of breakage.
In addition to daily hair care, just paying attention to these small daily tasks, you can protect your hair from unwanted effects. A little extra care and maintaining healthy habits will significantly improve dry and falling hair problems.