5 things to stop doing to your natural hair from a Trichologist. As always DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOU! #naturalhair #4chair #trichologist #afrohair #texturedhair

a Trichologist, here are five things I tell you to stop doing to your natural hair. Some of these might be on popular opinions. If you don't agree with what I'm about to say, that's absolutely fine, but I'm not going to argue with you in the comments section. Your car pattern is one of the least useful things about your hair. Stop letting the category such as 4C ruin your hair care routine. What actually decides how a product behaves on your hair and scalp is down to things such as porosity, your density and how thick each hair strand is. Learn about those free and you can predict what works. A letter and a number just simply can't do that. Stop trimming your hair to expect it to grow faster. Your hair grows from the root in your scalp, not from the ends of your hair. Cutting your hair cannot speed up what is happening at the root. Trims keep the length you've already grown by stopping split ends climbing up the hair strand. That is the job of trimming your hair. Stop telling yourself that your hair can't grow because of your hair texture. Most hair grows around half an inch per month. You just can't always see it because maybe your hair is in a style or quaily hair typically shrinks. When the length of your hair stores, it's usually breakage taking it faster than you're growing it. The real work is protecting your length, not chasing hair growth. Stop producing how often you wash to protect your hair because it does none of that. A dirty scalp is not a healthy place to grow hair from. Scalp is skin, so wash often because the scalp is where growth actually happens. Stop treating clarifying shampoos like the enemy. Clarifying shampoos do a really good job of removing product, sweat, dead skin cells off your scalp, then regular hydrating or moisturizing shampoos. That build-up can dull your hair and clog the pores on your scalp. Notice that none of these five things that I've just spoken about requests you to do more. They ask you to understand what your hair actually needs, so you stop wasting effort on the wrong things.