Why Your Protective Styles Aren’t Helping Your Hair Grow


Think protective styles are helping your hair grow? If your hair is dry before installation, you could be causing more breakage than growth. Here’s how to properly prep your hair so you actually retain length.

Most people wash their hair right before a protective style appointment, but skip the most important part: proper moisture.

That’s where the problem starts….

 THE REAL PROBLEM

Most people love to focus on the style...Not the condition of the hair going into it...And that's exactly why breakage happens.

If your hair isn’t fully moisturized before it’s braided, twisted, or tucked away, it becomes more fragile. That means it’s more likely to break during installation, or worse, when you take the style down weeks later.

And here’s the frustrating part….

Your hair is growing while it’s in that protective style. Hence, new growth!But if it breaks off during takedown, you’ll never actually see that growth.

Your hair is growing in it's protective styles...but breakage during takedown is why you never see it.