Hair Extensions:The Real-Right Way To Untangle Your Hair
Corinne Asch- Mar 30, 2018
- 4 min read
Updated: May 11
Hair extensions or your own hair, you've been told for as long as you can remember to only brush your hair when it's dry.
Ok, I've had enough of this false fact. The truth is that's the way to break off a lot of your hair.
Brushing your hair dry is the worst thing you could do. Imagine how much stiffer our hair gets when it's not just washed. That plus the products and dirt that's in our hair. Do we really want to tear our hair through that?
The rule of brushing your hair when it's dry only applies to those times when you have massive tangles, not your everyday kind. Even (and especially) if you have hair that tangles easily and a lot, you do not want to brush it dry. When I do, I can see my ends coming off.
Try brushing your hair over the bathroom sink to see how many of your ends are breaking off that your brush doesn't catch. You're going to be appalled.
First of all, how can you style your hair if
you can't brush it until it's dry?
It's an impossible task.
You can untangle your hair with less breakage and hair loss when done in the shower with conditioner on your hair then you can when dry and dirty.
That's right, it's true!
Simply wash your hair (tangles and all), rinse, squeeze out as much water as you can, then apply a generous amount of a thick hair conditioner. Now add a little water to your conditioned hair and brush gently from the ends of the hair working your way up to the roots with a wet brush, adding a little more water when needed. If your hair is very tangled, part it with your fingers first.
Remember to be gentle. If you get stuck on a tangle, use your fingers to gently part the tangle, add a little more water and watch the tangles melt away.
This works beautifully on hair extensions as well as hair without.
Where did this myth come from?
It started back in the days when women not only didn't have many chemicals they could put on their hair, but they also only washed their hair every couple of months or every month for that very fastidious gal. Legend has it that back then, they would brush their hair every day giving it 100 strokes to brush away dust and remove loose hairs, keeping it clean and shiny. My guess is, sure there may have been that occasional girl who brushed her hair every day, but most probably brushed 2 or 3 times a week.
But, not shampooing is a big hair-saving factor (all shampoos are drying to the hair), and by brushing their hair with pure boar bristle brushes, which were the brushes women used in those days their hair was amazingly beautiful.
Boar bristles are lighter and finer than nylon bristles and are great at massaging the scalp, unclogging hair follicles and distributing the oils throughout the lengths of the hair. That's what made it such a healthy thing to do for the hair.
If you ever wait too long to shampoo your hair and you have lots of oils (or you want to just add some essential oils to your hair) and give your hair and scalp a good brushing with a real 100% boar bristle brush, then do it. It would indeed be good thing to do. I would do it once a month as an oil distributing and scalp stimulating exercise.
Today, we do everything we can to keep the oils away, so brushing is no longer the conditioning agent it used to be. Not only that but our tools are harder and don't have as much give as pure boar bristle. Boar bristle brushes are also very expensive which is why they are not as readily available. The public has opted for cheaper, less healthy options (much like with our food. But that's for another topic).
That's why, by the way, that they would give their hair the famous 100 strokes. That boar bristle brush was too soft to tear through their hair, so they would patiently give it 100 strokes to get their tangles out. That's another reason their hair didn't break under the brush.
Still skeptical?
Test it out yourself. Try brushing your hair dry one day and my way the next. You tell me which way yielded less hair in your brush.
Sure, if you have a massive knot, I mean the solid mass type, then sure, untangle it with dry hair, but if your hair is of an everyday tangle variety, or you even have a lot of tangles, then wet hair with lots of conditioner is your best friend.
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