Hairstyle World Article for Women

Doing the splits

June 12th, 2006

All growing hair splits because the inside of each hair, called the cortex, loses moisture and the hair begins to unravel rather like a rope.

The only cure for split ends is to have them cut off, because otherwise they can travel up the hair and make the damage worse.

They look unsightly too, because where the hair splits the colour looks lighter and dead looking. But a lot of people are terrified of going to the hairdressers to have the split ends trimmed off because they believe (and often rightly) that they’ll actually lose a lot more hair than they bargained for. In his book, George Michael describes his special method of solving the split ends problem. You could get a friend to help you try this at home.

1. Take a small strand of hair, about half an inch in diameter. The hair should be dry.

2. Twist the strand gently until the damaged ends appear. These may be apparent along the whole length of the strand.

3. Holding a pair of sharp scissors perpendicular to the strand, snip off the split ends and damaged parts, using only the tips of the scissors.

4. Continue to move down the strand in small sections, following this method. You are not trimming length, merely split ends.

5. Go all round the head in this way. It will take between 10 and 45 minutes. Cut off only the damaged ends, nothing else.

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