Help me fix my hair!

[Anonymous]

I used to have long, healthy, virgin hair. About a year ago a stylist convinced me to do highlights and biweekly blowouts, and now my hair is FRIED. it’s about mid back length but the ends are very sparse from breakage, and there are several chunks of strands that are VERY short (3 inches or so) that fall out if I put my hair up.

I really, really don’t want to cut it - I absolutely hate short hair - but I also realize it looks terrible.

Anything I can do to grow it faster and stop the breakage? Supplements? Treatments? Hair styles that won’t look bad?

[Anonymous]

Olaplex.

[Anonymous]

Your hair is damaged. Once you get over that - you will need to cut it.

I’d see a new stylist & go from there

[Anonymous]

Find a new stylist that is used to treating damaged hair. Obviously stop highlighting. Your current stylist clearly doesn’t know how to properly bleach if they damaged your hair, especially this badly in 1 year.

You need to cut the worst of the damage off. Get over the whole “I don’t like short hair”. You don’t need to get a pixie cut, but you need to cut it to shoulder length and commit to every 6 weeks trim until the rest of the damage is gone. Your hair will never be healthy and grow out properly if you don’t cut it.

You can try the K18 or Olaplex bandaids, but nothing will work until you remove the damage. Returning to a natural darker color will also make the damaged hair less visible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Your hair is damaged. Once you get over that - you will need to cut it.

I’d see a new stylist & go from there

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