How to Make African American Hair Grow Faster

Avoid breakage to grow long hair

African American hair may suffer breakage or periods of stunted growth. Heat styling, poor nutrition, or lack of adequate care when styling can create these problems. Fragile African American hair grows slowly and encounters more problems. While hair growth is determined by genetics, there are ways to improve your chances. Avoiding detrimental heat styling and nurturing the hair will ensure growth and health much more quickly than doing the opposite. With a few pointers you can grow your hair long, and see quick results.

Things You'll Need

• Wide-toothed comb

Instructions

1. Avoid relaxing with higher strength than you need. This happens often and can be a culprit for impeding growth. Relaxers with a higher strength than is needed for your hair type will surely cause more damage than one that is suitable for you. To avoid relaxer-related breakage, choose a relaxer made for your hair type, and have a stylist apply it to ensure you are not causing damage by overprocessing your hair.

2. Use a wide-toothed comb. Combing in general can damage the hair by pulling and breaking off hair, but using a wide-toothed comb will minimize damage. Wide-toothed combs with rounded smooth tips gently separate the hair and decrease pulling, to help you maintain more of your length by preventing breaks and split ends.

3. Avoid overusing heat styling tools. Heat burns the hair, especially ends. Split and damaged ends make it difficult for African American hair to retain length. Try styles that don't require heat or only can be maintained for a few days without having to use heat, so your hair gets a break. There are heat protectant products on the market that help minimize heat damage.

4. Braid the hair. Giving the hair a much-needed break from excessive styling is important to ensure growth. Braids are an effective protective style that requires very little up-keep. Hair will grow quicker in braids than in most other less-protective styles, because it can grow without being interfered with by styling tools, heat and other growth-impeding factors.

References

• www.blackbeautyandhair.com: longer hair