Teasing Hair

[Curlybeauty]

Is teasing the hair (combing it backwards) safe?

 

[Myjourney2009]

I dont know about how safe it is.

I do know that it rips up the hair and can potentially cause breakage if the hair is not bone straight.

 

[Curlybeauty]

It just makes me cringe looking at people do it, but I do like how it creates volume for buns and other styles

BUT I will stick to blown out or air dried hair for that

 

[Leeda.the.Paladin]

Is teasing the hair (combing it backwards) safe?

Not for me

 

[Keen]

It is safe if you don't it right. I tease my friend's hair when she want a lift on top. She never looses any hair. I part the hair in small section, tease it with a medium size comb. I take it down by combing each small section individually. People usually loose hair when they try to comb out the entire ting at once. She only let me tease her hair though because I'm very careful.

 

[Nonie]

Is teasing the hair (combing it backwards) safe?

NO, it is not."

Check this out:

A perfect hair, its cuticle intact, taken from a newborn baby
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Damaged cuticle, due to backcombing heavily sprayed hair []
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Source

ETA: When you back comb, you're going against the direction of your hair's cuticle.

If you think about it, combing your hair with combs that have seams can rip the cuticle out even though you're going in the direction they are facing. Backcombing IMO is way worse.

Just because hair doesn't break right then or so doesn't mean that you didn't weaken it and cause damage that could have been avoided. In time the damage will show itself.

@Curlybeauty, I don't think it matters what kind of hair you have, straight or curly, backcombing will damage the cuticle.

 

[Fhrizzball]

It just makes me cringe looking at people do it, but I do like how it creates volume for buns and other styles

BUT I will stick to blown out or air dried hair for that

It makes me cringe too no matter how straight the hair. All I can imagine is how the cuticles would look on the microscopic level when doing that.

I would rather create volume another way than ever tease hair no matter the type.

 

[ms-gg]

It is one of the most unhealthiest things that you can do to your hair.

Please put the comb down.

Love,

your hair. <-- I'm only teasing (pun intended). Alright, enough whack jokes for the night.

 

[DaiseeDay]

Ugh when I was relaxed I would do it every once in a while and I made myself cringe. I really hate to see people back comb, spray, back comb, spray, repeat.

 

[Foxglove]

We spend so much time trying to avoid tangles and SSK's. This would just multiply tangles/knots IMO

 

[hannan]

Please, for the love of your hair DON'T DO IT! I cringe when I see videos on this. Matter of fact, I just saw one a couple of minutes ago and it made my hair weep.

What's the point of conditioning it and babying it to only have us intentionally put it in massive tangles? I can't imagine how many splits and the amount of breakage it'll cause.

 

[LushLox]

No, I would never tease my hair, it's a one way ticket to damage city.

 

[MissMusic]

Never tease long hair, never tease natural hair. However, it is fine to tease bone straight hair that is short/medium length every once in a while.

 

[Curlybeauty]

Oh, you don't have to worry about me

I'm such a scaredy cat as it is when it comes to my hair!

 

[NIN4eva]

No way, no how. A girl at school picked up a comb and thought she was going to tease my hair and she almost got punched in the face.

 

[Nonie]

Never tease long hair, never tease natural hair. However, it is fine to tease bone straight hair that is short/medium length every once in a while.

MissMusic No it's not. It never is FINE to tease hair.

Now if you don't care about healthy hair and are only interested in appearances, then knock yourself out. But it's wrong advice to say it's fine to tease bone straight hair. You'd still be causing trauma to the hair cuticle and creating damage whether hair is natural, relaxed, curly, straight, short, medium or long.

 

[LittleLuxe]

Teasing hair freaks me out.

I just shudder thinking of how intentionally tangled the hair is and how it will have to go back to normal and...gah.

 

[MissMusic]

MissMusic No it's not. It never is FINE to tease hair.

Now if you don't care about healthy hair and are only interested in appearances, then knock yourself out. But it's wrong advice to say it's fine to tease bone straight hair. You'd still be causing trauma to the hair cuticle and creating damage whether hair is natural, relaxed, curly, straight, short, medium or long.

I didn't attack anyone, so I see no need for your rude/snide statement. Secondly, the damage is done over time, not right away, and as I and your source said, never tease CURLY hair. We can agree to disagree, but the rudeness is unecessary.