Are procective styles necessary?

[alona]

For those of you who are obtaining your hair goals or have repaired your hair, would you say that using protective styles played a part? I was just wondering if you could achieve length by using a good regime without using protective styles.

tia

 

[Wolftrap]

As many know on this board. I am really anti-bun. But a lot of ladies say that they get growth from buns and retain length. I don't do protective styles often my regimine is like this: I wear my hair down for 4 weeks (dominican blow out weekly for 4 weeks) and then the other 4 I use surge and wear protective styles like bantu knots, cornrows and braidouts until at 8 or 9 weeks I get another touch up. You can definitely gain length without protective styles but I think you get length faster if you do them religiously especially that dreaded "BUN"

 

[EbonyEyes]

Check out this thread Hair Growth without a Protective Style

Although some people can grow their hair without protective styles, I personally cannot. If I left my hair out all the time, it would tangle and knot.

When I started wearing twists all the time is when my hair started retaining almost all of my growth.

-Ebony

 

[Babygurl]

I have seen many people acheive growth without protective styles. I am a person that used buns to grow out my hair, it helped me stop playing in my hair and I do believe that protective styles helphe reatin more length quicker.

 

[Paris Belle]

I used to wear them 50-60% of the time but I find that when I am wearing them 90% of the time, my hair grows the most and is the healthiest and I retain length better because my ends are moisturized and healthier...Thus, I don't have to trim my hair too much or too often. HTH

 

[lovelymissyoli]

For those who wear protective styles (i.e. buns) does pulling your hair back constantly have an effect on your hairline? I try not to pull my hair back so rough, but I see a lot of women who have no hairline, what did they do wrong?

 

[tlmack]

What are all the protective styles?

buns?
baggies?
corn rows?

What else?

 

[Wolftrap]

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tlmack said:
What are all the protective styles?

buns?
baggies?
corn rows?

What else?

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twist outs
braidouts
bantu knots

 

[simplycee]

I have been wearing the "dreaded bun" since I took my braids out a week ago. I must admit that this is mostly due to the fact that I have so much new growth. I read in several posts that protective styles help you maintain length. I'm testing out this theory. I'm very close to bra strap and I want to see if this will help me get there.

 

[i12sitonmyhair]

I wore buns a lot while growing my hair, but my hair is natural so it wasn't stressful to my hair strands. Maybe that has something to do with the hairline breakage some people are experiencing. Maybe, if people who have relaxed hair were just as gentle as they could possibly be with their hair when brushing it into a loose bun, then maybe there wouldn't be as much stress on their hair. I don't know for sure if this is the problem, but it seems like it's harder to convince hair that has been straightened to suddenly bend and contort itself into a bun. It might rebel and break.