"Babying your ends"

[SCarolinaGirl]

What does that mean to you? Is it paying extra attention to your ends, making sure they're always moisturized?

 

[Poranges]

My idea from what I've accumalated from the board would be basically treating them like fine, expensive silk. Being very gentle, making sure they're always moisturized and sealed, protective styling often, just the PC things to do for your hair but being extra gentle with extra attention for your ends. HTH & HHG.

 

[msa]

For me it means 1) not letting them shrink up and 2) keeping them moisturized. I've noticed that even if I wear my hair out, as long as my ends aren't shrunken and dried out, they're fine. So I just have to keep them stretched (so that they don't knot up) and moisturized so that they don't break off.

 

[LaidBak]

Everything they said and...Not using a lot of heat on them (I used to 'bump' my ends 2 or 3 times a day with a curling iron). Keeping them up off your collar when you are trying to get from NL to SL.

 

[leona2025]

Ok bad and against LHCF rules, but for me it means only running the flat iron over them 1 time when flat ironing. I always moisturize and seal them and I pretty gentle when combing them.

 

[SpyCats]

I pay extra attention to my ends..I moisturize my ends every night with coconut oil and when applying a deep conditioner I make sure to really coat my ends.

ETA: Oh yeah, and I bun EVERYDAY

 

[tiffers]

-No heat
-Bunning
-Keeping your hair moisturized
-Deep conditioning at least once a week
-Being gentle

 

[Luscious Locks]

I'm glad you are clearing this up. This is perhaps one of the most vague terms we use on this board. It irked me sometimes because people were not really specific about it. I see that the meaning of this phrase differs more many people too.

 

[RosesBlack]

I bun, make sure that I keep my ends very moisturized and am very gentle with them. And I do my version of baggying at night.

 

[SEMO]

I've been wearing my hair down too much recently and need to get back to babying my ends. To me that means:
- wearing more buns, which keep my ends hidden from the drying effects of constant contact with the air.
- concentrating more of my moisturizing products, or conditioners, on my ends (which are the oldest part of my hair and need more moisture).
- baggying my ends more (putting a plastic cap on while conditioner is in my hair--so it penetrates the strands more deeply).
- making sure to seal my hair, concentrating on the ends, with a nice oil, like coconut or jojoba, after I put on my leave-in conditioner (which keeps the moisture I just put on my hair from escaping into the atmosphere so quickly--my hair stays moisturized longer).

 

[LushLox]

Agree with the above.

I always ensure that my ends are slathered in conditioner when DC'ing and that they are well moisturised.

 

[Highly Favored8]

For me babying my ends meaning sealing them in JBCO.