Do You NOT Cut/trim your ends???

[CurlyMoo]

Well I was the type of person to always trim my hair whenever I got a touch-up, but now that I am transitioning I have decided to not trim or dust for an entire year and see how it affects my ends. If my ends are terrible at the end of the year and need a trim it really wont matter b/c I am transitioning anyway, but if my ends are still thick and healthy it will just prove the fact that all that time I was faithfully trimming I was losing progress.

I too have been transitioning for the past 2 1/2 years and I have not trimmed for a 1 1/2 years. The problem with having some relaxed ends results in hair loss because the dangling relaxed ends tangle with the natural and they both lose! Usually then entire strand of hair will come out at the root or it will break off at the ends or where the relaxed hair meets the natural. After being in this forum I now know that I need to just go ahead and chop off 1 - 2 inches of hair.

 

[prospurr4]

I haven't trimmed in a while. My ends are not split, just uneven, but it really doesn't matter because I mostly wear buns or curly styles, anyway. However, when I reach WL at the end of this year, I plan to wear more straight styles. So, I will trim as necessary to have thick, blunt ends.

 

[nappy85]

Usually I don't. In January and March of this year I gave myself a mini trim of about 1" each time and it was the first time I had trimmed or cut my hair since June 2004. Now everytime I straighten my hair I have this urge to make my ends perfectly even. So, I'm not straightening my hair again until about December lol. I usually don't trim because I don't I need to. I only straighten my hair about 3-5x per year (and I'm trying to do less than that now), so I really don't have a purpose since I'm still trying to grow my hair out. My plan is to reach waist length and then gradually trim until my ends until they are how I want them at waist length. I don't have many split ends, etc... since I don't use heat much either.

 

[Sarahdais]

Yes, but I don't have a set schedule. When I see the need to trim, I do.

 

[lunabelle]

I haven't in 7 months and have achieved a lot of growth, but they're starting to look a lil raggedy now

 

[MizzCoco]

I don't trim, but I dust regularly. Once I reach my short-term goal of full APL then I'll do a good trim to even things up. But I PS 90% of the time so a blunt look isnt needed right now

 

[KhandiB]

I if its necessary, I use heat quite a bit, so I do clip my ends about 2 times a year. But not with every relaxer...

 

[Lyoness]

I haven't since I bc'd back in March, I'm too scared to go to a hairdresser, they get too scissor happy. My ends seem fine, although I can't see the strands from the back of my head. which is why I say seem..

 

[bnatural]

I only "dust' my ends when I get knots.

 

[Sha76]

Well, I do trim my hair. Mainly because I want to make sure I dont have any scab hair left over. There is a definite texture difference along the length.

 

[brucebettye]

I trim my ends when I need to, but I dust my ends about every three months. I don't use direct heat and I do not get split ends.

 

[twinkletoes17]

I haven't trimmed since March 2008. Yes, they're uneven lol. When I get to my desired length, then I'll trim. For now, I just want to grow

 

[Lovestyr]

I dont cut my hair typically. I may cut it every 6 months or so.

 

[LoveLongLocks]

Dust, Trim, cut all the time - as needed. If it is once a month or just twice a year, depends on the condition of my ends...Love long hair, but beautiful long hair.

 

[yardgirl]

I don't. They're not damaged so there's no reason to.

Basically. I do a search and destroy but usually I don't find anything to dust

 

[MyAngelEyez~C~U]

I don't. I keep my hair braided 75% of the time, so...

 

[CherieMarie]

I dont. I want to retain all my legnth for now. My ends are now healthy so i dont see the purpose in cutting them. When i finally make it to BSL i will start trimming to maintain that length, but until then i might do a search and destroy on splits but thats it.

 

[CoilyFields]

I used to get trims at every relaxer (every 6-8 wks) cause my stylist told me it made my hair grow. Since I've been natural for 2 years i only trim it every 6 months when i get it staightened. I've realized:

1. hair grows from the scalp so cutting the ends doesnt make a difference
2. you only need your ends clipped if they are split
3. If you take care of your hair (i.e. moisturize) then you wont have split ends
4. why did my stylist teach me to cut my ends instead of teaching me how to take care of them so they wont need to be cut?
5. trimming hair makes it look thicker because all of the hair is even (i think i may have just answered the previous question)
6. I have lost many inches of growth from unnecessary trims!

 

[BostonMaria]

I dust and do search and destroy's.

I haven't cut my hair in 2 years and its fine.

 

[vainღ♥♡jane]

i don't trim. i haven't trimmed since nov or dec last year when i first relaxed. i ended up going from shoulder length to ear length. i was tryin to make it even and i ended up choppin. i cut off more hair than a jealous stylist! so i know now that self trimming is not for me. my ends still look okay even though i haven't chopped. i will start going to a salon for trims once i reach apl.​

 

[DeenIsFirst]

I stopped trimming for about 5 months and ended up with lots of little single strand knotted ends that stuck together. The ends would gather like velcro so I had to cut them off because the knots stuck to each other and to split ends.

Now I know I have to trim every so often :/

 

[Celestial]

No. I would only trim off the hair or hairs that are knotted or split and that doesn't happen often.

 

[sparkle25]

I have trimmed my hair only once in the last 6 years. I dont think you need to, and if you go in for a trim every six weeks, which means a cut for most hair dressers, you are cutting off the hair as fast as it grows in. I see no point. Only once a year get a trim. Thats what i would do anyways.

 

[questionable]

I truly believe in healthy hair, so I get a professional trim twice a year and I dust on a regular. I wear my hair out a lot, so my ends have to be in tip top shape. I pamper my ends. Your ends say a lot about your hair. It bugs me to see uneven and raggedy ends. The condition of your hair will definitely improve once you start catering to your ends.

 

[NuBraveHeart]

quick question: how can i dust the ends i can't reach? this may seem silly, but yesterday i did the search and destroy method for the split and knotted ends i could bring in front of my eyes. i was very meticulous about it, and not much of my hair needed it. but, the crown and parts of the back of my hair aren't long enough for me to bring in front of my eyes to get a good look at the ends and determine which ones to snip. how do you do that? or do you just... not?

i'm afraid that i have a bit of breakage in the back from before i started my journey last year, and it's growing out, but if i can't see the ends to know the splits aren't traveling up the shaft and ruining all my new texlax process, what can i do?

 

[hairdrama:{]

The first year of my HJ I didn't, but now I do.

 

[vkb247]

I truly believe in healthy hair, so I get a professional trim twice a year and I dust on a regular. I wear my hair out a lot, so my ends have to be in tip top shape. I pamper my ends. Your ends say a lot about your hair. It bugs me to see uneven and raggedy ends. The condition of your hair will definitely improve once you start catering to your ends.

Your hair can be healthy when you don't get trims. Your hair can be unhealthy and you get regular trims. I understand wanting to have nice neat ends but splits can happen anywhere in the hair shaft so no amount of trimming will get rid of all of them. Taking care of your ends is not enough to make you hair health improve.

 

[Rei]

I trim every year. I tried to be like other ladies and not trim, since I wear my hair in its natural state 99.9% of the time (I straighten like once a year because it doesn't get that straight, and reverts so fast that its practically a waste of money). But my hair had been hell to detangle which confused me because my hair is short, so it shouldn't be taking that long...Then I got a trim last week when I got my hair straightened (lol didn't last a day), and now detangling is SO much easier. I can't see a difference because like I said, my hair is curly, but it feels better when I try combing through it.

so yeah.. i'm all for trims when needed. Holdin on to those crap ends is just ridiculous.

 

[Desert Skye]

I used to love to trim because I loved how it made my ends feel, but for 2009 I only got a dusting last week.

I know split ends don't really travel up, but I hate seeing them.

 

[questionable]

Your hair can be healthy when you don't get trims. Your hair can be unhealthy and you get regular trims. I understand wanting to have nice neat ends but splits can happen anywhere in the hair shaft so no amount of trimming will get rid of all of them. Taking care of your ends is not enough to make you hair health improve.

I guess I could have elaborated on all of the contributing factors to healthy hair...since the thread was about
"ends", I based my post on that. I have to be more specific in the future.

I will consider this a lesson learned...after all, I'm still a newbie around here.