It’s amazing how many people commit these ‘hair crimes’ and wonder why they’re so unhappy with their manes!

Take a look at these 5 hair no-no’s I’ve accumulated over the years. What do you think?

Brushing wet hair with a wide-toothed comb is much safer than a brush

1. Never brush your hair when it’s wet. Especially if your hair is curly! Brushing your hair when it’s wet can over-stretch it and cause your hair to break. Only use wide-toothed combs – and work your way up from the tip to the roots.

2. Rubbing your wet hair with a towel. Never rub – always pat. When you’re rubbing your manes with a towel to get it dry, you’re causing friction between the strands, can break the hair, can cause your hair to go frizzy, and increases your fly-aways! Gently squeeze the excess water out of your hair, then pat with a towel.

3. Blow-drying your hair when it’s soaking wet. All this does is make the total drying time much longer – which means that your hair is exposed to heat for a longer period of time. After gently squeezing out the excess water from your hair, wrap a towel around your head to soak up some more water for about 5-10 minutes. By then, your hair should be “towel-dried”. This is the best time to blow-dry your manes.

4. Using old brushes and combs. Sure, the economy calls for all of us to be a little more tight with our money. But using old brushes and combs, and I mean old as in some of the teeth from the combs are misshaped and/or gone, the brushes dont’ look the same anymore, etc etc. Using brushesand combs that are damaged could cause your hair to break, snag, and cause tangles.

5. Straightening your hair every day. The more heat damage you put your hair through, the faster the hair goes through damage. Straightening irons put your hair through much more stress than blow dryers. So try to alternate straightening with a straightening iron and a blow-dryer when you can.