Having long hair means you have to take more care in maintaining the hair. Since long hair has the advantage of being styled into versatile types of hairstyles, you are lucky to get your long hair styled into different styles to suit any occasion. The difficulty for maintaining and the lack of time for caring long hair has made the people of today with busy lifestyle to choose short haircut that can be managed easily. But short hair cannot be styled in different ways like long hair. If you love your long hair and do not want to cut it short, you can try out some simple tips to retain its length and make it more manageable. People think that just washing and conditioning is all that they need to do for the beauty and health of their long hair. Even though regular shampooing and conditioning are essential to keep the hair at its best condition, you can do more than that to make your hair silky smooth and shiny.
Treating your hair carelessly is one of the reasons why your hair loses its natural beauty and feel. Some people just sleep off with their hair tied tightly in braids or ponytails. The high stress can make it easy to be broken and damaged. So, make sure that you do not tie your hair so tightly that the free air flow is blocked that make it suffer. You should also limit the use of tight clips and hair bands that will cause breaking. People who are growing their hair should keep trimming the hair in equal intervals of 3 months so that split ends do not develop that can increase the chance for breakage. And if you want to just maintain a particular length, and then you should keep trimming the hair once in every month to keep it at its best condition. Trying to de-tangle with a brush is the false method of removing the tangles that can stretch and make it break off easily. It is always recommended to remove tangles with your finger and then brush with a wide toothed comb, especially when your hair is wet.