Do You Trim Your Own Split Ends?
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Topic: Do You Trim Your Own Split Ends?
Posted By: Karen Shelton
Subject: Do You Trim Your Own Split Ends?
Date Posted: Mar 16, 2005 at 4:24pm
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To trim or not to trim...those pesky splits. What do you do about them? Do you ignore them and hope they will go away (they won't) or what do you do? Share your thoughts and vote in the new poll above.
Thanks in advance for sharing your clipping wisdoms.
Best wishes,
Karen Karen Shelton38427.684224537
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That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger or drives you totally insane. :-)
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Replies: 28
Posted By: Karen Shelton
Date Posted: Mar 16, 2005 at 4:24pm
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To trim or not to trim...those pesky splits. What do you do about them? Do you ignore them and hope they will go away (they won't) or what do you do? Share your thoughts and vote in the new poll above.
Thanks in advance for sharing your clipping wisdoms.
Best wishes,
Karen Karen Shelton38427.684224537 !$ Shab` dbe ,%4 b` , 8bp - )%! )-% !$ -,$`r /2
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Posted By: Supersugar
Date Posted: Mar 16, 2005 at 6:00pm
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Well...well. I trim the ones I can see, which is very little of my hair. It stinks having foot-long hair. 
When a few strands come out of the back, I examine them to see if 1) they came out by the root (which means they're not breaking off - phew and 2) if they're split. So far the back seems to be generally okay, though I'm going to ask a relative to dust my hair all over this weekend.
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Posted By: AnaisSatin
Date Posted: Mar 17, 2005 at 9:50am
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I voted "What split ends?". On the average I find maybe one per week. Off they go, snip snip! $$ )'```ara $).,`` %*,`r !,,!-- ,,)-% ! " $4
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Posted By: Karen Shelton
Date Posted: Mar 17, 2005 at 10:31am
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Hi Anais,
Ahhhh, I was snipping this morning in the bright morning sunlight. I didn't find too many but did find a few. :-) I am glad to hear that you are so diligent to catch them. I try to devote some time each week but tend to forget and then will notice one and want to instantly snip it, regardless of where I am. Which is sometimes inappropriate to snip. :-) Once I was in a restaurant and notice a long split end and was beside myself until I snipped it later. And then sometimes they float back into the bulk of my hair and are gone forever. :-) !$ Shab` dbe ,%4 b` , 8bp - )%! )-% !$ -,$`r /2
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Posted By: AnaisSatin
Date Posted: Mar 18, 2005 at 5:34pm
Hi Karen
Heehee, even though I know they don't "spread", it makes me paranoid to
leave one alone. Because if it doesn't get lost, I'll still forget to
go back and find it!
What to do when you find a split, and don't have scissors:
(1) Tug on the hair gently to locate its root.
(2) Make a note of that, or at least the general area on your head
(3) Narrow it down at a more convenient time.
(4) OFF IT GOES!
Hope this helps some folks
Anais
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Posted By: Jeffrey Hines
Date Posted: Mar 18, 2005 at 5:40pm
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You could carry around those little tape flags and flag it for later.
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Posted By: Karen Shelton
Date Posted: Mar 18, 2005 at 7:41pm
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Hi Anais,
Thank you soooooooo much for the helpful hints.
Jeff was making a funny. I am famous for always putting little colored tape flags on all the magazines I am reading, so it makes sense that I could mark my split ends with them. I guess I would need to use red flags. :-)
Thanks again Anais.
Have a great weekend.
Karen !$ Shab` dbe ,%4 b` , 8bp - )%! )-% !$ -,$`r /2
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Posted By: AnaisSatin
Date Posted: Mar 19, 2005 at 6:29pm
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That's so funny! Hm... post it notes. $$ )'```ara $).,`` %*,`r !,,!-- ,,)-% ! " $4
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Posted By: PurpleBubba
Date Posted: Mar 20, 2005 at 12:09pm
I trim my own splits (individual strands) and I do my own regular trims using Feye's self trimming methods.
http://members.fortunecity.com/feye/trim/
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Posted By: Elissa
Date Posted: Mar 21, 2005 at 6:57am
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I not only trim my ends, but do all of my trims because no stylist ever listens to me!
I've been saving a fortune cutting and coloring at home for eons. I also find it most convenient because I can do it whenever I choose. |
Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Mar 21, 2005 at 6:12pm
In the course of the past 3 weeks, I've spent about a total of 12 hours
doing "search and destroy" on split-ends and it has made an appreciable
difference in the appearance of my hair. Finding split ends in my
hair is like shooting fish in a barrel. I've found some terrific
lighting conditions (early morning or late afternoon sunshine) which
helps spotlight those nasty splits, breaks, dots, and even knots  (yes, some individual strands found their way into a knot).
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Posted By: loquacious
Date Posted: Mar 28, 2005 at 7:25pm
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Vote #1 for letting my hairdresser do it.
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Posted By: Layla
Date Posted: Mar 29, 2005 at 10:29am
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If I notice one I snip it off and spend the next half an hour searching for more and snipping them. I didn't used to have splits but recently I've been getting more of them. I don't get splits in the back just in the front.! % !c. ` Ba % , 0 " ,"B "2%,$ %,%$(( $ "2
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Posted By: eKatherine
Date Posted: Mar 29, 2005 at 10:47am
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[QUOTE=loquacious] Vote #1 for letting my hairdresser do it. |
Posted By: loquacious
Date Posted: Mar 29, 2005 at 10:59am
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It depends entirely on what I want at the time, but usually just the splits. When I started going to Tony, I had very long hair (classic length apparently, by reading the long hair boards) that he just went crazy over. When I cut it very short it seemed like he was grieving about it, in fact he refused for a while. He's definitely very into long hair and encourages me to grow it longer everytime I go in. If I go in just because of split ends, he removes the minimal amount of length and spends much time doing the search/destroy method. Right now we've gotten to just below shoulder length, who knows where it will go from here. I'm not attached to the concept of growing or cutting it (I liked it short, too) but the fact I am not a slave spending so much time fixing it as I did when it was shorter has kept my mindset of letting it grow a while longer.
Interestingly enough, my girlfriend goes to him as well - she has super short hair and he never complained when she cut it short and doesn't try to push her to grow it. On her, I love it the way it is so maybe he knows not to overstep those boundaries 
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Posted By: BrownEyez2
Date Posted: Mar 29, 2005 at 3:26pm
I do a "hunt and snip" for any/all pesky split ends. I try to catch them as soon as I can. For some reason I tend to get them more on the sides than anywhere else!?? I don't find any often, but when I do I try to get rid of them immediately! < ,) C bn`der% 0bb "2,`` )2-!-),%) %,%)$ b "$
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Posted By: Pink
Date Posted: Mar 30, 2005 at 4:15pm
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I usually don't take the risk of cutting my own hair at all. So I chose I let my hairdresser do the deed at my regular trim session, because I don't get many split ends.
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Posted By: claribuzz
Date Posted: Mar 30, 2005 at 10:12pm
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hehe thank god i have short hair, the split ends are cut off evry month before they even start to formed
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Posted By: Tainted
Date Posted: Apr 8, 2005 at 12:04pm
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Wow...I'm so glad I found this topic...I sit with a scissor almost every night hunting for any split ends or "exploded" spots (which show as tiny little white "beads" on the hair shaft--they're caused when water boils in the hair (from heat appliances) which causes steam to form and then the steam basically "explodes" that spot on the hair when it tries to escape). I have so many of them because I went to the salon a couple of months ago and they used these boiling hot hair dryers to blow my hair straight after a Long-layer cut. My hair looked beautiful at the time but now it looks so .... split and beady. Due to this, I'm afraid to go back to the salon so my hair is becoming pretty uneven from the split end cutting I seem to be addicted to. I find myself so preoccupied with searching for ones to cut off that even when I'm not home I look for them and if I find one I break it off myself. I have to pin my hair back to avoid doing this ... what a shame!
Do you think I could walk into a salon and tell them to dry cut my hair so I don't have to worry about my hair being boiled again? (! `gda %b` %,$$ ` !. `b ).%- %- $ !- br .&
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Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: Apr 8, 2005 at 1:44pm
Careful, it can be addictive! I even worked myself into a case of
trichotillomania about a year back because I got so obsessed with
pulling out weird kinky hairs! (I stopped when I stayed at a
hotel that had an elevator with mirrors in it and lights right over
your head....I could see my thick halo of all those short newly growing
hairs!).
You have the right to speak with the person who will cut your hair
before you get in the chair. If you don't feel you can trust them
to do exactly what you ask, you can leave. (Or if there's
pressure, you can schedule an appointment for a later time, then call
back and cancel later). You should never allow anyone to push
something on your hair that you do not want.
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Posted By: Karen Shelton
Date Posted: Apr 8, 2005 at 5:52pm
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Hi,
Yes it can be addictive but in an odd way, I find it relaxing to do since usually all I do is work, work, work and then work some more Yes, I know I am a workaholic and have an addictive personality but at this point I am aware of my work addiction and focus on providing balance in my life by taking scheduled time off to read or relax. And oddly, sniping the ends are calming. So I take time for that.
I bought some expensive trimming scissors but find that the Conair Professional Barber shears work just as well and are way less expensive.
Today I made an appointment with a new hairdresser because my former quit the biz to go work in a lawyers office. The previous hairdresser, Shelley, is still MIA somewhere in Arizona. Maybe I jinx hairdessers so that they quit? LOL.
Anyway, the new hairdresser talked to me on the phone about my highlights (I haven't had them done in about 9 months) and I told her I wanted her to use Matrix SoColor which has been used on my hair for years. She said she wanted to try Redken. Well of course I was totally against that. Then she asked if I needed a trim? I said NO very forcefully. Supposedly she specializes in "long hair" but I am going to be very cautious until I know that I can trust her. I am taking someone to the salon with me for the first visit.
Meanwhile, the fact that she asked me about a trim made me aware of my split ends and I have been snipping off and on all afternoon. :-) I even bought a new pair of shears just for the purpose. And I think my hair looks better after just a little dusting.
Anyway...enough rambling...I am really enjoying all the input. Fascinating.
Karen !$ Shab` dbe ,%4 b` , 8bp - )%! )-% !$ -,$`r /2
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Posted By: Tainted
Date Posted: Apr 8, 2005 at 6:39pm
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Wow ... trichotillomania ... sorry to hear that!
See, with me I don't actually pull the whole hair out of my head. I just break off the "split" piece which is usually right at the end of my hair. I am very, oh what's the word I'm looking for...???...??? vain (?) about my hair--I am very careful with it and I try to keep it looking healthy and shiny ... that salon visit really messed my mind up over this whole situation because now I'm obsessed with trying to get it back into "beautiful" condition ... I think I've bought every product for "dry and damaged hair" that they sell ... I guess the best I can do right now is "mask" the damage :(
Thanks for the reply :)
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Posted By: monusingh
Date Posted: Apr 11, 2005 at 9:15pm
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Search and distroy!!!! I have too many split ends, and I try to do it once every couple days, but I don't think that's enough with all the splits I have. I got a trim about 3 weeks ago, but it didn't help much. I don't have too many more of the splits at the ends, but a lot of the ones that look like balls of dust on the hair shaft. Arrrrgggg. Writing about this makes me want to go grab a pair of scissors and S&D!!
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Posted By: eKatherine
Date Posted: Apr 11, 2005 at 9:33pm
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[quote] See, with me I don't actually pull the whole hair out of my head. |
Posted By: Tainted
Date Posted: Apr 11, 2005 at 11:56pm
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The problem with this is that each break forms a split. Unless you trim it above the broken part, you are not removing the damage. [/QUOTE]
I just got a nice trim on Sunday and pretty much all of my split ends are gone ... my hair looks beautiful and healthy again---I feel so happy now :) (! `gda %b` %,$$ ` !. `b ).%- %- $ !- br .&
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Posted By: norskygrl21
Date Posted: Apr 15, 2005 at 8:27am
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Thank you, I cannot tell you what a relief it was to read this post!! I have been driving myself CRAZY wondering what those little "beads" were and if other people had them. I cannot tell you how long I have wondered this, thanks for the explanation.
I too, have a problem with wanting to search this little buggers out and then breaking them off, which I know is TERRIBLE. My question is, can coloring alone cause these? Should I snip these little guys off when I find them or can you salvage the hair? I totally moisturize since I have naturally wavy/curly hair that is on the fine side, but I let my hair air dry 95% of the time. However, I do curl my hair maybe 1 to 2 times a week-but I use styling products to protect and I never wrap the ends around the iron. Is it because I lighten my hair? Despite this, stylists say my hair is healthy, soft, shiny, and in overall good condition. I deep condition every other week and use professional products suited for my hair. Just curious, would appreciate some opinions on this one since I have been trying to grow it forever and can never get it past a certain point (because of breakage, genetics, who knows?) Tainted, if you have any suggestions or comments I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. 0- Ba%Nape`d 2 `b ($0 r &8 !!% -$ -,8`` ,
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Posted By: Tainted
Date Posted: Apr 15, 2005 at 10:09am
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Hi norskygrl21.
Don't those little beads just drive you CRAZY? I had no idea what those little suckers were until I came across this hair site that describes every type of hair ailment known...and they actually show you the hair follicles under a microscope...you would be SHOCKED to see what those "beads" really look like under a microscope--the whole hair shaft at that point is exploded...it can never be salvaged. Your best bet would be to cut them off above the break whenever you find one, HOWEVER...please be careful and try not to go overboard. If you have them all over the place and they're high up on the hair shaft you will wind up chopping off half of your hair. If that's the case, I would definitely suggest going to the salon and getting a professional trim. When I went for my trim last Sunday, all I wanted was a "small trim" because just like you I am trying to grow my hair long (down to like the middle of my back--right now it's about 1/6 down by back). But with all those pesky "beads" more needed to be trimmed and now my hair looks so much more healthier...it's amazing.
I bought all of these "long and strong" products and heat protectants and oils and, etc etc etc...lol...to protect my hair in hopes that I will not have to get a "big trim" the next time I go.
Also, with me I also color my hair so I'm not really sure if that's what causes the "beads"--I will post the link to that hair site for you to check out.
Since I'm so worried about ruining my hair I have made an appointment for the salon to get my hair done with this "protein glaze" that will return my hair to my natural color while it infuses it will all these essential proteins that will restore my hair. The lady is also going to put framing highlights in my hair so my hair still looks "light." I'm excited and scared at the same time...lol. I'll let you know how it turns out. (! `gda %b` %,$$ ` !. `b ).%- %- $ !- br .&
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Posted By: Tainted
Date Posted: Apr 15, 2005 at 10:18am
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http://www.pg.com/science/haircare/hair_twh_74.htm
For the "beads" look at the title "Trichorrhexis nodosa"
When you get to the bottom of each page just click on "next page" and it will take you through the chapters.
To go to the very beginning of the site click on "Table of Contents."
Hope this helps. Let me know.
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Posted By: norskygrl21
Date Posted: Apr 15, 2005 at 10:40am
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OH MY GOD! That website rocks, but I must say the close-ups of the damaged hair follicles made me break out in a cold sweat! I do not have a ton of them, I mostly see them on random hairs around my face that get the most heat applied via curling iron, which would make snipping the random beads relatively easy. Do you think I should be using more product and turning my iron down lower? Like I said before, I rarely blow dry anyways and I my stylists never run the color through to the ends either, plus I get regular trims professionally which is a discouraging thought because I am STILL getting these. Now I worry I have not been using enough product on the ends.... Thanks for all your help, I can now take better preventative measures. 0- Ba%Nape`d 2 `b ($0 r &8 !!% -$ -,8`` ,
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