@yourbesthair: New growth or split ends? How to tell ✅ There's a quick way to tell new growth from damage, and it takes about ten seconds. Look at where the short hair sits. New growth comes from the scalp, so it's short all the way through and it shows up round the parting and the hairline. A split end is at the far end of a long strand, because that's the section that's been on your head longest and taken the most handling. Then look at the end of it. New hair has a blunt, even tip. Nothing has happened to it yet. No scissors, no heat, no friction. A damaged end is thin and pale and starting to separate, sometimes into two, sometimes into a little brush of fibres. And if you're still not sure, use your fingers. Run them down the strand. New growth is smooth the whole way down. A worn end catches, because the cuticle that should be lying flat has already lifted and broken away. Clients ask me this constantly, usually while pulling a section forward and saying "look, it's snapping". Half the time it isn't. It's hair that finally got long enough to see. So the short version. Root, blunt, smooth: leave it alone, that's your length arriving. Tip, frayed, catching: that's what a trim is for. There's a step after this that changes the result completely. Follow to catch it.

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