Caring for natural hair is not a joke. It's more of a responsibility. Not that serious though, there's something you have to pay a little more attention to and not neglect. But sometimes it's hard to pinpoint what's causing damage to it. So in this video, I'm going to show you some things that are all around you that can dry up your hair, cause breakage and make a section of your hair a different texture and porosity than the rest. Have you ever noticed that no matter what you do, your ends always seem to have a higher porosity and a rougher texture than the rest of your hair? Even if you just got a fresh trim, the end of your hair will always have a higher porosity and rougher texture. Here's why. As your hair grows out, what once was new growth becomes your ends. There's the oldest part of your hair, meaning you've washed it, stretched it, styled it, blow dried it, and flat ironed it, more times than any part of your hair, is to most use and damage area of your hair. This tapered effect is perfectly normal, but there's a few things I do to help minimize it. Trim your ends on a consistent schedule, or dust your ends more often. For me, I dust off knots and Tim's split ends once a week, and I trim off about a fourth of an inch every four months, which comes out to be about three times a year. This schedule works great for me because it keeps my ends from knotting and tangling, and I'm still able to retain length. But everyone's different. If you're really low maintenance with your hair, you can afford to trim it twice or even once a year. If you style and manipulate your hair a lot, then you may want to do trims more often, like four times a year. Overall, even if you have lower balance perosity here, treat your ends like they're high in perosity, because they probably are. So when you moisturize your hair, make more efforts to sealing the moisture in your ends. For me, I typically do liquid oil on my low perosity hair, and liquid cream oil on my ends. Below are two video links, one where I compare the LOC and LCO methods, and one where I show you how to do the LOC and LCO methods based on your hair's perosity. Also, when I do real protein treatments, I usually just focus the mixture on my ends to help patch up all the damage and splits. Another thing to watch out for is to pay attention to how you treat your ends when you style and stretch your hair. Some of our styling efforts can be brutal to our ends. It's not something you should stop doing altogether. It's more something to be conscious about, so you know to take more effort to balance things out. Have you ever noticed that one side of your hair isn't keeping up with the other side? Or your back middle section is always dry and rough, and makes kind of like a dent in the back of your head? Even if you're sleeping on a satin scarf, the side you sleep on the most deals with more friction. So you may notice that a section of your hair is drier or shorter than the rest. This can also happen to the ends of your eyebrows too. I noticed this with my hair a while back on the right side. For the longest, I assumed that's just the way my hair was, longer on the left and shorter on the right. It took me almost a year to figure out that it was for my sleeping position. I usually sleep on my right side, so I tried to change it up by switching sides and sleeping on my back every now and then. But over time, I found the best solution is to put my hair up in a pineapple most of the time, wear a satin scarf and sleep on a silk or satin pillowcase. Pineapples protect your ends from rubbing on anything and dry out. When you wear your hair down to bed, you're practically laying on your ends and causing friction. Your ends are the oldest, most fragile part of your hair, so it doesn't take much for them to dry out and break. A pineapple is a great solution because it positions your ends up and away from rubbing on anything while you sleep. Sleeping on a satin scarf and on a satin or silk pillowcase are good for your hair individually, but I have found that doing both is a big bonus for moisture retention. Even if you wear a satin scarf, cotton pillowcase is still soak up moisture. Test it out. Try using both a satin scarf and a silk pillowcase for a week and notice the difference in your hair and skin. I'm also obsessed with humidifiers because they help a lot to keep your hair and skin moisturized while you sleep. Share below your experiences with breakage. Who knows, maybe it'll help someone out. As always, thanks for watching, see you in the next video!