Curling irons and flat irons are definitely tools of torture! However, I used to blow dry my hair often and I think it did quite a bit of damage too. Good luck! Keep it strong with protein and moisture.Īnonymous, I agree, and disagree. If your hair isn’t splitting, you can hold on to it, while it grows out…cutting a little at a time. My hair didn’t change textures, but it was breaking. Lauren, it sounds like your in the same boat as I was. And it is always, always associated with the use of heated appliances on damp hair. Usually bubble hair happens to people who are doing a lot of styling to their hair at home. One day she may have them just a little hotter than usual: that might be just enough to cause bubble hair, and for the affected hair to break off.Īlthough the sufferer usually claims that her hair was perfectly normal until she changed the hair product she was using, further enquiry always uncovers a history of increased or excessive cosmetic treatments. Eventually the hair breaks off, either at or somewhere near a bubble.Įvery woman who has used curling irons knows that they work better on some days than others. The boiling water softens the keratin of the cortex then the steam from the boiling water expands and forms tiny bubbles inside the hair.
If a hot curling iron is put on to wet hair, it boils the water inside the hair.
These operate somewhere between 120 and 180 ☌, roughly speaking. Invariably, bubble hair is caused by some kind of heating appliance, most often curling irons. Then all at once they noticed tiny ‘bubbles’ in the ends of their hair. People will tell you that their bubble hair ‘just happened’, quite suddenly, after they had been doing the same things to their hair for a long time. It’s best to snip the hair above the white dot, and then proceed to get your moisture/protein balance in check. The problem is, if left to its own devices, the broken off hair (the end with the white dot) may split or cause adjacent hairs to tangle up. Sometimes, the hair is bent at a hard or 90 degree angle at the white dot, which inevitably results in breakage. The hair is so fragile at the white dot, that even the slightest tug results in breakage below the dot. It is a classic sign of physical and/or chemical over-treatment of the hair. It looks like a tiny white bead on the hair, and inevitably results in hair breakage. It occurs when there is an explosion of the cortex at a single point on the hair strand. This white dot syndrome is also known as bubble hair, or more formally, Trichorrhexis nodosa. I guess the color and heat damage proved to be too much for my fine strands. In fact, two years ago, white dots could be found on the tips of my colored strands. Yes, as some of you stated, white dots can signify a lice problem (ewwww!!!), but in this particular case, it’s the result of heat damage. Yesterday we were talking about white dots… Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Email
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