How to Tease Hair Without Damage
How to tease hair or backcomb hair is actually pretty simple. It’s been around for quite a long time in various ways. Being used for beehives and other updos since the 1950s!
Teasing hair involves combing hair toward the roots as opposed to the ends. This is where the term “backcombing” comes from. The result of teasing hair is the creation of small tangles that help the hair to hold its place.
In this article, you’ll learn steps on how to tease hair as well as how to avoid damage with teased hair.
How to Tease Hair Without Damage
Before beginning the process of teasing hair, let’s make sure you have all of the tools that you’ll need:
- A boar’s bristle brush or a finer tooth comb to actually do the backcombing.
- Your standard comb to help you style your hair.
- Some clips to help keep the hair you aren’t teasing out of the way.
- Strong-Hold Hairspray to help hold the teased hair in place.
A few other things you should do in order to prepare for backcombing are:
- If you are going to want the length of your hair to be curled, do that before you begin the teasing process.
- If your hair is already curly or wavy, make sure it has been straightened by either a blow dryer or a flat iron. Teasing curly hair will result in tangles.
Steps to Teasing
- Section your hair so that the hair you are not backcombing is out of the way.
- Take a section of hair about an inch thick and hold straight up towards the ceiling.
- Grab your boar’s bristle brush or your fine tooth comb and gently comb your hair towards your scalp while holding the ends with your other hand.
- Make sure that the tangles you create have some resistance which gives the hair height.
- Do not brush or comb to harshly or you risk tearing your hair or getting the brush entangled in your hair.
- Once you finish a section, move on to the next section.
- You can repeat the steps if you don’t get the level of fullness that you’re looking for.
- Once complete, add some hair spray as well as some shine serum to smooth stray hairs.
Damage from Teasing
Teasing is not something that you should do to your hair often. Definitely save it for special occasions. I can cause damage to the hair with breakage and split ends. Here is a list of things you should keep in mind when you’re learning how to tease hair:
- Curly hair should never be teased unless it has been straightened first.
- Do not tease wet hair, ever!! Wet hair is always more fragile than dry hair. This is even more important when it comes to teasing.
- Limit the percentage of hair that is teased to a small section to decrease the amount of damage.
- Make sure your hair is cool before teasing. Do not tease it will it is still warm from blow drying or flat ironing.
Conclusion
Remember to save teasing for special occasions. When detangling teased hair, gently brush it out very carefully starting at the ends just as you’d normally detangle hair. Once you shampoo your hair, remember to deep condition your hair to counteract any damage that may have occurred. Now that you know how to tease hair, I hope that you will be wise and careful with this technique!
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