4 Reasons Why Your Nape Hair Is Breaking And What To Do About It

You can also wear clothes with materials such as silk or satin which are gentler on your ends if you want to wear your hair down without “restrictions” or changing up your style as well. Wool tends to be the harshest on our hair.

4.The Problem: Hair is kept at tension when doing updos which weakens it

We all know that there is nothing like a fabulous top bun or an immaculate updo. Not only do they make us feel regal when wearing them, but they are also protective styles that allow for us to keep our hair from rubbing against our clothing and in turn this allows us to retain length more easily.

But while updos and buns are great for this reason, they can become detrimental to the health of our nape section. Why? Because if we do our updos or buns too tightly, then the elasticity of your nape hair can decrease overtime resulting in breakage and less than satisfactory length retention.

The Solution: Wear your updos a bit looser than you would usually wear them. You can do this by pinning your hair up with bobby pins* instead of using hair elastic bands which will reduce a lot of the tension on your nape hair.

If you are not sure what is considered to be too much tension, here’s a test, to find out. Tug on the hair in that area just a tiny bit, if that tiny tug feels like someone is pulling your hair at full force, then there is way too much tension that is being applied there.

A lot of times we have a belief that in order for our updos, buns, etc. to look nice and last longer the edges have to be as tight as possible but that is simply not the case.

You do not have to change your whole look, but in order to reduce stress in your nape area, just make your updos loose enough without sacrificing your initial style.

Sleek updos or buns won’t do your hair much harm if worn once in a while but when used as a daily go-to style they could be a major reason fort nape breakage.

So with that said, I hope that these reasons have answered some of your nape questions and I hope these solutions can solve them!