We’ve all heard about the damage that heat does to hair, so much so that we buy heat protecting sprays before using blow dryers and curling irons. We’ve also all seen the results of fried hair, and we definitely want to avoid that happening to us. You may be wondering why heat damages hair and what exactly ‘damage’ means. In this article, we’ll discuss how heat is damaging to hair, what it means for your current head of hair and what you can do to reduce the effect of heat while using your digital flat iron.<\/p>\r\n

What Is Heat damaged Hair?<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

If you’ve ever smelled burning hair from your hairdryer or come across a clump of hair in your flat iron, you’ve noticed the effects of hair damage. While there are other ways to damage your hair, such as chemical treatments, heat damage is much more common, probably because using heated tools is much more common.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

If you’ve gone a bit overboard on the hot tools, you might find that your hair feels much coarser than usual and that it breaks much more quickly. It also looks dull and lifeless<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The result can range from a slightly frizzier texture to complete breakage and hair loss, and the more times you use heating tools on your hair, the more likely it is your hair will suffer severe damage.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What Does Heat Do to Your Hair?<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So why exactly does heat damage hair? To understand how heat damages your hair, you first need to understand the structure of the hair strand. Basically, a hair strand is made up of a protein called keratin \u2014 you’ll hear a lot about this later on in the article as well. Keratin is also the protein mainly found in nails.<\/p>\r\n