Taylor says the fast and straightforward check to know in case you’re coping with a hair reduce is to look at the strands of hair that fall out. “If the strands that fall out aren’t so long as the size of your hair and are a lot shorter, brittle, and reduce into a number of items or cut up, your hair is damaged,” he stated.

Fitzsimmons says different indicators of hair breakage are lack of sheen, head cut up, and visual texture variations. All of those can simply end result from an absence of hydration within the hair, which, as beforehand famous, is a significant factor in hair slicing.

If you’re undecided in case you are coping with shedding or slicing, Fitzsimmons recommends wanting on the misplaced hair to find out the trigger. “If you shed hair, you usually see a small bulb-like attachment on the backside of your hair strand that you do not see with a hair reduce,” he says. “That little bulb often exhibits that it got here instantly from the scalp, after mainly being thrown away.”