7 Hair myths that ruin your hair

• It's good to wash your hair daily: This one is a popular one, almost all of us know it's wrong, except when you have straight, thin and oily hair. I won't spend much time discussing this one, but lets give a brief explanation. Hair is fibber, like wool for example, and just like wool, the more you wash it the worse it looks, with the difference that hair is a live-fibber, which means it regenerates. For normal hair, it's best to wash it 3-4 times a  week, and for long, curly, or dry hair, 2 times a  week is enough.
• Brushing your hair a lot will make it shinier: All of us have heard about the 100 strokes before bed, right? Well I'm pretty sure quite a lot of you have also heard the reason why this is actually bad. Multiple strokes, especially on wet hair can brake it, disturb the roots and make the scalp produce  a lot more oil. Brushing has it's good sides though, 10-20 gentle strokes (for people with curly or wavy hair like me, might need more) will help disturb the oil from the roots to the ends, in result making your hair shinier and softer.
• Cutting your hair often will make it grow faster: Cutting your hair contributes in no way whatsoever  it may only improve the condition of your hair, in case you have had split ends, but other than that it doesn't affect the hair in any other way.
• If you have oily hair you shouldn't use conditioner: Conditioner has nothing to do with the level of oil in your hair. Conditioners only provide vitamins and minerals to your hair that improve the way it looks and feels. Oiliness is only influenced by hormones, diet, and stress levels. Though, if you do have oily hair, apply the conditioner in your ends, because generally, oily hair tends to be dry and easily damaged in the ends, the roots are being protected by the oil, but remember, oil does not provide nutrition to your hair, so don't skip the conditioner.
• Changing your hair shampoo and conditioner is good for the hair: It is true that in time, if you keep using the same shampoo it will stop having a big impact on your hair, but changing it every week is not good either. Different shampoos contain different chemical makeup and changing it too often can disturb your hair a lot. It's best to change your brand of shampoo and conditioner every time you run out of the current bottles.
• If you pluck a gray hair, two will grow in its place: Plucking gray hair won't cause you to grow two more, but it will irritate the scalp, a better solution would be to use a  small amount of dye on it, or just dye your whole hair. If you don't want to do that, you could just get one of these colouring shampoos, it would be enough if you don't have that many gray hairs.
• Rinse and repeat: That will only dry out your hair, deprive it of it's natural flexibility, shine and softness. For oily and straight hair, it could be a  good thing, but for any other type, it's more destructive than you can imagine. I had this problem, I was washing my hair 2-3 times with shampoo under the shower, and it was always frizzy and way too big. nothing would make it better, but once I started washing it only once with shampoo, my life became so much easier. A simple trick for finding out if you should wash again is to run your fingers through your hair after you've rinsed it, if it squeaks a little bit, then it's clean enough.