As when choosing hair care products, it's important to take your hair type into account when defining your styling routine. Thick hair has specific needs. Detangling it and brushing it in the right way, with the right brush, helps to care for and enhance your hair. Here's how.
Thick hair is characterized by its high density (which means the hair fiber has a large diameter) and its mass implantation on the scalp (which means there's a lot of hair per cm2). Two characteristics that make this hair sometimes difficult to tame. Prone to dry lengths, frizz and tangles, this type of hair needs an adapted detangling and brushing routine to reveal its full beauty. But first and foremost, it's important to choose a brush dedicated to thick hair. Choosing the right hairbrush is essential for optimal results. We tell you all about it.
Which brush for thick hair?
To smooth frizz, avoid tangles and care for lengths, it's important to choose a brush suited to thick hair. Recommended brushes include the detangling brush and the boar bristles brush.
Detangling brush
Detangling your hair not only helps prevent tangles, but also promotes blood circulation to the scalp. This gesture, essential for beautiful, healthy hair, should be carried out with a brush suited to your hair type. What's more, for precise, painless, breakage-free detangling, choose a brush with soft, multiple, tapered nylon fibers.
At Altesse Studio , our detangling brushes in the Beauté Collection are made from a biosourced nylon fiber and are interwoven with a unique technique that ensures "magical" detangling of the hair, and is available for thick or curly hair.
The brush in boar bristles
A true hair care product, the boar bristle brush is also a great ally for enhancing thick hair. This type of brush, whose fiber contains keratin (like your hair), has the ability to distribute natural oils perfectly from roots to ends. This nourishes the lengths, preventing them from drying out. As a result, your hair regains its softness, suppleness and shine with each brushing. And that's not all: the boar bristle brush also helps to smooth the hair fiber and eliminate frizz, while disciplining it. You'll also promote blood circulation to the scalp, facilitating hair regrowth and eliminating impurities accumulated throughout the day...
At Altesse Studio , our boar bristle care brushes from the Beauté Collection are of the highest quality and are available for thick or curly hair.
How to detangle and brush thick hair?
To regain its full beauty, your thick hair also needs to be brushed properly. To do this, you need to adopt a hair routine that includes two simple gestures: detangling (using your detangling brush) and brushing (using your boar bristle brush).
3 tips for detangling thick hair
- Use a detangling brush on wet or dry hair. Wet hair is more fragile when saturated with water.
- Detangle your lengths, starting at the tips and gradually working your way up to the roots.
- Detangle your hair at night, before going to bed. This prevents tangles and painful detangling when you wake up.
3 tips for brushing and conditioning thick hair
- Carefully brush dry hair with a boar brush. This is essential to distribute natural oils and nourish the hair fiber.
- Use the mythical 100 brushstrokes technique.
- Brush your hair morning and night. This provides complete, ultra-effective care.