Brushing your hair: when, how and why? Brushing is a beauty ritual that helps to maintain and enhance your hair's radiance, but it must also be carried out according to the rules of the art. Follow our brushing tips to optimize the health of your hair and scalp.
Why is brushing essential?
Meticulous, gentle brushing has many unsuspected benefits. First, it adds shine to your hair, flattening the cuticle and making your hair fiber reflect. Secondly, it stimulates blood circulation to the scalp - a necessary operation to provide the roots with all the nutrients they need for hair growth. Brushing also stimulates the sebaceous glands and distributes natural oils from root to tip - resulting in nourished, stronger, more supple hair. Finally, contrary to popular belief, brushing adds volume to fine hair.
When should you detangle your hair?
To detangle your hair effectively, there's no need to work like crazy on your knots - at the risk of breaking your hair fiber. With long or frizzy hair, detangling can often seem an insurmountable task. But there are a few tips to help you detangle efficiently and with respect for your hair.
First, detangle your hair every night before shampooing, and again after towel-drying in the shower.
Unlike brushing, detangling requires a different kind of brush - preferably made from nylon bristles. The Altesse Studio detangling brush from the Beauté Collection is the tool of choice for a high-performance, almost magical effect. Its secret lies in a unique bristling technique combined with biosourced nylon to detangle and remove knots painlessly and without breakage. Whether fine, normal, thick or curly, all hair types benefit from perfectly controlled detangling.
Start detangling with your brush, starting at the ends and working your way up to the roots. If you have thick hair, you can make the task easier by dividing the thickness in half. This first step will allow you to rough up the hair without damaging the fibers, and then finish with effective detangling with your brush.
When should you brush your hair?
As mentioned above, brushing requires different attention from detangling. For optimum results, this action should be carried out twice a day, morning and evening, for a session lasting at least two minutes.
- In the morning, brushing will set the hair in place: disciplining it, but also distributing the natural oils secreted during the night, giving it shine and softness.
- In the evening, this gesture not only removes the impurities accumulated during the day, but also massages and stimulates blood flow to the scalp, encouraging new growth.
The "100 brush strokes" ritual, correctly carried out, offers a doubly virtuous moment: that of care by distributing natural oils and nourishing the fiber, but also that of relaxation by delicately self-massaging the base of the skull.
Unlike untangling, brushing deserves a styling accessory made entirely from boar bristles 1st recut and piled with new techniques - like the Altesse Studio Collection Beauté care brushes. Their innovation avoids "thistle" piling, which limits the repairing action of boar bristles. All that's left to do is arm yourself with the miracle tool and choose the one that suits your hair texture: whether you prefer fine to medium hair or thick, curly hair, everyone has the right to their ideal brush.