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Are You Using the Wrong Hairbrush?
The one tool most of us use once – if not multiple times a day, but don’t give nearly the correct amount of credit (or blame) to is the hairbrush. Be honest, when was the last time you actually thought about your hairbrush? It’s no secret that choosing the right brush plays an integral role in how any given hairstyle will turn out. Yet the tool doesn’t really seem to fit in the conversation when talking about keeping our hair shiny, healthy and growing.
Finding the right hairbrush for your hair type may sound like the most unnecessary task ever, but it could be the game changer you’re looking for to start retaining more length. While there is a surplus of hairbrush choices on the market, there are only a few that are targeted towards everyday detangling purposes. This fact steers us far away from styling tools, such as round brushes and teasing brushes, and narrows our search down to a few recommendations to get you in the right direction.
Coarse Straight/Wavy Hair
Although the The Tangle Teezer Smoothing Tool is described as a blow-drying hairbrush on the Tangle Teezer website, this tool is our secret to smoothing coarse straight hair types even without heat! Because the stiff bristles are so far set from each other, it mimics the benefits of using a wide-tooth comb with the added efficiency of a paddle brush-like design. We recommend angling the brush diagonally to your hair, so the built-in tension of the bristles can slide through knots with ease leaving you with smooth and shiny locks.
Fine Straight/Wavy Hair
Have you already noticed the absence of your beloved paddle brush or boar bristle brush on this list? That’s because there are many more advanced options out there, that offer specific placement and design of the bristles, ensuring less wear and tear of the texture of the hair strand and more focus on detangling. However, if they work for you, that’s great! The Tangle Teezer Fine & Fragile brush in particular offers two-tiered soft-flex teeth that ensure that it glides from root to tip, without snapping off any of those precious fine hair strands.
Coarse Curly/Kinky Hair
“The design with the flexible bristles and the fact that this brush itself is bendable, ensures effortless and smooth detangling. This makes the Wet Brush Shower Flex a terrific option to use for people with sensitive scalp as well. ”
Curly hair tends to demand being brushed when wet or damp, which is not the case for straight hair. Having said that, whether your hair is curly or not it is always in a more delicate state when wet, so the very best option is often thought to be a wide-tooth comb to detangle your curls. However, combing your thick curly hair can be too time-consuming and challenging to do effectively, so our suggestion is to try out the ever-so-flexible Wet Brush Shower Flex.
Fine Curly/Kinky Hair
“Super soft bristles makes it feel almost like your giving yourself a head-massage. As a tip for busy people – if you’re carrying your brush with you during the day, make sure you take a break, even if only a few minutes, to brush your hair focusing on the scalp area. Sounds very superficial, I know, but our scalps contains many sensitive nerves, so stimulating this area calms and de-stresses our mood. ”
When detangling curly hair, the essential characteristic of the hairbrush should, in fact, be ultimate flexibility to avoid breakage. The Brushworks HD Honey Comb Hair Brush offers super soft bristles to protect your fine strands from excess manipulation while helping to add definition to your curls in the process. As a bonus, the unique honeycomb structure also allows for controlled heat distribution while blow-drying.