1. Protective hairstyles help to reduce the manipulation that come from combing and brushing your hair regularly.
2. Protective hairstyles also reduce the need for use of curling irons and heat styling.
3. Protective hairstyles protect your hair from environmental factors like the sun and humidity.
4. Protective hairstyles don’t just help to preserve the health of your hair, they have also been proven to support hair growth.
5. Low manipulation protective styles like roller sets, braid outs and twist outs reduce regular manipulation of your hair even though the hair tips may still be exposed.
6. Complete protective styles like buns, French rolls and tucked styled keep the tips of your hair completely concealed.
7. Wearing your hair short (above your shoulders) is actually a protective hairstyle as the hair doesn’t rub against your clothing or even the back of chairs.
8. Protective hairstyles for short hair or less than shoulder length hair are Bantu knots, twists, braids and packing your hair in a bun.
9. Protective styles for natural hair like cornrows and buns help prevent knotting and friction between the hair fibres.
10. Wearing wigs, cornrows, braids and sew in weaves are protective styles that result in low manipulation and complete protection of your hair tips.
