Back from the Breakage: Hair Damage Repair Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe hair breakage and damage repair. Writers describe how the damage happened: platinum bleaching for a wedding, rainbow colour, box dye on a bad day, rebonding twice, a smoothing treatment that burned, forty years of perms, daily straightening irons, braids that came out with half the hair, ballet buns and hairspray, gel, elastics and hard brushes, and chlorine, salt water, desert sun and hard water. There is working out what was really going on — a stylist who asked the right questions, a microscope view of split shafts, a thyroid condition, an allergy to colour — and the unglamorous repair: cutting it off, gentler washing, protein treatments and the stiffness that comes from too many, hot oil overdone, loose styles and soft fabrics at night, and learning to brush properly at seventy-one. Writers are honest that damaged lengths do not heal, that the real fix is growing new hair and protecting it, and that regrowth was not always what they expected. Later chapters cover men's hair, curls that stopped coming back, going silver without going brittle, a hairdresser with broken hair, a wig that hid rather than fixed, and the big cut.

Who it's for

For anyone whose hair snaps, frizzes or will not grow past a certain length, people recovering from bleach or chemical straightening, curly and coily hair wearers, and the stylists who see it daily.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 233 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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