The Common Hair Myths That Are Ruining Your Hair

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The dirtier your hair is, the faster it will grow

Avoiding showers for longer hair is a fallacy that will only leave you with greasy hair and an unpleasant stench. 

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Plucking a gray hair makes more grow

Take solace in this broken idea if you're afraid of gray-hair contagion and won't pluck a stray.

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You should shampoo oily hair daily

Shampoo sulfates pull off more oil than your scalp generates, so using suds when your roots grow greasy is counterintuitive.

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Only women of color have coarse hair textures

The coarse, tight, curling texture is not just for darker skin. Hair texture is more scientific than skin tone.

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Trimming your hair makes it grow faster

Trimming your hair every four to six weeks reduces split ends but doesn't grow it. Master stylist and B2V Salon co-owner Steve Lococo tells Reader's Digest.

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Shampoos stop working after a while

This misconception says your hair will get used to a product and cease working. Very little evidence supports that. 

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Black hair is stronger than Caucasian hair

Despite feeling stronger and appearing thicker, coarse Black hair is really thinner.