Dull household scissors will damage your ends. We recommend trimming your hair every 3 to 6 months as general hair upkeep, and this will keep both single strand knots and split ends in check.ĭon’t yank or pluck single strand knots! If you trim them off, use sharp hair clippers. but we think you have better (less frustrating) ways to spend your time. If you have a lot of single strand knots, you can either trim them off, or just put up with them. What can I do about my single strand knots? The knots easily catch on each other, causing more tangles and breakage. This problem isn’t the result of bad haircare, but it can damage your hair. Sometimes individual hairs curl in such a way that they tie themselves into knots. Curly, coily, and kinky hair types have an oval-shapes follicle that causes hair strands to weave and loop around each other.
