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Everything You Need to Know About Haircuts (When You Have Extensions)

It’s no secret that regular haircuts help your hair in a variety of ways. From preventing split ends to promoting healthier hair growth, it’s important to see your stylist a couple times of a year for a trim. This is a service that most women avoid… because there’s a common misconception that your biyearly trims aren’t helping your hair truly grow (even though they are!)

However, when you have hair extensions – trims and haircuts become even more important. So today we’re going to bust some of the myths about haircuts and help you have longer, healthier hair in 2025. 

Join our ‘No Bad Hair Days’ in 2025 New Year’s Resolution! It’s our goal to help women have healthier, longer, and thicker hair. If you’d like to learn more about how we can help your hair journey, book a consultation with our founder Christina today. 

The Benefits of Getting Regular Haircuts

Let’s start with the basics. First, we’re going to touch on some of the benefits of regular haircuts (or trims) and then we’ll dive into why haircuts are the most important part of your hair extension service

Prevent Split Ends

We get split ends when our hair becomes dry, brittle, and frayed. This is often caused by excessive heat styling, chemical treatments, weather exposure, and poor haircare practices. These various practices weaken the hair shaft and cause the ends to split apart. 

There’s no ‘gluing’ split ends back together. The only way to truly ‘fix’ your split ends is with a haircut. That’s where regular trims can actually help your hair! 

By coming into the salon for a regular hair trim, you’re preventing split ends from getting worse, which helps the natural health of your hair overall. By getting regular haircuts you can protect your hair from more breakage over time. 

Promote Hair Growth

As well as preventing further hair damage, regular haircuts can also promote hair growth. Regular haircuts can help stimulate hair growth by removing your dead ends. A good haircut should improve blood circulation to your scalp, which will also promote hair growth. 

One thing to note is that regular haircuts won’t make your hair grow any faster – but they will help you promote hair growth and grow naturally healthier hair. 

Improve Hair Texture

Dry, dead ends make hair texture more difficult to manage. They also make your hair appear more dull and lifeless. All the more reason to schedule regular haircuts at your salon. 

A regular haircut will improve your overall hair texture by removing those damaged, dry ends. You’ll walk out of the salon with healthy, silky smooth hair that’s easier to style and manage. 

Maintain Hair Shape

It doesn’t matter if you have long or short hair – regular haircuts can help you maintain your hair shape and style. Your hair might grow at different speeds in the front of your hair versus the back or underneath. Which can cause your hairstyle to look out of shape. A regular haircut will ensure that your style is never lost. 

A good haircut should always enhance your natural style and beauty – making it easy to look your best! Whether you’re rocking curtain bangs or keeping it simple to promote more hair growth, every woman can benefit from a regular trim to improve their hairstyle. 

Hair Cuts and Your Hair Extensions

When you have hair extensions, haircuts become even more vital. With hair extensions, you’ll already have regular maintenance appointments every 6-8 weeks (depending on your hair growth and hair fall). During these appointments, we’ll remove your extensions, comb out the hair fall, and reapply them. This service will always be followed by a haircut. 

Blending and cutting your extensions is the final step of any extension appointment – and the most important step! This, of course, ensures that your hair stays healthy and free from breakage and dead ends. But it also helps ensure that your hair extensions blend naturally with your hair. 

At Olivia Christensen Salons, we believe your hair extensions should look natural. This is always done with our unique blending and application techniques. 

So while instinctively you might be avoiding those regular haircut appointments because you want your hair to be longer… that’s actually doing more harm to your natural hair! To maintain long, healthy hair, you should always be coming in for regular maintenance and haircuts.

Make sure to add a self-care at the salon day to your calendar – and you’ll be sure to have long, healthier, and beautiful hair all year long. 

If you have more questions – make sure to read our frequently asked questions here. And if you’re ready to join us in making 2025 the year of “No Bad Hair Days”, book your consultation with our founder Christina today

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