Before talking about hair growth, it’s important to understand some basics. Hair is made of a form of protein. Hair grows from the roots. So, the oldest part of your hair will be the part at the ends- furthest away from your scalp. Hair is essentially dead. Once it has come out of your head, there is nothing you can do to improve the structure of the hair itself. However, there is a lot you can do to damage the hair. Once the damage has been done, repairs are limited. If the structure of the hair itself has been damaged, the repair to that particular part of the hair shaft is irreversible. You have to wait until the hair grows out more and cut off the damaged part or until the hair is replaced by a new hair (you will see soon this is a very long proposition). This is why a relaxer or a perm is really “permanent”. Once a perm alters the structure of a piece of hair, that particular piece will never be the same. The new growth will be “virgin”. Even the new growth of the same hair shaft.

Growing hair will require giving your body what it needs to produce healthy hair and not damaging that hair once it has grown.