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Finding broken hairs on your clothes, short flyaways that won’t lie flat, ends that look frayed and dull — hair breakage is frustrating, and easy to mistake for hair loss. The good news: breakage is damage to the hair fibre itself, and with the right care it can almost always be improved and prevented.

Here’s why hair breaks, the main causes, and how to repair and protect the fibre.

This is the first thing to get clear, because it changes everything you do next. Hair loss (shedding) means whole hairs falling from the root — you’d see a little white bulb at the end. Razbijanje means the strand snaps somewhere along its length, leaving short broken pieces with no bulb. Loss starts at the scalp; breakage is about the condition of the fibre. This post is about breakage. If you think you’re shedding from the root instead, that’s a different concern worth assessing separately.

Each strand is built like a cable. The outer layer, the povrhnjica, is made of overlapping scales that protect the inner core. When the cuticle is smooth and intact, hair looks shiny and resists damage. When those scales lift, crack or wear away, the inner fibre is exposed — and that’s when hair becomes dry, rough, prone to split ends and liable to snap. Most breakage is, at its root, cuticle damage.

Over-washing or harsh products

Stripping the hair of its natural oils with harsh shampoos or very hot water leaves the fibre dry and brittle. Matching your washing routine to your hair is part of prevention — see how often to wash your hair.

Izpostavljenost okolja

Sun, salt water, chlorine and seasonal extremes all wear at the cuticle over time. We cover this in detail for poletje in zima.

Damaged hair can’t be biologically “healed” — the strand is not living tissue — but its appearance, strength and feel can be significantly restored and protected with the right care:

• Restore the cuticle. Restructuring and conditioning treatments smooth the cuticle, improve strength and reduce the look of split ends.
• Replenish what’s lost. Hair benefits from care that helps reinforce its protein and moisture balance — the two things damage depletes.
• Reduce the stressors. Lower heat, gentler brushing, looser styles, sun and chlorine protection.
• Trim split ends. Once a strand splits, no product reseals it permanently — a trim prevents the split travelling further up.
• Be gentle with wet hair. Detangle with a wide-tooth comb, from the ends upwards.

SIMONE TRICHOLOGY's Bio-Repair, Moisture & Fibre Restructuring range is built specifically to restore and protect the hair fibre — smoothing the cuticle and supporting strength and moisture.

Most breakage is cosmetic and responds to better fibre care. But if hair is breaking suddenly and severely, breaking very close to the scalp, or comes with scalp symptoms or hair loss from the root, it’s worth having it assessed — occasionally breakage reflects an underlying issue rather than simple fibre damage.

Telling breakage apart from shedding — and working out what’s damaging your fibre — is the key to fixing it. Our spletna klinika za lase offers a free, no-commitment pre-assessment: a few targeted questions about your hair, and personalised guidance on what’s going on and how to address it.