If I want my hair to grow, why cut it?

It Is Easy to Grow Out Your Length If You Have a Plan
Todd Suttles, Noland Suttles Salon

The number one, most misunderstood fact of all hair cutting history is the belief that if you want your hair to grow, you should stop cutting it. And here is why: hair is a fiber, it unravels on the end. The best analogy I can use is that of a string. We all know when you cut a blunt end on the string and give it a short period of wear & tear, the end begins to unravel. When this happens with hair, we call it split ends. There is NOTHING that will repair, or prevent split ends. Split ends is just what hair does. If you purchased a product that promises to repair split ends, you have been had.

What you don't realize is that as the hair splits on the end, small microscopic pieces of it break off. I am sure you have seen a person that "won't cut her hair because she wants it to get longer". For years she has been not cutting, and it stays at the same length getting fuzzier as each year passes. It is breaking off the ends as quickly as it grows; net length accumulation is ZERO!

Q. Why does my hair feel lighter after a hair cut?    -It is not the weight of the hair that has been removed, it is the absence of tiny little tangles between hairs on the end caused by split ends getting stuck together.

Q. Why does my hair grow faster right after I get a haircut?   -It does not. What is actually happening is you have stopped the microscopic breakage of split ends and are accumulating length.

Q. So then, How DO I grow my hair longer?  -That requires three things: 1) never cut more than it has grown since the last cut. 2) cut frequently enough that the split ends are on the tip ends, not up into the hair shaft; 3) find a stylist who knows how to transition your style as best as possible while it grows all the while remembering and following the long term plan.