White or Gray Ends????

[rayne]

Yesterday I wore my hair down and I got a good look at my ends. In addition to a few split ends, some of the hairs seemed to be gray/white at the ends. I also noticed that a few hairs were bent and they were also white at the bent ends (like that was a pressure point or something). I hope you guys understand what I mean!! I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that maybe the strands that had gray/white ends, were strands that had broken off. Any other opinions?

 

[Tracy]

Been doing any heat styling lately?

The one and only time my hair ends were grayish or whitish colored was when I was frying them.

It doesn't have to be this but it's the first thing that comes to mind. It could also be build up from oils or a moisturizer that's sitting on the ends of the hair.

 

[rayne]

Tracy, you hit it right on the nose...or hairs!! That same day I did flat iron my hair, but that was the first time in over a month that I used heat. However, after thinking about your response, I remembered that my hair was damaged sometime late last year/early this year. I had been cutting off the damaged ends gradually, but stopped. I wanted to let the damaged hair grow longer and then cut it all off at once. So, I think that hairs that I saw were the damaged hairs that I never cut. Ahhhh, now I can sleep peacefully /images/graemlins/grin.gif Thanks dear!!

 

[MyHeavenlyFatherKnows]

I am resurrecting this thread and I want to ask another question: Do some of you with really healthy hair also have white ends!??!?.... I just can NOT believe my ends are this ridic on such a regular basis.... HELP!

 

[Solitude]

I just started reading Chicoro's book...she mentioned "gray ends" when her hair was weathered/ damaged. No personal knowledge about this myself, though.

I've had dry/ crispy ends from too much heat styling, but I've never seen gray or white ends.

 

[jerseygurl]

It's kinda like a tiny bulb like the ones you see when you shed. I have some like that and I believe it happened when I was getting Dominican blowouts I guess my hair doesn't need that much heat.

I usually snip them cause those ends are damaged and I'll keep dusting them till the healthy ends take over. HTH

 

[Quest4healthyhair]

I don't know about anyone else, but it sounds like split ends to me. Frayed ends tend to look white like you described. I could be wrong.

 

[Caramela]

I think it's dried out, damaged hair caused by either a heating appliance or a blow drier. I suggest a layered trim to remove them, laying off of the heat and upping your deep conditioning treatments

 

[MyHeavenlyFatherKnows]

I'm wondering if those of you that "have never seen them" dye your hair, like will a rinse cover them??

 

[victorious]

I don't know about anyone else, but it sounds like split ends to me. Frayed ends tend to look white like you described. I could be wrong.

I found some white spots mid-strand last week. When I pulled on the strand, the lower part broke off and left the new whitish end (that I snipped afterwards).

 

[ChocoKitty]

I've seen them on my ends before. I only notice them when my hair is straight. They show up when my hair is dry and has been rubbing against my sweater or something. If I
have mot had a protein treatment in a while it shows on my ends.