How to snip away your split ends at home! Woman goes viral with easy hack showing how to ‘bend’ the hair half-way down to reveal damage strands before cutting them off
- A TikTok creator shared the split-end-solving hair hack she ‘can’t stop doing’
- The technique involves exposing damage by bending sections of hair to cut
- The method she’s been doing for 5 years gained more than 150,000 likes
A woman has gone viral on TikTok with a handy technique showing how to get rid of split ends at home.
American TikTok user Meyin Leda explained in the video she discovered the technique five years ago and hasn’t looked back.
The method involves sectioning off the hair into 1in-wide sections.
The section is then ‘bent’ over a finger, causing the split ends in the sections to spring upwards and making them easy to cut.
American TikTok user Meyin Leda explained in the video she discovered the technique five years ago and hasn’t looked back
The method involves sectioning off the hair into 1in-wide sections. The section is then ‘bent’ over a finger, causing the split ends in the sections to spring upwards and making them easy to cut
The idea proved a hit with followers, who said it would save them a trip to the hairdressers. The video has racked up 150,000 likes.
The video, a close up of Meyin’s hair, starts with her combing through her brunette locks to make sure there are no tangles.
She then bending it to make any damaged split ends stand up.
Meyin then picks up some professional hair-cutting scissors, to avoid any further damage, and uses them to lightly chop away any damaged hairs.
Taking a strand of her hair, she carefully combed it to measure exactly how much she wanted to cut
Then, she took the hair between her fingers and bent it slightly so that any damaged hair would stick up
After cutting one section, she simply moves onto the next part.
Meyin swears by the technique for keeping her long shiny locks feeling bouncy and healthy.
In the video, she wrote: ‘A hack I started doing 5 years ago that I can’t stop doing now.’
One commenter, worried it wouldn’t work on their hair texture, said: ‘What if my hair is curly and frizzy?’
Commenters were quick to praise the idea and some even shared how it had worked for them
To which Meyin replied saying the technique was suitable for any hair type: ‘You can straighten it and then do it, that’s what I also did in this video!’
Other commenters who had tried the cutting method elsewhere, chimed in to say they swore by the process too.
One person wrote, ‘I do this to get all the split ends. My hair has never been more shiny and healthier.’
Another said: ‘I went to a new stylist and she did this, and wow.’