What are Protective Styles?

What are protective styles?
Protective styles are any hair styles that protect your ends.  For example wearing you hair in a bun, French Roll or wigs.  Anything that keep the ends of you hair from rubbing on the back of your clothes, chair or anything else that may be damaging to your hair. 

Do protective styles really make your hair grow?
No, protective styles do not make yor hair grow.  What they do is protect the ends of your hair so that you can retain your growth.

Are weaves protective styles?
Some will disagree with me on this but I say no.  When you have a weave the wefts of weave are sown into the cornrolls on your own hair.  You hair is constantly being pulled by the weight of the weave hair and the stress you put on you natrual hair styling the weave.  Also you are more likely to neglect you own hair while wearing a weave.  Before I statred my hair journey I wore my hair in weaves for about 6 month.  I did not notice any real length retention, also my natural hair was damages and thinned out in some areas.

How often should I wear protective styles?
As often as you can.  The more you protect the ends of your hair the more length you'll retain.  Also your hair will look and feel healthier.  After wearing my hair in braids under my wigs for about six or seven month my grew hair about 3 inches.  Now my hair grows about 3 inches every 6 months. The difference was I was able to retain all three inches of grow and my hair was much longer.

What is the use of growing my hair out if I always have to keep it up in protective styles?
You don't always have to keep it in protective styles.  Just think of it like this, if you keep your hair in protective styles when you not doing any thing special like, grocery shopping, working out or just hanging around the house, when you really want to show it off, there will be alot more of it to show off:)