Your hair goes through several changes as you age, and this can not only affect how it looks and feels, but also change the way that you need to take care of it in order to keep it healthy. As such, it is important to understand these changes if you want to keep your aging hair in good condition over the years.

How Aging Affects Your Hair

Aging hair can present numerous challenges because the effects of aging can result in it being weaker, while also requiring more frequent coloring and styling to maintain a particular shade or look. Some of the most common problems include:

• Loss of strength
• Reduced elasticity
  
• Thinning
• Dryness
  
• Frizz
• Split ends and snapping
  
• Grayin

While these issues alone are detrimental to the condition of your hair, they are often compounded further by efforts to minimize gray hair or add volume into thinning hair. This increased reliance of chemical treatments and aggressive styling wreaks havoc on hair strands that are already more fragile.

Aging hair also tends to suffer from dryness and frizz more often, because the hair's ability to maintain moisture is negatively affected, as is natural oil production.

Keeping Your Hair Healthy as You Age

So can you reduce some of these problems and improve the appearance and condition of your hair? Luckily, the answer is yes! By adjusting how you care for your hair over the years, you can address these changes and limit a lot of them.

The first step to consider is of course the products that you use. If your hair has started to experience a lot more dryness as you've aged, this is the ideal time to consider changing shampoos, conditioners, and any styling products

Products for dry hair are specifically good for this purpose, but it is also possible to supplement any preferred shampoo and conditioner combo with a good leave-in conditioner or with the use of a deep conditioning treatment. Products like this help to add more moisture into the hair after washing, preventing it from becoming dry and minimizing potential frizz too.

If your hair is becoming fragile and suffering from a lot of snapping and split ends, there are two things to consider here. The first is diet, and while a healthy, balanced diet is necessary for all people, it's even more important as you age because your hair follicles start to find it more difficult to create healthy hair. Ensure that you're getting plenty of protein and all the necessary vitamins and minerals to help your follicles function correctly.

The second consideration is product use though. Some reduction in strength will always occur in aging hair, and the use of protein treatments, and other products containing protein and amino acids is an effective way to make your hair significantly stronger with little time and effort.

Thinning and Hair Texture

One of the most problematic changes in aging hair is its propensity to thin out over the years. This can change how it looks and lead to a necessary change in styling to a new look that suits it better. You may also see some changes in hair texture like slight loss of natural curl or hair strands becoming finer and will need to be gentler with your hair.

Aggressive styling with techniques like teasing should be avoided to prevent your hair from snapping or being damaged.

Gray Hair

The most noticeable change that occurs in aging hair for many people, however, is graying. For some, this can be distressing, while others don't mind too much or even embrace it. If you do prefer to dye over your gray hair, this can result in needing to dye your hair fairly regularly to maintain its appearance, leading to increased damage and fragility.

To combat this, try to choose a hair color that is low-maintenance and not too damaging. In most cases, darker colors are the better choice for this if using at-home box products because they contain less ammonia and peroxide, allowing your hair to remain healthy despite coloring every 4–6 weeks.

Thickness and Length

Aging hair can be more difficult to grow and also tends to become thinner. As such, many people opt for shorter styles as they get older. If you would like to maintain longer hair though, this is definitely possible if you take care of it. Ensure that you use beneficial products and treatments to address problems like dryness and breaking.

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