You’ve been shampooing your hair wrong all your life, an expert warns

Abbey Yung, a beauty expert with a huge 734K followers on TikTok, claims that washing your hair in a certain way can make it stay less greasy for longer. She advises you to adjust the technique you use to shampoo it and swears by the result.

Her tips completely transformed her own long locks in six months.

Never shampoo tangled hair

According to Yung, the process of shampooing alone creates a tangle, so if you already have tangles, it is going to make you much more likely to experience hair breakage.

She suggests using a wide-toothed comb to brush hair before getting in the shower and applying hair products.

Make sure all of your hair is properly wet

If the hair is not properly wet, it is going to make it a lot more difficult to spread shampoo evenly throughout the whole scalp, which means that you won't be getting a proper even cleanse.

This will also cause you to use up more shampoo than you need, costing more money. Young suggests taking a shower head and working in sections over the scalp, flipping hair up and upside down, making sure each part of the scalp is fully wet.

Apply shampoo in the right spot

Make sure you are shampooing all over the scalp.

While washing her own hair, Yung works in sections around her head, massaging shampoo into the scalp. She rubs the product into the back of her head and the very underneath of her hairline.

Take care of the ends

The shampoo is designed for the scalp, not the ends of your hair. It can damage the ends by stripping moisture from them.

Yung explained:

The scalp is what needs to be cleaned, not the ends of the hair. The shampoo will actually run through the lengths and ends of the hair as you rinse it. The focus of the product application and massage should be on the scalp.

The expert shares more of her shampooing tips on her YouTube channel.

Sourced used:

- Express: ''You're shampooing wrong': Hair washing hack to stop greasiness 'makes hugest difference''