Whether it’s noticing that your hair is turning gray or realizing that your wrinkles aren’t just from sleeping with your face smushed into the pillow, many of us have panicked at the prospect of aging, desperate for any “cure” or fix-it within reach. For some, that may mean shelling out the big bucks for fancy department store creams whereas for others that may mean buying into commonly perpetuated anti-aging tips. To help you out, we got to the bottom of five pieces of anti-aging advice that aren’t really so helpful after all:
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5. Brushing your hair 100 times will make it shine.
It’s a common old wives’ tale that brushing your hair 100 strokes a day will make it shinier, longer and thicker. It’s so simple that anyone would want to try it out in an attempt to add shine to lackluster and thinning hair. But before you reach for the boar bristle brush, listen up. Trichologists say brushing hair that much could actually make hair break off, causing more of a thinning appearance if you excessively brush. On the other hand, moderate, light brushing does help keep your hair healthy and shiny by delivering nourishing oils from your scalp all the way down the hair shaft and helps stimulate blood flow.
