Hair edges (or baby hairs) add a special kind of beauty to any hairstyle.
They fall off, and it feels like your styles don’t look as good as they used to.
If that’s your current ordeal, keep reading.
This post will provide tips on how to grow edges in 2 weeks naturally, depending on how fast your hair responds to growth boost.
First off though, here are a couple of likely reasons why your edges are no longer growing.
Why are my edges not growing?
If you want to grow your edges fast, you need to first identify why they are not growing or stopped growing.
Here are a few things that could damage hair edges:
1. Hair Products Overuse
It is ironic that hair products that are meant to help your hair growth might be damaging instead.
This happens when you use them too often.
Hair gelling products (edge control, for example) contain alcohol and other drying agents that help them hold your edges in place.
When you use them often, it causes your fragile hair edges to dry out and ultimately fall off.
Products used for chemical hair processes also contain ingredients that are good for hair only in mild quantities. So you might want to rethink before using relaxers more often than every three months.
2. Tight Hairstyling
Braids are a quick example of tight hairstyles.
Tight hairstyles look good and last longer but they are not so good for your edges.
They apply tension to your hairline so much that you may feel a headache at times.
While you may easily get rid of the headache using a painkiller, the pulling effects that the style has on your hairline remain, and when it happens too often, your hairline starts to recede.
When you make braids or other tight styles, ensure that your hairstylist isn’t pulling your front hair too tight.
3. Hair Accessories
Some hair accessories can also damage your hair edges.
For example, when you use a shower cap, the elastic material at the end pulls on your hairline and this can cause edges loss because hair edges are fragile.
Wigs with tight bands can also have a similar effect.
Although hair accessories are not bad, when they are too tight and you leave them on for a long time, your edges may have to pay.
4. Sleeping Without Protective Styling
Wearing protective hairstyles before sleeping does more than prevent your hair from looking rough the next morning.
It protects your hair by reducing the friction between your hair and your cotton bedsheets.
You should also choose the right protective hairstyle to prevent your edges from being further damaged.
Protective hairstyles that put tension on the hairline are definitely a no. So you might want to replace hair caps that have elastic bands for a silk scarf or covering.
5. Overuse of Heat Tools
Heat tools are useful for stretching curls, controlling frizz, or drying hair.
But when you use them repeatedly without allowing your hair to regain lost moisture, it causes heat damage that leads to dryness.
When your hair is dry and weak, it would easily snap and that includes especially your edges.
Those are bad hair habits that cause loss of edges. Now, here are some factors that you have little or no control over:
6. Genetics
Research has shown that genetic factors not only influence how fast your hair grows but it affects your hair thickness and fullness.
Hence, it is reasonable that some people naturally have fuller edges than you do. If you do not have the genetic advantage, all hope is not lost; you can still grow your edges!
7. Aging
Nearly everyone experiences a reduction in hair growth with aging.
The full, thick hair of a young adult becomes thin with time because hair strands get smaller.
The rate of hair growth is also expected to slow down.
It is a natural and irreversible process and that could affect your edges if you’re way past middle age.
8. Hormones
Some hormone plays may also affect your hair edges.
When your level of estrogen drops due to various reasons, it increases androgen production.
Androgen hormones are responsible for shrinkage in hair follicles, which results in hair loss.
Hence an imbalance in your hormones might just be the reason why you’re losing your edges.
Now, here are smart ways to grow your edges fast naturally.
How to Grow Edges in 2 Weeks Naturally
There are a few tips that have helped many women to grow their edges fast and they can help you too.
Here they are:
1. Regular Massages
While the idea of massaging your scalp might sound weird and new to you, it is one of the easiest ways to regain or grow your edges.
Scalp massages increase the flow of blood to your follicles and this would stimulate hair regeneration or growth.
To massage your scalp for edge growth, apply hair oil to your hairline and gently massage it.
In time, your follicles would produce new hair growth and you can rock your edges as much as you want to.
2. Regular Moisturizing
When you moisturize your hair, always ensure that you do not neglect your edges.
It is the most fragile hair on the head and you definitely don’t want it to suffer from hair dryness.
Dry, unmoisturized edges are very prone to falling off at any little tension.
If you want to grow your edges in as fast as 2 weeks, start moisturizing and massaging your hairline every day.
3. Deep Conditioning
Deep conditioning promotes healthier, stronger hair.
When you deep condition with your front hair in mind, it will make your edges thicker and fuller.
Especially if you still have little edges but they are not as full as you’d like, deep conditioning will help the few strands on your hairline to retain length so that they become full in no time.
4. Stop Picking on Edges
If you enjoy subconsciously playing with your edges as much as I do, you (we) have to stop.
Edges are fragile, so pulling or twisting them at every chance we get can eventually damage ’em.
Instead, handle your edges with care and be more intentional about protecting them.
Apart from keeping your hands away from your edges, you also need to use less force when combing or styling your hair edges.
When making tight hairstyles, you can tell your hairstylist to leave out the edges.
5. Limit Heat Styling
Since heat tools can destroy your edges, an important tip to grow them back and fast it to limit heat styling.
Avoid using heat tools like hair straighteners, curling irons at least for the mean time.
If you do need to use them in future, always set them on a low setting and apply a heat protectant to your edges first.
6. Eat Right
Yup, you saw that right!
Eating the right kinds of food would boost your hair growth generally and this extends to your hairline.
Now you may wonder, what sort of food is considered ‘right’ for the rapid growth of hair edges?
Well, it depends on the nutritional content of the food.
Deficiency in nutrients can surely affect your hair growth so you should eat foods that are rich in helpful nutrients such as biotin, iron, riboflavin and vitamins D and B12.
Examples are eggs, fatty fish, berries, and sweet potatoes.
Edges Regrowth Products
Here are a few edges regrowth products that have worked for many:
1. Luv Me Care Biotin Hair Growth Oil
This product is a hair serum that boosts edge growth (your edges get thicker and longer) and prevents hair loss and thinning.
Good thing is it can be applied on all hair types.
3. Boldify 3X Biotin Hair Thickening Serum
This is a leave-in conditioner that provides nutrients that promote strand retention and inhibit hair breakage.
It also contains biotin which helps to strengthen your edges.
3. CB SMOOTHE Edge Growth Oil
It is a hair growth oil that is made with black castor oil which helps to moisturize the hair.
This product also soothes and repairs your edge by stimulating new hair growth.
What oil helps grow edges back?
Essential oils are distilled extracts from plant compounds that serve different purposes depending on the plants they’ve been extracted from.
Here are three types of essential oils that can help grow your edges back.
1. Rosemary Oil
This oil is extracted from the Rosemary plant; it is known for its ability to improve circulation and promote nerve growth. Now you might wonder, ‘what effects would Rosemary oil have on my edges’?
When you apply Rosemary oil on your edges, it boosts the supply of blood to your hair follicles which prevent hair loss due to hair dryness. Hence, you can apply some of it on your fingers and massage your edges with it.
You can also count on Rosemary oil to heal tissue and nerve damage and this helps restore hair growth.
2. Black Castor Oil
Although there aren’t enough scientific studies on black castor oil, castor oil is a natural humectant that promotes hydration.
When you use black castor oil on your edges, it keeps it moisturized and this protects your hair from dryness.
Castor oil can cause mild irritation to the eyes and skin so it is only safe only in small quantities. You should ensure that you do not use too much of it at once if you choose to apply it to your edges.
3. Lavender Oil
Lavender oil is a common essential oil that many people love for its nice scent and hair health benefits.
Apart from this common use, lavender oil also boosts your edges’ thickness and growth.
You can apply it directly to your scalp and massage or you mix it with your hair products.
Summary
Losing your edges can be frustrating but you might even be causing it without knowing.
Look out for possible reasons why your edges are not growing and avoid them.
Growing your edges may take a while, but the tips above will help you regain your edges quick and flaunt your beautiful hairstyles.