When Should You Trim Your Hair? The Signs Your Ends Need Love (So the Rest Can Thrive)

At Clean Gurl, we’re all about growing long, thick, glowing hair — from the *inside out*. Our hair-growth vitamins feed your strands the exact nutrients they crave so they can thrive, but even the healthiest hair needs a little upkeep on the outside too. Think of trimming as pruning a gorgeous plant: you snip off the sad bits so the whole thing explodes with new life.

So many of us grew up hearing “get a trim every 6–8 weeks or your hair will never grow.” Sweetie, that’s a myth. Trimming does **not** make your hair grow faster (growth happens at the scalp, always), but it *does* help you keep every inch you grow by stopping damage in its tracks.

Here’s exactly how to know when it’s time to book that appointment — no guesswork, just real signs your hair is waving a little white flag.

Clear Signs Your Ends Are Begging for a Trim

1. Split Ends or Fairy Knots
   You see those little white dots at the tips or tiny single-strand knots (especially if you’re curly/coily)? That’s damage screaming for help. Left alone, splits travel up the strand and force you to cut *way* more later.

2. Ends Look See-Through or Stringy
   Hold a section up to the light. If the tips look thin, wispy, or way lighter than the rest of your hair, the “bulk” of your length has already stopped there. Those longer stragglers are just old, over-it strands dragging the whole look down.

3. Tangles That Won’t Quit
   If your brush gets stuck every single time or you’re spending 20 minutes detangling the ends after every wash, the cuticle is rough and damaged. A clean trim = instant smoothness is back, baby.

4. Texture Feels Like Straw
   Run your fingers down to the ends. If they feel dry, brittle, or “crunchy” even when the roots and mid-lengths feel soft and hydrated, that’s a neon sign.

5. Your Style Falls Flat
   Curls won’t clump, straight hair looks limp at the bottom, or your ponytail looks skinny at the ends? Freshly trimmed hair bounces, shines, and holds every style like it’s supposed to.

Our Favorite Length-Retention Trick: The “Glow Point” Method

We took inspiration from the pros and made it Clean Gurl-approved.

1. Wash, blow-dry or straighten a section so you can really see lengths.  
2. Find where the thickest, healthiest “bulk” of your hair ends.  
3. Choose your Glow Point—just 1–3 inches past that bulk (be honest with yourself, queen).  
4. Dust or trim anything hanging past that point.

Boom—your hair instantly looks longer and thicker because everything is even and full at the new length. Wait for the bulk to catch up (usually 3–5 months with Clean Gurl vitamins speeding things along), then repeat. Most girls keep ½–1 inch of growth every time they do this instead of losing it to damage.

How Often Should You Actually Trim?

• Growing long & taking our vitamins religiously? → Every 4–6 months or only when you see the signs above.  
• Heat styling, color-treated, or living your hot girl summer in the sun/chlorine? → Every 10–14 weeks.  
• Short styles or blunt cuts? → Every 6–10 weeks to keep the shape sharp.

Listen to your hair, not the calendar.

The Bottom Line

Trimming isn’t punishment — it’s self-care with scissors. When you remove the damage, the nutrients from your Clean Gurl vitamins can fully penetrate every inch you’re keeping, so your hair grows in stronger, shinier, and way less likely to break.

So next time someone says “you need a trim,” smile and ask yourself: “Do my ends look like they’re thriving?” If the answer is no, give them a little love-off. Your future length will thank you.

Ready to feed your hair what it actually needs to grow past every plateau? Thousands of Clean Gurls are waking up to thicker, longer hair in as little as 90 days. Come join us.