Ponytails are not as harmless as you think, as they pull on your scalp even if they’re not too tight. If you have long hair and must pull it up, do it as few times as you can and opt for loose grips instead. The best thing to do is to leave it down, though!

This hair-do is a double-edged sword. The excess of products used to maintain the spike might have caused damaged to your hair and the fact that 80s mohawks meant pulling the hair up constantly, the style kept tugging on your scalp too; this can, of course, cause hair fall.

Many products can damage your hair, and this includes oil-based pomades, as their base is grease or petroleum and practically insoluble in water. This means that, in order to wash out the pomade from their hair, 50s men would strip all the natural oils of their hair doing so.

For this reason, beware of any products you use on your hair, especially if they’re oil-based!

Heat is your hair’s enemy, as it can singe your hair, cause it to dry out and become frizzy, give it a dull appearance, create split ends and cause it to break often.

For this reason, no matter how popular this trend was (or is), the best thing is to avoid heat anywhere near your hair!

With the aid of a relaxer, men would loosen up their curl and add a glossier look to them, as if they’d just wash their hair. This consisted of two applications: the softener or ‘rearranging cream’ that loosened hair and a solution that set the curls in a sort of perm.

The issue with the relaxer, of course, was its heavy chemical composition, which ended up damaging the hair.

The process of creating cornrows is painful, however, as it pulls tightly on the scalp. This particular type of hairstyle is heavily linked to traction alopecia, which is the phenomenon of gradual hair loss by pulling forced being applied to it .