Protective hair styles are simple hair styles that protect your hair ends. The reason why you would want to protect your hair ends is because your hair ends are the oldest and most fragile parts of your hair and if you are trying to grow long hair or just hair pass a certain point, it is important to protect you hair ends from the constant every day tugging and/or rubbing from fabrics.

Some examples of protective styles would be:

• Buns
• French Rolls
• Loose Ponytails
• Almost any updos

Protective hairstyles are one of the many was to see results in retaining hair.