YOU perm, apply gel and other hair control wax or dough and frequent hair color, these kind of hair styling can wreak your tresses in the long run.

With so many hair cosmetics around - highlights to lowlights, chemical perms to chemical straightening, blow drying, braiding, and bleaching – hair treatment has a direct impact on how healthy or unhealthy hair will look in few months time.

Split ends, lack of luster, or hair breakage, our styling habits play havoc on the one thing we're trying to capture - beauty.

Hair  consists of three layers - the inner fibers make up the medulla; the cortex surrounds the medulla; and the cuticle is the outer layer that protects the inner, more sensitive components from damage.

Each hair grows about 1/4 inch every month and it  keeps growing for up to six years. Then as part of the natural cycle of hair, it will fall out and make way for a new hair.

How long your hair is depends on how long your growing cycle lasts. If it's only two years instead of six, your hair will naturally peak at a shorter length. The same goes for the thickness of your hair: Thick hair grows out of large follicles; smaller, narrower follicles produce thinner hair.

Worse, for men and women alike, a person goes bald if the hair follicles that produce a new hair shrink in size or become inactive.

The circle of life for a hair depends on a lot of things, and styling is one of them: The more you style, the more you change the natural makeup of your hair. And although the amount and intensity of styling a person's hair can take depends on genetics, the texture of your hair, and its coarseness, less is always more when it comes to hair health.

Like the lost of nature’s beauty and wonders, physical beauty also backfires if you always abuse it. Bleaching, perming, highlights and coloring, flat iron and blow-drying, ponytails and braids and over-shampooing, all of these can damage your hair and make it look dull, dry and brittle.

One hair stylist in Boston shared to WebMD the secret to bring back the good health of your hair and help close the hair cuticle. Laary Baron of Spa Christine said the hair needs to keep its pH balance at 4.5 -- that's the level at which your hair will look its best.

Here are some of his advices:

* Always put product on your hair before you style with heat. By putting the product on before you style, you're heating the product, not the hair.

* Use extensions and cornrows wisely. If extensions or cornrows are too tight, it can damage your roots by causing too much tension. Extensions can be glued in and then removed by using baby oil. The secret is not to overdo it. Hair is strong, but it does have a breaking point.

* Cut your losses. When your hair is really damaged and dry, amputate, just cut it off and start over.