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TikTok user Audrey Victoria is here to help out those of us with longer hair, and believe us, we are more than grateful for the assistance.

Brushing your hair should not have to be this difficult. While many of us have taken the time to pull a brush through a knot before, this is actually very bad for the hair, whether you realize it or not.

Photo: flickr/Marco Verch Professional Photographer

Now, this problem can become a thing of the past. Audrey is here to show us how to use the brush in the proper manner. As with many things in life, this one boils down to whether you can get the angles right.

“Stop brushing your hair like this,” writes Audrey, as she showcases the struggle that many of us have been forced to deal with.

The horizontal brush that she is using struggles to get through a tangle in her lovely hair, bringing us back to all of the times that it happened to us.

Photo: flickr/audreyvictoria_

Instead of continuing to struggle, she decided to turn the brush in a vertical direction. Wouldn’t you know it, the brush made its way straight through without any further difficulty.

“Do this instead, no yanking and no breakage,” she says.

Photo: flickr/audreyvictoria_

The comments were full of agreement, which is rare for any form of social media these days. This goes to show just how challenging combing one’s hair can be, especially when you are not using the proper hack. Of course, the contrarians made sure to mention that this would not work for those who have curly hair but that should go without saying.

Watch the TikTok below:

@audreyvictoria_

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