What people don’t realize here is that ripping your hair from the roots is extremely bad for it. It’s much healthier to work from the bottom and slowly go through the knots. It’s also much less painful. For the confused people, you grab a part of your hair a few inches from the bottom, start brushing, and keep moving up. The point of this is that it’s much healthier for your hair and won’t damage it in the long run. And it takes the same amount of time as brushing normally if you do it right.