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Setting Hair and Electric Rollers

| September 18, 2012 | 0 Comments
Setting Hair and Electric Rollers

Demand for curly and wavy hair swings with the fashion pendulum. Rearranging naturally straight or wavy hair to be more wavy or curly became very popular about twenty years ago and shows no sighn of abating. The specific shape of your hairs is determined by two types of linkages of the protein molecules in them; [...]

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Henna and Metallic Dyes

| September 18, 2012 | 0 Comments
Henna and Metallic Dyes

Two other nonoxidations-albeit permanent-dyes deserve mention: henna and metallic dyes. Henna, in use for thousands of years, is a plant extract. Part of its appeal rests on its being a safe, natural substance. Ground leaves and stems are applied to your scalp in the form of a pack, which is actually a paste made with [...]

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Hair Straightening

| September 18, 2012 | 0 Comments
Hair Straightening

There are three different types of chemical hair straighteners: thioglycollates, sodium hydroxide, and bisulfite straighteners. All of them act by breaking the chemical bonds in curly hair, permitting them to be rearranged. Thioglycollates are the same chemicals found in permanent waving lotions. For hair straightening, however, they are used in stronger concentrations. Straighteners are sold [...]

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Hair Coloring

| September 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

Three basic groups of hair coloring products are available. They differ primarily on how long the new color they give will last. Temporary Dyes Temporary dyes, which also known as rinses, do not penetrate your hair, but instead coat it with water soluble colors. No permanent chemical reaction takes place, which is the reason that [...]

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Wigs and Area Hairpieces

| September 4, 2012 | 6 Comments
Wigs and Area Hairpieces

Wigs and hairpieces are another alternative for people with thinning hair. Today, wigs and hairpieces are far more natural-looking than in past years. The selection is broad, and there are considerable differences in quality, cost, durability, and maintenance. Custom-Made Wigs Custom-made wigs are the highest quality wigs, and therefore the most expensive. They are handmade [...]

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Hairweaving

| September 1, 2012 | 0 Comments
Hairweaving

Originally limited to dealing with male pattern baldness, hairweaving has more recently been used successfully for dealing with female hair loss. Hairweaving is basically a procedure in which color- and texture-matched human hair is woven, braided, or knotted into your own natural hair. Your natural hair is used to anchor the newly woven hair in [...]

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Synthetic Wigs

| September 1, 2012 | 9 Comments
Synthetic Wigs

Synthetic wigs, in which the “hairs” are made from synthetic fibers, come in two varieties-the custom synthetic wig and ready-made stock wig. Generally handmade, custom synthetic wigs allow you some individualization as far as measurement and color are concerned, but cost much less than custom-made wigs because they do not contain real human hair. These [...]

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Stress Related Hair Loss

| August 10, 2012 | 7 Comments
Stress Related Hair Loss

At any one time, in a normal head of hair, approximately 85 percent of all the hairs are actively growing and are called anagen hairs. The remaining 15 percent are in a resting stage and are called telogen hairs. Telogen hairs are gradually shed and, after a short time, replaced by new anagen hairs. Occasionally, [...]

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Reversible Hair Loss

| August 10, 2012 | 3 Comments
Reversible Hair Loss

Thin hair and hair breakage are conditions that are not really true hair loss problems. For the most part, thin hair is an inherited trait, like hair color. Blond hair is the thinnest form of hair, red hair the thickest. A full head of blond hair must contain roughly forty thousand more hair than a [...]

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Hair fall

| August 9, 2012 | 10 Comments
Hair fall

An average person with a normal head of hair loses between fifty and one hundred hairs per day. Under normal circumstances, lost hairs are replaced by an equal number of new hairs, which are made in the hair root within the follicle below the scalp surface. Your hair, which grows faster during the summer than [...]

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