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A Great useful chart to help manage your Hair Growth Rate!!

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During the Renaissance women plucked the entire front hair away to give the appearance of a higher forehead.

Canities is the technical term for gray hair.
Split ends are called trichoptilosis. Next time you go to the salon ask your stylist to colour your canities and to trim your trichoptilosis.

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Beautiful hair doesn’t come in a separate package…it comes along with a healthy scalp. Where you get healthy scalp, you get beautiful hair too. A healthy scalp is like fertile soil, it’s a place from which hair can grow and flourish.

A healthy scalp is one where the skin is toned and stimulated and flexible! A flexible scalp shows a healthy network of connective tissue and nutritional blood vessels which allow plenty of circulation. It’s clean too! How can you keep it healthy??
 
Eat well to maintain your scalp and hair. Your hair is last in the queue when receiving nutrition, so if you don’t eat enough, your hair won’t get anything at the end of the day. Crash and fad dieting can destroy your hair, so don’t resort to such drastic measures. Rather eat plenty of fresh fruits and veggies, especially those brimming with Vitamin B such as nuts, whole grains or even peas.

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Did you know that hair is made from the same material that makes up fingernails, birds’ feathers and reptilian scales? It’s called keratin.Keratin refers not to one particular substance but to a family of tough, fibrous proteins found in the animal kingdom. Keratin is present in hair, horns, hooves, beaks, shells, fingernails, toenails, and claws. All proteins contain carbon (C), hydrogen (H), nitrogen (N), and oxygen (O). One of the proteins found in keratin is cysteine. Cysteine contains the fifth element, sulfur (S).

Did you know that each hair follicle contains enough genetic material to clone a human being?

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1. Rinsing hair with cold water at the end of a shower closes the cuticle. This creates a healthy, shiny appearance.

2.Water is essential for the health of hair for a number of reasons. The hair is one quarter water. That fact alone should accentuate how important water is for the hair. Water also carries vital vitamins to the hair root and hydrates the entire hair strand from the inside. Water is the main source of energy for hair cells, including the cells that generate new hair growth. Water also clears the body from pollutants, which also cause hair loss. Without proper hydration, you will see dryness in your hair and skin that can only be restored by drinking 8 to 10 glasses of water a day

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According to J. G. Mosley of the Leigh Infirmary in Lancashire, England in an article in Science News (January 11, 1997) smokers are four times more likely to have gray hair than nonsmokers. Even worse, smoking has been conclusively linked to accelerated hair loss.







It is a fact that lice and other parasites can be transported from scalp to scalp through the sharing of combs, brushes and other hair care tools. Thats why it is imperative that stylists disinfect their tools after each and every client!

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Uncut split ends can travel up the hair shaft towards the roots. Tresses that are not tended to, over time, may develop splits that migrate and split all or part of the entire hair.

Some ends can actually tear multiple times so that your split ends have splits.

 

 

Thin, limp or fine hair will not ever grow thicker in response to a haircut. Plump up your hair by using volume enhancing hair care products, experimenting with a hair fattening blunt cut or getting a texturizing perm or color treatment

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Scalp Dryness

Dry scalp is a common issue that many people face, especially in winter or in colder climates where you are moving in and out of heated areas frequently. The skin of the scalp becomes tight and itchy and tiny flakes of dead skin are showered by combing and brushing. Dry scalp conditions are often misidentified as dandruff, and are treated as such, which can worsen the condition depending on the treatments used. Common methods to treat dry scalp can include the application of deep conditioning treatments, moisturizers and lotions for the scalp, scalp massage (to stimulate circulation).

Fly Away

Flyaway hair occurs when there's low humidity or the air is dry, hair loses water to the surrounding air and dries out. Dry hair builds up negative electricity resulting in flyaway. The best way to solve this hair trouble is to add moisture back to your hair.

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Trichtollimania is the impulse to pull out one`s own hair. Some people will eat it.

One inch of your hair can reveal alot of facts about your behavior. Scientists can discern facts, such as what you ate, or drank in the last month and in what environment or region you lived.

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Hormone imbalance and crash dieting can trigger temporary hair loss.

We are born with all our hair follicles. Some are programmed to grow pigmented hair (as on our scalp) up to 3 feet in length.

Hair is actually dead material when it leaves its root - otherwise it would hurt very much when your hairdresser works with his scissors.

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 It is believed that every person has eyelash mites. They come out when you sleep to eat the cells your eyelashes shed and other debris. They help eyelashes to grow by preventing hair follicles from clogging.

It's not a perfect measure, but some experts estimate that we may shed up to 100 or more hairs a day. That's not cause for alarm, nor does it mean you're going bald. About 90% of your 100,000 hair follicles are producing hair at any given time. The other 10% are in a resting (telogen) phase, and the hair falls out after about 2 to 3 months. It's replaced by new hair, and the growth cycle starts over again.

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 The core structure of the human hair shaft can be used for forensic drug testing and anonymous drug test for any presence of illicit drug metabolites. Hence, your single hair can already provide substantial information in an investigation.


A person's genes determine the hair/skin/eye color since before his or her birth. The determinants for hair color are known as melanocytes. These cells form the natural hair colors, or pigments and distinguish between black, brown, and red. Depending on the percentage of each pigment, the person has blonde, brown, red or black hair. As the melanocytes decay during a lifetime, the hair becomes a dull gray and later on it turns into a whitish color.

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Did you know that by simply angling the nozzle down the shaft of the hair while blow drying, you can help prevent damage? Angling down keeps the cuticle from being roughed up.

Did you know that you should use flat irons and curling irons only on completely dry hair. Hot tools like these on wet hair can boil the water within each strand, causing damaged hair that can lead to split ends and breakage.

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Having sex can actually help your hair grow quicker. According to experts, during forms of physical activity your blood flow increases not only in your scalp but all around your body. This means nutrients will travel down to your hair follicles resulting in strong, luscious, healthy hair. This is also why regularly massaging your head - to increase blood flow - can strengthen hair follicles and promote growth.

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Suffer from static hair? Then this could be down to heat damage. In the hair’s normal state it’s acidic, which means it’s positively charged. When damaged, for example due to heat exposure, it becomes alkaline and negatively charged, triggering frizzy, static hair that’s more difficult to manage.