May 29, 2009

Make Thinning Hair Look Thicker: Three Tips To Improve Bad Hair Days

Your hair has been getting thinner for a while. When you look in the mirror, you are appalled. What’s with all that scalp shining through?

Maybe you’re just fed up with it and wish it would look thicker. Maybe you’re actively doing something that may help your hair grow back, or at least make it stop falling out so much. And you’re optimistic. But why does it have to take so long until you see a noticeable difference?

Here are a few things you can do to make your hair at least look thicker while you wait. They're easy and quick so you can have thicker hair tonight. And the best thing: none of them involve expensive or otherwise drastic measures.

Tip 1: Use Color. This technique is especially effective if your hair is graying. In that case, color will make your hair look much thicker instantly. But color can also help if you’re just changing your shade a little, and even if you pick a perfect match for your natural color. That’s because hair color actually thickens each individual hair just a tiny bit, and the overall effect is very helpful.

Tip 2: Use Thickening Shampoos. Thickening shampoos, also known as voluming shampoos, really make a difference. There are a number of them on the market. I’m avoiding anything with sodium lauryl sulfate these days, so I’m buying mine at the health food store. Before I went off that chemical, I used to use one with a really embarrassing name by Catwalk. Excellent stuff.

Tip 3: Dry shampoos. I discovered this little trick by accident. Originally I bought it because I thought I might find it handy after hitting the snooze button too many times. But when I combed my hair after the first time I tried it, I could hardly believe my eyes. My hair looked a LOT thicker. It felt that way too! Now this may not be ideal for everyday use, and it’s surprisingly expensive, but who am I to tell you what to do. Besides, it thickens up clean hair quite nicely too...

Meanwhile, I have tried two of the dry shampoos, one great, and the other quite serviceable but with far too much perfume for my taste. The price difference is substantial though that I have bought a second bottle of the overly perfumed kind.

Just in case you want to know: the fancy shampoo is Naturia by Rene Furterer ($22 for 3.2 oz. on Ebay), and the other, heavily perfumed one is just plain “dry shampoo” by Batiste ($6.99 at Sally’s). Both come in environmentally problematic spray bottles, and you should probably also know that the 3 to 5 ounces of stuff is only enough for maybe half a dozen or so applications, depending on how much of it you use each time.

So there you have it. Three easy tricks to make your hair look thicker. You can use one, two, or even all three. Meanwhile, I think I’ll investigate some more brands for a follow-up dry shampoo review.
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Hair Cut Or Hair Growth And Life Of Hair

Every part of the body has some purpose to serve. We cut our hair from scalp and shave our face daily because we do not like its growth to distort our looks (?)And see the obstinacy and compulsion of the body; it brings back the hair we had cut. Is it not sufficient evidence that body contemplates the growth of hair on the place where it suits much to the advantage of skin and the organs beneath it? Actually what we do is we cut the cuticle of hair, which has several parts below i.e. Huxley’s layer, Henley’s layer, glassy layer medulla, cortical substance, hair bulb, hair papilla, blood vessel and then connective tissues of the cutis, are the parts lying underneath the end of hair, that we cut.

Cutting of hair is a repeated process affecting all the lower parts of the hair in which many changes occur before we see the cuticle come out of skin again. After cutting the end of hair, we cannot rule out the adverse effect on the working efficiency of the blood vessel beneath papilla. The adjoining blood vessels supplying blood to whole of adjoining hair or skin of head and face may not function wholly as per the designed efficiency.

In other words, the working efficiency of the hair and the organ beneath is degraded, if not destroyed. There is a saying in our old health books duly approved by our ancestors and saints that cutting of beard could harm gums and teeth. This harm may be in the form of decay or weakness in gums and rots of teeth. Can this related to malnutrition and inefficiency of blood cells of hair, which are subjected to frequent cuts at its ends? I feel any disturbance cause on the outer body is bound to affect the inner body may be in a long run.

It is just like continuous rubbing of the rope drawing bucket of water from the well and resulting in making of a groove on the brick wall of the well. I may be wrong and would like to have a rational correction from your end. I am just correlating theoretical aspects.

The hair according to above theory has a limited existence and short life. It is shed by the process of separation that takes place about the bulb accompanied by a contraction of the hair- follicle at this point.

Once the hair is in its shedding process, the new hair is regenerated from the inner root-sheath about the papilla and it pushes the dead hair lying ahead of it until it is shed or accidentally removed while massaging the scalp or brushing the hair.

This means that hair is produced from the epidermis but its production is a process that forms a cornified cylinder, projected form the cutaneous surface and is very analogous to real epidermal cornification. The life of the hair is short but it is a process of regeneration that keeps the healthy person happy when he or she sees growth of hair returning after a lapse or recess.
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