Healthy Looking Hair

 

 

 

Healthy looking hair has a smooth, tightly closed cuticle layer that protects the inner cortex from drying out. The cuticle layer allows hair to maintain its moisture balance, and gives hair its elasticity, strength and shine. Hair Damage is a serious problem for many people. Hair damage can range from uplifted cuticle scales resulting in dullness and decreased shine to bubbled and brittle cuticles to complete removal of the cuticle layer.

 

Damaged hair is dry, porous, weak and hard to manage. Knots, tangles, back-combing and hair elastics can lift the cells of the cuticle layer, which can eventually lead to cortex exposure and hair breakage.

Too much heat can cause the water in hair to a boil. Hair dyes lift the cuticle so that the dyes can enter the cortex of the hair. The process can also dry out the hair. Ultra-violet rays of the sun breaking down keratin and melanin in the cortex and cuticle of the hair.Wind tangles the hair and causes individual strands to rub together. This can cause enough friction to damage the cuticle layer, weakening the hair shaft and leading to breakage. Cold weather dries out hair more quickly because there is less
humidity in the air.

 

Damaged Hair Treatment and Prevention Tips

1. On a regular basis cut and trim damaged areas with split ends.

2. Use a  shampoo that is suitable for your hair type

3. Long hair needs regular conditioning to rejuvenate strands

4. Drink plenty of water for natural moisture to hair.

5. Eat a balanced diet, including multivitamins and protein in order to encourage the growth of hair.

6. Brush on Jojoba oil with a boar bristle brush at least once a week before washing your hair.

7. Exercise also helps stimulate blood flow to the scalp and hair follicles.

8. Avoid stressful situations that may prompt hair loss

Dawn Harrison, owner of Invisible Hair Pieces, Extensions, and Human hair wigs.

Dawn has earned two U.S. Patents for inventing the “Invisible Hair Grafting”, which is a non-surgical method of attaching human hair pieces to women’s hair and skin.

 

 

 

 

 

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Thyroid and Hair loss

What is a “thyroid disorder”?

Thyroid and hair loss disorders are fairly common. The hormones that are produced by this gland affects almost every part of your body – from your heart to your brain, to your muscles to your hair. A main cause of hair loss among women is subpar or low thyroid function. Other common symptoms of low thyroid function include cold hands and feet, yellow teeth, widely spaced teeth, depression, morning headaches, as well as other symptoms.

Severe and prolonged hypothyroidism (low) and hyperthyroidism (high) can cause hair loss. The hair loss is usually spread out through the entire scalp. The hair appears uniformly thin. Regrowth is usual with successful treatment of the thyroid disorder, though it will take several months of finding the right treatment and may be incomplete.

Some forms of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism come on abruptly and fortunately are diagnosed early, while in other instances they have been present for months or years before diagnosis. Hair loss due to thyroid disease usually becomes apparent several months after the onset of thyroid disease. This is due to the hairs long life cycle. Because hair loss does not show as a symptom right away, people who start their thyroid treatment, may experience hair loss soon after and mistaken the loss as a symptom of their treatment, and in turn stop their treatment.

 

A good percentage of people with hypo- or hyper-thyroidism also have autoimmune thyroid disease. If a person has one autoimmune disease, they are more likely than others to develop other autoimmune conditions. Alopecia areata is an autoimmune condition that causes hair loss that occurs in people with autoimmune thyroid disease more often than not. Unlike the types of all over hair loss described above, alopecia areata causes discrete, often circular, areas of hair loss. In most cases this stays confined to where it starts and does not progress, but unfortunately it can cause significant baldness.

 

Thankfully, with todays advanced technology, knowledge and education, there are many hair loss solutions to choose from. It is so important to be able to look and feel your best while you are going through life’s changes.

 

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Tips For Dry Damaged Hair

Repairing and Healing Dry or Damaged Hair

Tips for dry damaged hair  will fall
into two primary categories. One, the styling technique and procedure and two,
hair treatments and hair products to repair and heal hair that has been damaged from
over-styling, chemical treatments such as perms, relaxing or coloring, or
damage from environmental factors.

 

• Avoid over-styling with flat irons or curling irons. Both have a tendency to kill  hair follicles  by
  overheating and destroy both hair moisture and nutrients.
• Avoid perms and coloring if possible. The  number one cause of  hair damage we see in women  is color damage.
  Chemicals and coloring can kill the hair follicles and root. As we grow older nutrition delivery lessen and the shaft become more susceptible to damage.
• Use your fingers or a wide-bodied comb when drying and maintain a proper distance between the nozzle of the dryer and your hair.
• Repair and healing dry damaged hair requires adding hydration. Use root treatments designed to condition. Use spray-on, leave-in conditioners when styling to add protection
• Conditioners enriched with Argan oil are the products we have found best to repair and heal dry or damage hair.
• Dawn Harrison, owner of Invisible Hair Pieces, Extensions, and Human hair wigs.
• Dawn has earned two U.S. Patents for inventing the “Invisible Hair Grafting”, which is a non-surgical method of attaching human hair pieces to women’s hair and skin.

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Hair Loss Facts

Hair Loss Fact:

The American Academy of Dermatology has estimated that at least half the women in the U.S. will experience some form of hair loss by the time they are fifty.

 

The problem typically falls into a few general categories.  One being telogen effluvium, it is described as generalized hair-shedding. It can occur in the months post-childbirth, after you stop birth control pills, or after a major emotional or physical trauma. Fortunately, in most cases it recedes within a year.

Another type of effluvium is brought on by medication or a medical problem, such as severe anemia, hormonal or endocrine abnormalities, or a thyroid disorder. Dermatologists will take a history, then order blood tests and maybe a scalp biopsy to determine the cause.

The third type of hair loss is female pattern baldness, also known as androgenic alopecia. Women do not get large bald spots like men do, but if your hair is relentlessly thinning, your hairline is becoming more see-through and your part is growing wider – you’ve got FPB. It is genetic, and occurs with the plummeting estrogen levels related to menopause. Some women will opt to slow the progression of FPB with a topical solution minoxidil (Rogaine) which can take up to a year for results and is better for keeping what you have rather than replacing what you have lost.

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Personal Pain

Personal Pain

Who Do You Know Who Is Suffering With…

• Fine or baby fine hair.
• Damaged hair.
• Beginning thinning.
• Those who need corrective color without damage.
• Noticeably thinning due to Alopecia, chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, burns, Trichotillomania, female heredity hair loss, medications, stress or diet induced hair loss.
• Those who wish to cover scares.

…If any of these pertain to you or someone you know Invisible Hair Restoration Center can help you.

What Are They Going Thru…

• To many women the loss of their hair, due to thinning was greater, more shocking and catastrophic than learning they had cancer.
• Children and teenagers who cannot participate in sports
• Wig wearers that have to remove their hair to exercise, sleep, shower and cook.
• Radiation patients missing their hair in isolated areas.
• Facelift patients whose face looks younger but hair looks older.
• Singed hair while cooking.
• High winds blowing their wig off.
• Uncomfortable attachment methods that cause additional hair loss.
• Cannot use traditional brushing or combing techniques.
• Scalp showing through the hair.
• Hair unable to grow past shoulders.

…If any of these pertain to you or someone you know Invisible Hair Restoration Center can help you.

What They Want To Achieve…

• Guaranteed security.
• Non-damaging.
• Brush or comb naturally.
• Hair additions that look like their own hair growing out of their scalp.
• To wear hats.
• Be around babies.
• Go underwater in a pool.
• Wear additional hair during intimate situations.
• Brush their hair straight back.
• Healthy, comfortable, most natural, affordable.
• Undetectable to others.
• Youthfulness.
• Hair to stop falling out.
• Hair to grow thicker and shinier.

…If any of these pertain to you or someone you know Invisible Hair Restoration Center can help you.

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Why our Invisible Extensions are revolutionary.

What Makes Our Invisible Extensions So Revolutionary?

Patented method of attachment; Invisible Hair Grafting US Patent #6,688,315

The first and only Hair Extension method specially intended for baby fine hair.

Implanted hair strands, one at a time into “skin” to provide 360º pivotability, free
style hair direction and root volume.

Root Volume-most poly skin based extensions are knotted into coated
monofilament. The result being a flat, one directional hair flow, ours provide root
lift, height on top and instant volume anywhere on the head.

Perfect color matching-designed to facilitate a seamless color blend. Packaged
as a set of 6, each pair can have up to 2 different colored “sub strips”. Mix and
match when purchasing multiple pairs.

Undetectable-all you’ll see is skin and hair.

Smooth-attachment site lies completely flat; you can brush and comb your hair
as usual.

Does not grow out-stays attached for 5-8 weeks. Attached skin to skin, instead
of skin to hair.

Contoured shape-slight curve shape fits a women’s head dimension perfectly
wherever applied. Close fitting brick laid patterns and hair line applications are
easily achieved.

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Causes of hair loss

Causes of hair loss:

Androgenetic alopecia is the scientific name for the genetic predisposition in both men and women for pattern baldness or pattern hair loss. Androgenetic alopecia is the cause of over 95% of all pattern hair loss, including baldness in men and thinning hair in women. Pattern hair loss occurs in somewhat predictable stages, and is relentlessly progressive. This means that those with pattern hair loss will, if they live long enough, eventually progress from the early stages of loss to the advanced stages. We all suffer hair loss; some people just arrive at the advance stages of hair loss sooner than others. Studies have shown that pattern loss is increasingly evident and advanced as people age.

Estrogens: Other hormones included in a class known as estrogens, can inhibit or counteract the follicle-shrinking effect of the androgens. Women generally have more estrogens circulating in their blood than men. As a result of this higher level of estrogens, even women having a genetic predisposition for pattern hair loss are protected from losing their hair because of the high level of estrogen in their blood.

Menopause: When these women reach menopause however, their estrogen level may decrease sufficiently, and the hair loss message may start to get through to the genetically programmed follicles. Their hair can begin to thin, sometimes dramatically.

Exposure Time, Not Hormone Quantity: The time period for exposure to DHT is a critical factor in pattern hair loss, and it can take many decades for some genetically programmed follicles to get the message to stop producing hairs. The specific way that time duration affects pattern hair loss is not completely understood. It is the genetically programmed receptiveness of the hair follicles, and an adequate amount of time, not the amount of hormones, that cause hair follicle shrinkage, and the hair thinning that results. People with thin hair have the same amount of testosterone as those with thick hair. The difference is in their hair follicle’s genetically programmed receptiveness to DHT. Even on the same person’s head, where all the follicles have the same exposure to hormones in the blood, some follicles are programmed to keep growing, while others begin to spend more time resting.

Genetic Program is the Cause: Pattern hair loss is not the result of “trapped hair follicles”, build-up of DHT, scalp oils, or anything else on the scalp, poor circulation, inadequate oxygen, constant stress, or inadequate nutrition. Pattern hair loss is simply the result of genetic programming of hair follicle cells and the exposure of the cells to hormones in the blood over a long period of time.

No Cure for Causes of Hair Loss; Only Treatments: At present there is not a cure for androgenetic alopecia. There is nothing that will stop the condition once and for all. There are however, many treatments for this form of hair loss, and each has advantages and disadvantages. Treatments and hair replacement are described in detail in other parts of this site. Some hair loss treatments for women are designed primarily to separate those with thin hair from their money, rather than restore hair.

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