To achieve long, lustrous hair simply takes time. All too used to convenience and immediate results, hair extensions can provide a great solution for thicker, fuller hair. Celebs like Katie Price have made such styles famous, but are also famous for making tabloid headlines when they suffer the problems that can come with them. So to what extent does the quick-fix to length damage your hair in the long term? Continue reading →

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Ever wondered if hair grows back thicker after tweezing or waxing? DHD says it’s a frequent question he  gets concerning beauty myths So,to help shed light on the topic.

Tweezing is not likely to influence or cause diameter changes to hair texture. Hormonal variables and genetic predisposition are much more likely to be at play.’ However ‘tweezing eyebrows repeatedly can lead to destruction of the follicle. But from a trichological perspective, if someone is going through hair changes and also reports the eyebrows are finer and more sparse we will always want to ensure there is no thyroid imbalance’.

An age-old hair myth is that hair can turn grey or white overnight. Scientifically, it is impossible for your hair to turn grey or white overnight. The hair that you see on your head has its colour genetically formed. Hair colour can only be changed by applying a bleach or colouring agent. Therefore, unless someone has snuck into your room at night and treated you to a set of highlights, you cannot wake up one morning to find all of your existing hairs have turned grey or white overnight.

‘My hair has gone grey / white overnight’ is also one of those dramatic statements used to convey the degree of stress somebody has undergone. Stress can in fact affect hair colour and cause it to turn grey or white, but this happens gradually and as the hair is growing. A huge shock to your body or system can also cause hair to turn grey or white more rapidly. It is thought that both stress and shock interfere with the production of melanocytes,which make melanin, the pigment granules which give hair its colour. However, unless you are Rip Van Winkle, it is impossible for this to happen overnight.

That said, all myths must come from somewhere and have an underlying element of truth or plausibility. The hair turning grey or white overnight myth is probably linked to alopecia areata . Alopecia areata causes clumps of hair to fall out and these fallen hairs are replaced initially with white hairs or, more accurately, unpigmented hairs. However, even this change in your hair can’t occur overnight.

An emotional trauma can cause sudden hair loss; this reversible, normal condition is called telogen effluvium.

How can something that has nothing to do with your hair or scalp cause your hair to fall out? Well, according to doctors and hair loss experts, anything that disrupts your body’s normal rhythms or hormone levels can also disrupt the hair growth cycle. Sometimes, this disruption causes hair follicles to get stuck in the telogen, or resting, phase until they are pushed out in the exogen (shedding) phase. Because follicles do not return to the normal anagen (growth) phase, hair loss appears to be sudden and noticeable.  This condition is known as telogen effluvium. Continue reading →