Anybody Can Have Thicker Hair




As a rule, people are not satisfied with the way they are created: skinny women want to gain a little weight, obese people try to find ways to lose some, blonds dream about having black or red hair while brunettes dye theirs in blond. The same is true when it comes to volume: a person with thick hair knows how hard it is to deal with it and how heavy their hair is, while someone else with thin hair dreams about extra volume. Let’s look at this last problem and figure out if it is possible to increase the volume of an average person’s hair.

Hair thickness is determined by a number of hair strands per square inch. But it doesn’t mean you have to determine a square inch on your scalp and try to count each strand in it. If you are curious about the true volume of your hair try to check this:

•    Make a pony tail. If the diameter of it is about the size of a dime, your hair is thin, if it is “two-fisted” – you are a proud owner of thick hair.
•    Look at your hair when it’s wet. A person with thin hair can see the scalp through it while the thick hair covers the scalp even being wet.

After this test many of the readers will notice they fall into a category of people with medium hair volume. This is the most common type and someone with the medium thickness can be thankful for it because this kind of hair is the most manageable and will “accept” any experiment or hair style.

The owner of thin hair as well as the one who is not satisfied with medium volume can make it look thicker in two ways: quickly and harmfully or slowly and healthily. Everything has to do with the “fish scales” of a strand of hair. Several shampoo brands have a picture on the back of their bottles showing the microscopic view of a piece of hair: it is made out of particles (cuticles) that can open and close like fish scales. The harmful way works entails opening the cuticles and filling them up with chemicals, while the healthy way makes the hair stronger, causing it to stand up by filling the cuticles with essential oils or wax.

Many women might have noticed the hair looks and feels thicker right after they dye it. The secret is that in order to color the hair and make the dye last longer the designers of the coloring mixture made it in the way that it opens the cuticles and fills the strands with the dye both in the inside and on the outside.

The same effect of open cuticles appears when a person blow dries their hair: the open “scales” make the hair three times as big as it originally was. Unfortunately, this kind of thickness is temporary; because the volume will fade back after the cuticles close up.

In order to have thicker, healthier hair a person should start with the right shampoo. Almost every brand has a type that increases volume, but since everybody is different, the shampoo has to be chosen particularly for his/her hair type. If you don’t want to experiment, go to your hair stylist and ask for advice on the best kind of cosmetics.

Right after washing your hair, use deep conditioner and protein treatment. It is usually good to have them of the same brand as the shampoo. Protein treatment makes the hair healthier and thicker by strengthening it.

Another good way to take care of the scalp and hair is massage. Make a habit to do so daily ten minutes before going to bed. A good massage with your fingertips (don’t scrape your scalp with your nails, it will cause damage) increases the blood access to the scalp and stimulates hair growth. A fine addition to the massage would be rosemary essential oil that has to be rubbed into the skin.

Also, remember that a healthy way of living strengthens the whole body, and hair in particular. This means a person needs to avoid stress, eat a lot of fruit and vegetables, get enough sleep, increase the vitamin intake and keep away from any diets that are too strict.

Melissa Hunt

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Posted on January 25, 2009 
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