Hair loss
I get questions about this from time to time so I thought I’d discuss it here. All humans lose anywhere from 70 to 100 hairs or more per day. That is normal, and nothing to worry about. Hairs shed and new ones grow back in it’s place, much like skin cells. So never worry when you are shampooing and there are some hairs left in your fingers, it’s completely normal.
Most hair loss is genetic, meaning, you are just going to lose it, and you can’t do a damn thing about it ( male pattern baldness). But sometimes there are other reasons. For the most part, your hair, skin, and nails all reflect whats going on inside our bodies, and if there is something wrong or traumatic going on, you might experience hair loss. There are many reasons: stress, illness, chemotherapy, medication, giving birth, too much vitamin k, infection, hormone imbalance…etc. I had an experience with a male client that was rare but interesting: he always had think, full amazing hair, and one day as I was doing my usual cut on him, I noticed a completely bald patch the diameter of a quarter on his scalp that was never there before. He was completely unaware of it when I showed him, and he of course, was alarmed. I told him to see a doctor after assuring him that frequent hat wearing would not have caused that. Two days later he thanked me because he had seen the doctor and found out that the hair loss was due to an untreated tooth infection. Who knew?! So I guess the moral to that story is to see your hairstylist and dentist often.
Really, what is most often mistaken for hair loss is breakage. A lot of women abuse the flat iron or change hair colors too often, and end up making their hair too brittle and it simply breaks off, making them think they are experiencing thinning hair. To that I say, be good to your hair and it will be good to you. Don’t demand your stylist take you from dark to light to dark and back to light again unless you want a pixie cut. Please don’t flat iron your hair every single day. And for the love, please, please don’t rip through your hair with that brush! Use a leave in conditioner every time you wash and condition your hair. Yes, shampoo, condition, then leave in conditioner. No, it won’t weigh your hair down. I promise.
xoxo Gina