Stress on your Tresses
Stress on your Tresses
We have approximately 100,000 hairs on our head. According to estimates, if we put it all together, we grow almost 8 miles of hair a year! Hair grows about 1/3rd of a millimeter a day and about 1/2 inch a month.
Hair is governed by our genes. Straight hair usually has a round hair-shaft and grows evenly on all sides. Wavy hair-shafts tend to be oval and curly hair has almost 97% protein.
Hair takes its protein from our body — which is one of the important reasons to have a balanced diet if one wants a healthy head of hair. The length to which our hair grows is also determined by heredity and hormones. (more…)
Stress on your Tresses
Stress on your Tresses
The hair is rightly called “the richest ornament of women.” Down the ages, poets and writers have waxed eloquent on the beauty of a woman’s hair. Nothing spells sheer feminity quite as graphically as a cloud of hair that gleams and shimmers.
Our hair frames our face and is one of the most important beauty assets. Every woman wants to be proud of her hair. So here are some tips for hair-care. Hair is made of kerÂatin, a protein substance, growing out of a pore opening in the scalp. This pocket or opening is called follicle. The base of the follicle is called the papilla, from where the growth of hair begins. Hair itself is a dead substance, but the papilla is alive. It produces and nourishes new hair.