This hair growth journey can be a frustrating one, especially if you have tried everything under the sun and your hair won’t grow anything more than a few cm from your scalp. Or your hair seems to break off no matter how gentle you are when handling it.
Is your hair falling out? You’ll want to read this! What to do when your hair line suddenly starts to recede… Did you know that women can experience "male” pattern baldness”. Women tend to see progressive thinning whereas men have much more dramatic loss of hair. Let’s get into the root cause of male (+ female!) pattern baldness as it is definitely not gender specific. It all starts with your hormones. Hormones are chemical messengers that travel in your bloodstream to target cells to provide information. In the case of pattern baldness, an enzyme called 5a reductase converts testosterone to its more potent form DHT. DHT causes the hair follicles around the hairline and crown areas to shrink...
Dry hair breaks. It’s as simple as that. There’s no other way around it, if someone tells you otherwise it’s a lie! But be very careful, how you tackle this problem depends entirely on your hair porosity. What is porosity? Porosity is sort of like the personality of your hair. It determines how well your hair absorbs moisture and product. This is such an important factor when it comes to growing healthier, longer, stronger hair as without this knowledge you could be doing more harm than good your precious ‘Fro. As mentioned in Episode 1, your cuticles (remember those overlapping scales over your hair shaft?) determine your porosity. Depending on how “low” or “highly” raised your cuticles are that will dictate your “porosity”. How do you find out...
We’ve all been there…We see an amazing braided hairstyle on Instagram and think “I need this!” *takes screenshot*
Only to find ourselves at the hair dressers who have somehow pulled our edges so tight to achieve this look, leaving us with a bald spot. This is scientifically defined as “Traction Alopecia”.
Did you know that poor detangling is one of THE leading causes of breakage? This is something alot of people miss out on and wonder why their hair never grows past a certain point! No matter what hair growth products you use (yes even our Best Selling Hair Growth Potion!) without a good detangling routine your hair will never grow to that waistlength goal or more. This is something alot of haircare business may never address and just sell you product; which is like trying to put a bandage on an internal bleeding wound. It just won’t work. We need to address the root cause to actually see results Contrary to popular belief your hair is growing every single second of the day, if you are not seeing results it is because...
