HAIR TYPE TEST

Hair is the crown of the body. It does not matter how beautiful you are if you neglect your hair.
Good hair care should be started at home. With proper care and attention you can restore its vitality and glossy sheen.
Brush your hair before washing so as to remove the tangles and surface dirt.

Tissue paper test

You can test the type of hair using tissue paper by following steps:
Use your shampoo a day before.
Take a tissue paper and press it on the centre of head and behind the ears. If there is oil on the tissue paper, it means you have oily hair otherwise your hair is dry.

Experts think that:

Dry skin people have dry hair.
Normal skin people have normal hair.
People with oily skin have oily hair.
People who have oily and dry ends have combinational hair.

Characteristics of different hair

Oily hair:

They looks good for day or two after shampooing, then after that they become greasy.
It has the problem of dandruff.
Their head looks dirty because hair cling to each other forming groups which looks unattractive.

Dry hair:

They look very dull and are very difficult to control after shampooing.
They break off easily
They have splits at the ends.
The head feels dry and itchy.

Combination hair:

It is a combination of both dry and oily hair.
The hair looks good after shampooing except the ends.
The hair near the head is greasy and the ends are dry.
By the time hair needs shampooing again, ends look quite good.
Ends are difficult to set smoothly, split and lighter in color than the roots

BASIC HAIR CARE

Hair care includes number of things hair type test, the tips you should take for hair care, brushing and combing, shampooing and drying, treating baldness, hair conditioning, dandruff, hair dyes, split ends and hair loss, studying about hair lice and how to treat it, laser hair removal and the electrolysis method taken for hair care.
Hair is the crown of the body. It does not matter how beautiful you are if you neglect your hair.

Good hair care should be started at home. With proper care and attention you can restore its vitality and glossy sheen.

1. Brush your hair before washing so as to remove the tangles and surface dirt. Although brushing is less damaging than combing but a soft brush does not cause more damage to hair than a comb.
   Prolonged brushing can also harm the hair. Back combing also damages the hair. It causes knotting which is very difficult to untangle.



2. A good comb should always be preferred. A good comb is that which have rounded and not sharp teeth. Brush ends should always be rounded to minimize the mechanical damage to hair. Nylon brushes with spiky ends also damage the hair.



3. Dandruff is the most common problem. It is an exaggeration of the scaling process by which the skin renews itself. It is just the waste material through the pores of the scalp.
   Lice are small insects living in dirty condition in our head. Neglecting the lice in head means neglecting hygiene of head. Head should be kept clean.



4. Laser is an important source of hair removal. Laser are of four types-ruby, diode, alexandrite and Nd: YAG laser. Laser light destroy hair follicles by thermal, mechanical or photochemical mechanism.
   Unwanted hairs can be removed permanently by electrolysis. In this a needle is inserted into hair follicle and an electrical pulse is sent through the needle. If this hair follicle is in the active growth stage at the time of treatment, it will probably not grow again. Baldness is caused due to inadequate nutrition.