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The old “100 strokes a day” beauty tip is a myth. Brushing your hair too much can cause split ends. Over time, it could even lead to hair loss.

​Health Tip:
Teach Your Kids Healthy Hair Habits​

(HealthDay News) -- Kids should learn healthy ways to take care of their hair at an early age, the American Academy of Dermatology says.

The group offers this advice:
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• Wet hair and scalp with warm water before using shampoo.
• Use only a quarter-size drop of shampoo.
• Massage the shampoo gently into the scalp.
• Rinse all of the suds from the hair with warm water.
• Cover hair with a towel to absorb water. But don't rub wet hair, which can damage it.
• Comb out damp hair gently with a wide-tooth comb.
• Make braids and ponytails loose, and use covered rubber bands.
• Select styles that don't require heat and chemical treatment.
• If using heat on hair, use the lower setting.
• Chemicals in relaxers, dyes and other hairstyling products may damage the hair. So try to maximize the time between treatments.
• When outdoors, wear a wide-brimmed hat to protect hair from the sun.

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(A Comprehensive Buying Guide)

A hot roller is one of the most effective, and yet least appreciated, hair styling device on the shelves today.

And, although these products have been on the market for decades, their concept hasn’t changed (only the technology).

Today, they use the most advanced technology to curl and keep your hair healthy and hydrated.

The best hot rollers for fine hair might seem simple to purchase, but you should only buy the best. But how do you know which is the best?

Here is a comprehensive buying guide and a review of the top tools for you.

How to Choose The Hot Rollers for Fine Hair

If your hair is really fine and thin, curling it might it a bit tricky. First, you will certainly need hot rollers that provide your hair extra volume because it looks boring and flat in its natural state.

Lack in volume is a common issue if your hair is fine, but if you get great hot units to give your head added texture and body, then you will be fine.

Another issue with fine hair is that it usually doesn’t hold curls.

Thin and fine hair is typically straight and when you try to style it, it reverts back to its natural form and you will just end up stressed. This is the reason why you require the added element of heat in your rollers, which locks your curl in place and enables it to remain there for a long time.

However, you need to be careful when dealing with heat because fine hair gets damaged easily by excess heat. This is the reason why you need to choose an effective hot device and make sure that your hair has additional protection beforehand.

Finally, you need to remember that the best hot rollers for fine hair that work for this type of hair are often different from other products (those that work for other hair types).

You might be fortunate and get a set that works for more than one hair type, but understanding what devices work for different hair types will surely guide you in styling them.

Types of Fine Hair Rollers

The number of firms producing hot devices for fine hair is huge, but all these brands use one of the following three technologies to generate the heat needed to form the curls. It’s vital for you to know these basic kinds of rollers before you make your choice.

• Sponge rollers – these types of rollers for fine hair use steam to heat up faster. They produce shiny curls within 10 minutes.
• Wax core rollers – these units have wax to enable them hold heat for a longer duration.
• Ceramic infused rollers – they use ionic tech and far infrared to produce heat. They are great for damaged and fine hair.

Best Hot Rollers for Fine Hair Review for 2018

• Best Hot Rollers for Fine Hair Review for 2018
  • 1. Remington H5600D – 20-Piece Multi-Sized Rollers
  • 2. Conair Compact – Multi-Size Hot Rollers
  • 3. Calista Tools Ion – Best Hot Rollers for Short Fine Hair
  • 4. Caruso Professional Caruso – Ion Molecular Hair Setter
  • 5. T3 Micro Voluminous Hot Rollers

​In Conclusion

The best hot rollers for fine hair are here to stay and will still form beautiful hairstyles that will last for a long time. The come with advanced technology that features tourmaline and ceramic to protect your hair from the heat. They also feature ionic and infrared technology to heat your hair from the inside to avert frizz and damage.

These tools also come in a wide range of prices, so you will be able to get a tool that won’t break your bank.

With that in mind, one of the best rollers on the market today is Caruso Professional Caruso Ion Molecular Hair Setter.
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Compared to other tools, this device set is easy to carry when going on a vacation. It is solid and comes with a beautiful carrying case that is ideal for transporting your device anywhere you want. The product produces three times heat more than other brands.
 
This article first appeared on Hair Magic In Motion

The Best Hair Loss Treatments

​Men’s Rogaine Unscented Foam
Best Overall for Men and Women

Kirkland Signature Regrowth Treatment Minoxidil Foam for Men
​Generic Runner-Up

Equate Hair Regrowth Treatment for Men
​Generic Runner-Up

HairMax Ultima 12 LaserComb
A Pricey Add-on Treatment

If you were to check your spam inbox right now, you’d probably find — among the fishy links and generous offers from Nigerian princes — at least a dozen offers for the best hair loss treatments money can buy. There’s a reason these offers tend to get clicks: A lot of people are losing their hair.

According to the American Hair Loss Association, two-thirds of American men will experience some degree of appreciable hair loss by the age of 35. By the age of 50, the number of men with “significantly” thinning hair shoots up to a staggering 85 percent. Women hardly have it any better. Though pop culture tends to associate hair loss with men (Julius Caesar’s hairline-hiding laurels, George Costanza’s shiny dome), women actually account for up to 40 percent of the total hair loss sufferers in the United States.

Men’s Rogaine Unscented Foam and its sister, Women’s Rogaine Foam, are our top picks. They’re both safe, non-prescription, and easily available. They are identical formulas in different bottles — ladies, apparently, need something with a flower on it. (Costco’s Kirkland Signature Regrowth Treatment Minoxidil Foam for Men is the cheapest generic.) The most important part of their ingredients list is minoxidil, a topical drug that has been clinically proven to slow hair loss and even regrow some hair.

Prescription finasteride (sold under the name Propecia) and at-home laser treatments, such as the FDA-approved HairMax Ultima 12 LaserComb, have also been shown to be effective. The key to halting your hairline is ultimately finding a hair loss regimen that works for you. A doctor is your best bet for that kind of guidance — but we can definitely tell you which treatments your scalp (and your wallet) should steer clear of.

How We Found the Best Hair Loss Treatment

“The most common cause of hair loss in both men and women is androgenetic alopecia, which is genetic pattern hair loss,” explains Dr. Michael B. Wolfeld, a board-certified plastic surgeon and an assistant clinical professor of plastic surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. The root cause of this type of hair loss is dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a byproduct of testosterone that shrinks certain hair follicles until they eventually stop producing hair.

Other medical conditions — most commonly telogen effluvium and seborrheic dermatitis — can also cause hair loss, but most people can trace their follicular woes back to androgenetic alopecia, so we focused our search there. We started with more than 200 products, including all-natural solutions and high-tech gadgets, while skipping treatments that focus only on volumizing or thickening hair. We also limited our scope to the scalp, and left out specialty products designed only for eyebrows or beards.

We dug into clinical studies and talked to experts in the field, who helped identify specific ingredients that have proven effective in combating hair loss and aren’t just snake oil.

The ugly truth: The vast majority of hair loss treatments boast exaggerated claims, and a startling number have absolutely no scientific backing whatsoever.

Our first step: eliminating those snake oils.

To us, that meant any product with zero proven ingredients, case studies, or FDA clearance — which shrunk our list by a whopping 180 contenders. That’s right, there are only three treatments that have actually been cleared by the FDA and supported with clinical studies: finasteride (commonly marketed as Propecia), minoxidil, and laser treatments. And, since finasteride is prescription-only, it left us with two.

With those pinned down, it wasn’t hard to determine which don’t actually work. Pretty much all the “active” ingredients listed in ineffective treatments — from biotin and zinc to emu oil and saw palmetto — have never been proven, and are instead marketed based on logical-seeming correlations. It would make sense that biotin, a B vitamin readily found in hair, skin, and nails, could help hair grow more quickly. And caffeine is a stimulant that works in coffee, so rubbing some on your scalp might wake some of those sleepy follicles… right?

Not so fast. Dr. Alex Khadavi, a board-certified dermatologist and associate professor of dermatology at the University of Southern California, says that it’s a good idea to approach all of these products with a skeptical eye. “There’s people selling pills and creams and lotions and whatever else, and sometimes you can’t even trust what ingredients they have in there,” he warned us when we spoke to him over the phone. Key takeaway: The hair loss industry is crazy dishonest.

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To plug or not to plug? That is the hairy question all men must one day face.
 To start, I’m a twenty-seven year old who’s been perpetually balding since I was 18.

It began when I reached my genetically predisposed peak of “growing my hair out” while in Uni. I had a supportive ex, who in retrospect, must have truly loved me for the sheer fact that my hair looked quite appalling.

He never spoke a word of my balding nature (note: he is colourist in Manhattan), and it wasn’t until my 40-something fill-in mum friend told me, “Honey, your hair looks like shit”, that I came out of the dark to accept that fact that I…in the prime of my youth…was balding.

Maybe that’s why I was given this piece to write in the first place. Does everyone at the D’Marge office have a beautiful head of hair? Do they not suffer from male pattern baldness? Is this a way for the beloved team to suggest I get hair plugs?

All these questions quickly came to mind when I saw this topic pop up in my inbox. Anyway, here we are. And as I sit here, with a cold draft passing over my nearly bald scalp, I can’t help but wonder if now is the time for hair plugs.

Considering The Final Plug

 I can’t lie. The word “hair plugs” carries negative stigma in my mind. It reminds me of my poorly groomed, Larry David-esque uncle from the Bronx who smokes one too many cigarettes on his sun-faded plastic patio furniture. He’s the candidate for hair plugs…not me.

You love him, but you can’t help but to notice the 7 slicked over hairs that fail to cover a polished scalp. Hair plugs…plugs…gah. As a stickler for words, some I just can’t get down with.

But when presented in different context, the idea of “plugging” my dead follicles doesn’t sound all too awful. I knew if I were to go forward with this thought, I’d have to designate its alternative terms, such as “hair transplant surgery” or “hair restoration”. Just please, don’t make me call it a hair “plug”.

Knowing The Procedures
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After I was able to come to fruition with this, I reached out to my cousin Tommy who does plastic surgery on Long Island. He doesn’t do hair transplants specifically, but I knew he’d have the information I needed to determine if I wanted hair revival or not.

There’s a few different ways to do it that did not sound appealing whatsoever: “flap surgery”, “tissue expansion”, “scalp reduction”…what the actual f*ck? But what truly resonated, and what is most common, was hair transplantation, a technique briefly referred to before.

The process is pretty simple. Someone who’s not my cousin uproots small pieces of lush hair from a donor site, and uses it as a graft to be implanted at the dead zone. It’s either that or I opt to tattoo hair onto my bald head. My body is already 25% covered in ink – I don’t need any more unless it’s truly a work of art I can admire everyday.

My dead zone is front-and-centre, Larry David style (thank you genetics), male pattern baldness. Because I have thick hair that covers the rest of my scalp, my cousin suggested that I’d make a brilliant candidate for transplant surgery.

He’s got mates that do it and I actually went ahead to schedule a consultation with one of them.

Letting Go Of Your Insecurities
​Do I feel vain or any less masculine because I want my hair back? No. Am I embarrassed to say I am considering plastic surgery for my hair? Absolutely not. I don’t believe a guy should feel discerned because he wants to have a full head of hair again.

Quite frankly, the main reason I haven’t thought about hair plugs…I mean, hair restoration surgery, is because I’ve grown used to my bi-weekly buzz. It works for my all-black, Doc Marten yielding winter-fall get up, as well as my achromatic grey, essential-only summer-spring style. I’ve grown comfortable with the low maintenance and clean look of nearly bald head.

But maybe now is the time for a change of style? Not in my clothes, but in my hair. While I don’t plan to look like Thor, more because I’m convinced I genetically can’t, a tapered comb-over with messy, long layers would be a nice change in contrast the utilitarian look I’ve been carrying for quite some time.

So in short my answer is, yes, I would get hair transplant surgery – with not an ounce of shame, vanity, or de-masculisation.

And I extend that same gesture to you out there, you balding wonder.
 
This article first appeared on D'Marge

The number one thought on most people’s mind post-chemo is how quickly will their hair grow back and what will it look like. Though I became quite fond of my bald head, the day chemo was over, I threw that love to the wind and put all my energy into regrowing my hair. After many nights of research, I settled on Biotin as my first plan of attack. I started taking the Biotin supplements the day my chemo ended (with my doctor’s approval) and I was so amazed by the results. My hair grew like weeds.

Though I was thrilled to have hair on my head again, I was not so thrilled about the hair that quickly sprouted EVERYWHERE else. One day, I even found 2 long hairs coming out of my cheeks! It was also around that time that I experienced a horrible bout of cystic acne, so I decided to take a break from the Biotin and exercise some patience.  I have since gone back on a lower dose of Biotin in a gummy form and have had no side effects.

Now I am about 13 weeks out from chemo and I am finding creative ways to style this odd little mess of hair on my head. As someone who has always had long hair, this is a new beast for me to tackle. As a beauty addict, I am taking this as just another beauty challenge. It’s a chance for me to try new styles, experiment with new products and build my confidence along the way.

As I started looking for information on how to style post-chemo hair I found that Google Image were greatly lacking. There were lots of articles on the topic, but very few photos. I wanted photos, real images of women post-cancer.  So after many unsuccessful searches, I finally stumbled upon Leo With Cancer. Her blog was everything I was looking for, beauty, fashion, hair and Dena is a breast cancer survivor. Jackpot!
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So in the spirit of growing the post-chemo hair inventory on Google, I figured I would dedicate a whole post to tips for hair regrowth, a hair growth timeline and tips for styling your fresh new baby hair. The best thing is, this post will be FILLED with tons of photos.

1. Biotin Supplement or Biotin Gummies
2. Hair Pomade 
3. Cute Headbands

The Faux Hawk
As your hair is beginning to grow in it will still be patching and the middle may be longer at first. Using water or hair paste (more effective) mold the middle into a mohawk with your hands. This is a way to add a playful fun touch to this length.

Headbands
Headbands are fantastic during this time. Look for headbands with thin sparkly bands. This will add some dimension to your hair and dress it up.

The comb over
Using hair paste comb your hair over to the side and define a deep side part. This will be easier the longer your hair looks. When we hear “comb over” we general think balding old men, but this look can actually look can actually be very feminine.

Fringe
The inclination when you are growing your hair out is to cut the hair around your ears, because it’s so dang annoying and somewhat unsightly. If you plan to grow your hair out longer, stay away from the scissor. Instead ask your hair stylist to feather that area. This will take away some of the weight and help the hair lay smoother, while still keeping the length.

Pixie
By about 6-8 months you will have more of a pixie look, which gives you more styling options. Investing in mini straightener and some touchable curl cream will allow you to easily options to wear your hair curly or straight. Hair oil is also great for smoothing the frizz that comes with chemo curls. You may also find that you need hydrating products at this stage to combat the dryness that comes with curly hair. The hydrating shampoo and conditioner from Pureology were lifesaving products for me.

Strong Eye Makeup & Brows
Strong eye makeup and brows can really balance out your face with a short hairdo. Strong brows  in particular will bring definition to your face.


Check out my updated Post-chemo hair styling article on I Had Cancer


This article first appeared on My Cancer Chic