HAIR COLOR, BLEACH – AND HAIR LOSS Only the harshest bleaches and dyes can cause temporary or permanent hair loss. There are kinder and gentler ways to color hair – some of which enhance the texture.   Where it comes to coloring your hair and its sometimes-deleterious effects – breakage […]

THE MECHANICS OF A GOOD HAIRBRUSH – TO KEEP YOUR EXISTING HAIR! Hair loss or not, brushing hair is smart, but there is such a thing as too much brushing. Also, different brushes are made for different types of hair.   Something people with short hair, or no hair at […]

MENOPAUSE AND HAIR LOSS Treatment after the fact of losing one’s hair might not fully restore your follicles. Here are four key points to guide you and your scalp to keeping a fuller, richer head of hair.   Hair loss in women is more common than most people think. Over […]

HAIR LOSS PREVENTION FOR MEN Treatment after the fact of losing one’s hair might not fully restore your follicles. Here are four key points to guide you and your scalp to keeping a fuller, richer head of hair.   In some families, most or all the men lose their hair […]

ALOPECIA UNIVERSALIS: TOTAL HAIR LOSS Some people lose all hair everywhere, from head to toe. It’s life altering but not life threatening – and there are some medications that restore hair growth.   One of the most vexing aspects of alopecia universalis – the loss of hair over the entire […]

HAIR LOSS PREVENTION FOR WOMEN Some forms of hair loss in women, including the most common type (androgenic alopecia), can be prevented or stopped. It’s a fairly common problem.   Benjamin Franklin – speaking about fires – once stated, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” a […]

FOLLICULAR UNIT EXTRACTION (FUE) HAIR TRANSPLANTS: HOW IT WORKS To understand how FUE is an advancement in hair replacement, it helps to know what came before it. Plus, it corrects the maddening injustice of hairy backs as the noggin goes hairless. The irony of hair loss – in particular, male […]

THE FDA AND HAIR LOSS TREATMENTS The introduction of a new, FDA-approved hair loss drug is a breakthrough for millions of people suffering from severe alopecia areata. Two hair loss treatments with approval from the Food and Drug Administration have restored hair loss to millions of people for a generation. […]

TOUPEES, WIGS & HAIR SYSTEMS: SYNTHETIC VERSUS NATURAL HAIR With both materials offering different advantages, it might make sense for the wearer to have one or more of both synthetic and natural human hair wigs for different occasions and purposes.   People have all kinds of reasons to purchase and […]

MAX FACTOR, WIGS, AND HOLLYWOOD He beautified Russian royalty and became the king of Hollywood cosmetology. Always innovating, he figured out how to reformulate for evolving film technologies.   “Max Factor” sounds like a branding invention, as if from a roomful of marketing wizards sometime back in the Mad Men […]