A woman wants to be beautiful - such is her female nature. Long hair is considered the standard of female beauty in almost all the peoples of the world, but this requires a lot of time, care and patience. Not every woman can boast of healthy and long hair - frequent dyeing, fashionable haircuts, exposure to temperature and precipitation, hormonal imbalance and a number of other reasons do not contribute to the growth of beautiful hair.
In these cases, the beauty industry came up with a solution - artificial hair extensions. In a couple of hours of the master’s work, your appearance can change beyond recognition, but this artificial beauty also has a downside.
What type of procedure is more harmful?
Before building curls, you need to objectively assess the condition of your hair. Growth is performed in different ways, but regardless of the method, it has one important consequence - the strands become a source of excess weight, which must be sustained by the hair follicles. If by nature your hair does not have sufficient strength, the procedure for securing additional strands can be a disaster - the hair will begin to fall out or break off due to gravity. In addition, hair follicles under the weight of additional curls do not receive enough nutrition and oxygen supply. You must admit that such a test is not suitable for thin or weak hair, and there is little healthy benefit from such manipulations.
There is an opinion actively disseminated by hairdressers that the result of building is safe, the main thing is to choose a professional specialist, and then negative consequences can be avoided. But even if the master will apply the latest technology of the procedure, in any case, you will feel discomfort when wearing the extended strands.
Today, there are many ways to build curls, and all of them can be divided into the so-called "cold" methods and "hot".
- Ribbon extension - for this cold type of procedure, a special tape with locks of hair is applied, on which a sticky adhesive is applied on both sides, thanks to which the tape is fixed on your hair. The method is quite simple to use - the tape is easy to attach and it can also be easily removed if exposed to the adhesive layer with special means that destroy the adhesive composition.
- Capsule extension - this procedure can be performed both cold and hot. The cold technique is that artificial locks are fixed on your hair with the help of special metal clips in the form of a small capsule. With the hot method, the strand is attached using hot glue - it is also used in the form of a capsule in a small amount.
- Stress building - This is a cold method of fixing artificial or natural locks of hair. Tresses are strips in the form of a thin cord into which hairs are woven. The method of securing the tresses is very original - on the back of the head you are braided with a pigtail in the horizontal direction, to which tresses are sewn with special durable threads.
When assessing the harm to one’s own hair, it is necessary to understand that any method - cold or hot - does not matter if it is harmful. It’s almost impossible to choose the most harmful method of building up for one reason - without exception, they are all harmful. On the hair is not only physical stress on the weight of the additional strands, but also chemical - from the use of fixing or removing adhesive structures, as well as thermal - at the time of their fixing.
Do not think that with a new volume and length of hair you can wear a variety of hairstyles. Such curls look decent only when they are worn in a loose form. It will not be possible for you to assemble them into a complex design, since people will see the attachment points of donor hair, and such a sight, you see, is not the most aesthetic.
After a month, the entire structure will require correction, which means that your curls will again be subjected to a serious test - some part of the strands will need to be removed and secured again, or all the strands need to be detached and rearranged a little higher. Additional strands tend to get entangled in tangles - artificial materials are especially prone to this. To unravel such curls, you will need to make a lot of effort and time, while your hair is severely damaged.
Does your hair deteriorate and how to prevent it?
Not wanting to spend long time, money and effort to grow their own luxurious hair, some ladies resort to their extension, however, it is impossible to constantly wear artificial strands on their hair from year to year. No matter how universal the fixing methods are, the time comes when there is a desire or need to part with artificial curls. Prolonged wearing of even the most beautiful hair extensions not only causes fatigue, but also negatively affects your nervous system. Judge for yourself - day after day you experience a feeling of heaviness and irritation from the attachment of donor hair on your head. It doesn’t matter what material and how this fastening is made - whether it be sticky tapes, tresses or capsules made of metal or ceramics, during a night's rest you will certainly feel the unpleasant and sometimes painful effects of foreign objects on the scalp.
During sleep, the hair is prone to tangling, so you have to braid it in a braid before bedtime - it may not always be convenient for you, and the hair itself does not rest. During combing, difficulties are also waiting for you - it will not be possible to quickly go through the comb through the hair to bring them in order.The procedure will require much more time and patience so as not to cling to the attachment points. But that is not all. The process of washing your hair will also become a rather difficult task - in order to rinse well and not to confuse the hair in one big curl, you will need a certain amount of dexterity, as well as a reserve of time and patience.
If you still come to terms with the idea of parting with false curls, be prepared for the fact that the state of your own hairstyle will disappoint you. After removing the extensions, your hair looks lifeless. You will find that many of them have fallen out and in some places bald patches have formed, the strands have deteriorated, become thin, light, while combing, the hair “climbs”, falling out in large numbers. Such changes occurred because those of your strands that held extra hair extended because of the weight of the capsule or glue materials and the weight of the hair itself, because the longer the donor strand, the heavier it is in weight. During wearing, due to constant load, the hair shaft becomes damaged, becomes unstable, and the follicles themselves begin to become injured and decrease in size due to lack of nutrition.
Often, women after long wearing donor strands find that their head is pretty bald. A bald spot appears in those areas where excessively strong tension of one's own hair occurs under the weight of overheads. Often the cause of the loss of their curls is an allergic reaction to resins, glue and even the metal from which the capsules are made. There is only one way to prevent such consequences - to abandon the idea of hair extensions or use disposable overhead strands that are used for some special occasions and are used throughout the day, after which they detach the scalp and hair without harming the health.
Why does the head itch and what to do about it?
Attachment sites of donor strands can cause irreparable damage associated with a violation of the structure of not only the hair, but also the scalp. Every day, your skin will undergo mechanical friction of foreign bodies (capsules, glue, tapes and other components), which will inevitably lead to the appearance of microtrauma of the epidermis, which will be accompanied by pustular rashes, which are quite severely manifested by itching and the appearance of dandruff. Dandruff is a constant companion of hair extensions - after washing your hair, moisture in the joints of its own and artificial strands evaporates from the surface of the skin much more slowly than usual. Thus, an ideal environment for the development of fungal organisms is created on the scalp, manifested by peeling of the epidermis in the form of flakes of dandruff of various intensities.
In order not to experience severe itching, it is recommended to use pharmacy products to combat dandruff in the form of sprays or therapeutic shampoos, as well as thoroughly dry your hair after washing. If the attachment points squeeze the scalp excessively, you must contact the master who performed the procedure and ask him to rearrange the strands and loosen their tension.
Other possible problems and solutions
After fixing donor strands for your hair, you will need some care. Often, experts recommend using liquid keratin to improve the appearance of hair. This tool has long been adopted by modern fashionistas who love smooth and even hair. However, when applied to hair, there are a number of nuances that must be observed. For example, it is very important during the procedure to remove keratin residues from the hair before drying and straightening.
With hair extensions, this is quite problematic, and if left in large quantities on the hair, keratin can get on the scalp, causing it to irritate, and sometimes plaques very similar to psoriasis can result from such irritation.The way out of this situation is to replace liquid keratin with hair masks containing keratin in a more gentle amount.
Standing upright is best during the shampooing process. - only in this position the curls under their own weight and heaviness of water will not increase the load of the strands on their own hair follicles. Water and steam when washing hair contribute to tangles of strands, especially those made of synthetic fibers. Unraveling the tussles can be very difficult. Therefore, you need to wipe the hair with blotting movements, trying not to confuse them even more, then you need to comb them with a comb with frequent large teeth and only after that engage in their drying.
A fairly common problem of false hair is alopecia. You are unlikely to manage this condition, and only a trichologist can help you. You will be advised to part with false curls, after which the doctor will conduct an examination and identify all causes of baldness. It is not only long and difficult to treat, but also expensive. In order not to come to such a sad ending in the pursuit of beauty, you need to weigh all the pros and cons of hair extensions and make a choice in the direction of natural beauty and health.
Reviews
The beauty industry is gaining momentum from year to year and offers consumers new products that help solve almost all problems. Now it’s not enough impossible - curly hair can be straightened, straight hair can be curled, and short hair can be extended. Each method has a number of advantages and disadvantages, so there can be no unambiguous opinions on this matter. Doctors and trichologists sound the alarm that in the pursuit of ghostly beauty, people lose their health, and stylists and hairdressers assure in every way that nothing terrible will happen. However, everything in this world is relative.
According to the reviews of women who have experienced all the “charms” of building artificial curls, the vast majority of them regret the lost health of their hair and under no circumstances would dare to repeat such a desperate experiment on themselves.
Dermatologists and trichologists unanimously agree that such procedures sometimes cause irreparable damage to the skin and hair, the consequences of which have to be corrected for years, and sometimes with varying degrees of success. Experts are trying to convey to the masses the idea of a healthy attitude to their own beauty. In pursuit of a short external gloss, people lose what their nature has awarded, and then try to correct their own mistakes.
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