Hair Growth Crash Course

Jump to your topic of interest:

BIOLOGY OF HAIR
0:52 Hair growth phases
2:55 Hair strand thickness
3:40 Hair volume
4:20 Hair curliness

PREVENT HAIR BREAKAGE
5:50 Minimize hair products
7:00 Stop hair abuse

GET HAIR GROWING
10:30 What to eat
14:00 Watch your hormones

How to get long hair.... I could talk for hours on the subject, but I broke this down into the most basic and most important topics, which may be expanded on in later videos.

Royalty-free music: "Modern Jazz Samba" by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Category:

Howto & Style

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• thickness
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• hormones
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[lilabug0306]

If you put things on your hair like feathers or hair clips, does this affect your hair growth too?

[bishonenrancher]

@lilabug0306 There shouldn't be any effect on your hair growth by putting clips or or clip-on extensions in your hair, as long as you're not pulling on the hair using tight weaves or glues, and as long as you're careful to not rip the hair when you remove the accessories. :)

[starsspeckle]

Hi can dandruff be cured?=)

[bishonenrancher]

@starsspeckle There are several zinc-based shampoos out there to kill the fungus that may cause dandruff, and you can also use natural remedies like apple cider vinegar. If you Google "ACV for dandruff" some recipes will come up for you. :)

[narutardsunite13]

How do I make the chlorine and sun less damaging to my hair?

[bishonenrancher]

@narutardsunite13 Before you go swimming in a chlorine pool, you can saturate your hair with regular water, or you can coat it in oil so your hair can't absorb the chlorine. Then you don't have to worry quite as much about the chlorine/sun bleaching reaction.

[bishonenrancher]

@mspinkytee I'm not sure why you're being defensive or arguing semantics. If you watch the video again, I never say that a circle is the only shape and I never said that curly hair is "unusual". As I stated before, I use the word "irregular" with the science definition of "lacking continuity or evenness". Organic systems are rarely geometric, and can be described as "irregular" when lacking symmetry or even arcs.

[bishonenrancher]

@mspinkytee It's true that curly hair may have more cysteine amino acids than straighter hair types, as it requires the sulfur bridges to keep its curl. I didn't say that round follicles are "not normal", I used the word "irregular" which means that it's not the same shape or smoothness all the way around. Straight hair may have oval or oblong follicles, but may still be fairly smooth. However every person has a different shape, I'm simply reporting on averages.

[narutardsunite13]

@bishonenrancher

Thank you! ^^

[bishonenrancher]

@KittyLover494 Most people grow their hair at a rate of 6 inches a year (mine is just a little faster, around 8 inches per year). There are serums that claim to make hair grow faster but I wouldn't trust them; as they may force all your follicles into anagen at the same time and then once you stop using the product, your follicles could go into telogen at the same time and give you the impression that all your hair is falling out. Just being patient and gentle with your hair is best. :)

[bishonenrancher]

@fashionspy96 My pleasure. :) My hair seems to change depending on the day as well; sometimes it's wavy, sometimes curly. :)

[KittyLover494]

Well I did used to have long hair but now it is in a bob shaped and I just want it long again but how could I do this in a fair amount of time i want it to be at least up to my chest atm the fount of the hair is at my shoulders and the back is about 1.5cm above the bone at the back of my neck!! Please help ;'(