Eugene Davis Hair

Fabric of Hair Investigates:
Clean hair products?
Natural hair care products?
Organic hair products?
What’s the difference?
And is that difference important? 🧐

Just the same way you care about the products you use on your skin or the food you eat, you should care about the products you use on your hair. The ingredients in these products can have a big effect on your hair’s health, which can, in turn, have a big effect on your hair’s appearance and, in your confidence in your appearance.

Unfortunately, many hair care products contain ingredients that aren’t very good for your hair. These ingredients may perform a specific task well, but, ultimately, they’ll hurt your hair and risk breakage, thinning, and other undesirable effects.

Example:
You know how your shampoo turns to foam when you mix it with water in the shower or bath? For many shampoos, that state change is because of sulfates.
Sulfates are the ingredients that help shampoo mix with water. They create that pleasant, foaming sensation that makes your hair feel nice and squeaky clean.

From one perspective, they do their job. They help your shampoo effectively remove oil, dirt, and dead skin from your hair. They make your shampoo better at cleaning your hair.

But from another perspective, sulfates are actually bad for your hair. Sulfates, particularly in high concentrations, are so effective that they can cause damage to your scalp and hair. They are such good cleaners that they strip away the proteins and oils that your scalp and hair need to thrive. Without these proteins and oils, your hair becomes weak and more prone to breakage and damage.

Sulfates can also cause a painful skin condition called contact dermatitis, which is a red, itchy rash caused by an allergic reaction to a substance.

Hair Care Ingredients to Avoid

Here’s a short list of common hair care ingredients you should avoid due to their potential negative effects:

• Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS)
• Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES)
• Methylparaben
• Ethylparaben
• Propylparaben. Let me break it down:
• Clean hair products: “Clean” is an industry-standard term that refers to products that don’t use dangerous chemicals like sulfates and parabens.
• Organic hair products: The term “organic” is regulated by the USDA. For something to be labelled as organic (whether that’s your food or your shampoo), it needs to be grown without use of pesticides, chemicals, artificial fertilizers, and more. Something that’s labeled as 100% organic must contain at least 95% certified organic ingredients. Something that’s labeled as “made with organic ingredients” must contain at least 70% certified organic ingredients.
• Natural hair care products: The term “natural” is less regulated. Technically, harmful substances like arsenic and petroleum are natural. To keep us safe, the Natural Products Association requires that certified natural products avoid ingredients with health risks.

Ultimately, you’ll want to choose clean hair products that lack dangerous ingredients like sulfates and parabens.

Products with natural or organic ingredients may still contain these chemicals. Make the safe choice for your hair and go clean. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fabric of Hair Investigates: How and Why Hair Loss Happens🧐

Before we can get into whether or not Nioxin products actually work for hair loss, it’s important to quickly go over the basics of how and why hair loss happens.

Most hair loss in men and women are the result of Androgenetic alopecia, or pattern hair loss, is a form of hair loss that’s caused by a mix of genetic and hormonal factors.

This is a type of hormonal and genetic hair loss that can cause you to develop a receding hairline or bald patch as you get older.

Pattern hair loss develops due to a mix of genetic factors and the effects of an androgenic hormone, or male sex hormone, called dihydrotestosterone (DHT).

Your body produces DHT as a by product of testosterone. When you’re young, DHT plays a key role in the development of male features, including facial hair, body hair and more. It’s one of several hormones that makes men identify as a male.

Unfortunately, DHT also has negative effects inside your body. One of which is its ability to bind to receptors in your scalp and cause your hair follicles to miniaturize, or shrink.

In women the Luteinizing hormone in the blood then travels to the Leydig cells in the ovaries in women and stimulates them to produce more testosterone. As testosterone in the blood increases, more of this hormone is also converted to
dihydrotestosterone, resulting in higher levels of DHT.

Over time, DHT can cause your hair follicles to spend less time producing new hairs, leading to thinner, shorter hair follicles.

Part of a good haircare routine for thin hair (and all other hair types) is having the right products, regimen to support a helathy scalp follicle and cuticle strands.

NIOXIN has over 30 years of expertise.

Who is it for? 
Nioxin works best for people who have non-scarring alopecia, meaning that their hair follicles still have potential for hair regrowth. In scarring alopecia, the hair follicle is irreparable due to destruction of stem cells.

The most common type of hair loss is androgenic alopecia, which is non-scarring and can affect both men and women.

When we look at Nioxin’s hair care products, a few active ingredients stand out from the others: serenoa serrulata (also referred to as saw palmetto), peppermint oil, pantothenic acid (referred to as vitamin B5) and niacinamide.

Several of these products are linked to improvements in hair growth. For example, saw palmetto is a berry extract that may reduce local DHT levels, that will in result will increase hair growth.

Niacinamide and pantothenic acid, or vitamin B5, are also linked to hair health and improved hair fullness in men and women.

Overall, Nioxin’s hair care products contain active ingredients that are linked to improvements in hair health and density. Nixon is dedicated and developing solutions for fine hair, thinning hair, and hair fall.
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Fabric of Hair investigates: Turmeric origins and trends 🧐

For centuries, turmeric has been widely used in Middle Eastern and South Asian cuisines and medicinal practices. In fact, India produces the largest amount of turmeric in the world and consumes 80% of it. The past couple years the West has started to catch on to turmeric’s benefits and gain inspiration from its traditional usage. From turmeric supplements, lattes, and facial oils, this superfood trend has dominated the beauty and wellness industry.

What are the health benefits of turmeric?
The active ingredient in turmeric, curcumin, has significant anti-inflammatory properties so it is commonly used as a remedy toreduce inflammation. Also, it’s a skincare favorite spice because it contains vitamin C and antioxidants that protects the skin from sun damage and aging. Daily consumption (oral or applicable) is beneficial for your body, skin and hair.

Turmeric Hair Oil
Turmeric’s anti-fungal and antibacterial properties can treat scalp conditions and irritations such as dandruff, fungus, dryness, and itchiness. The spice creates a healthier environment on your scalp and promotes healthier hair as it reduces breakage and hair loss.

Prevents hair loss: Turmeric’s anti-inflammatory powers are a major boon to thinning hair, as it may stimulate growth. Most hair loss is caused at least on some level due to inflammation. Reducing inflammation, in turn, reduces the impact of pattern hair loss or directly inflammatory hair loss on the scalp and hair follicles.

Protects hair from environmental stressors: Free radicals can wreak havoc on your hair, scalp, and complexion, but one of the many reasons antioxidants like turmeric are so loved is because they fight them off. As a result, hair follicles are protected from damage by harmful molecules.

TURMERIC Fast Facts:
Type of ingredient: Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant.
Main benefits: Treats dandruff, helps with hair loss, and is antibacterial.
Who should use it? Anyone looking for a hair growth boost, to keep their scalp healthy, or to treat dandruff.
How often can you use it? As often as needed.
Works well with: When using turmeric to treat dandruff, pair it with soothing and hydrating ingredients, such as olive oil.
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Fabric of Hair Investigates: Balancing Your Scalp Microbiome, Does It Solve Hair-Care Problems?🧐

Thanks to the wellness-world buzz surrounding the microbiome over the last few years, You might know that your body is teeming with bacteria. And believe it or not, that’s actually a good thing. When they’re properly balanced.

For a long time we have known the benefits of a healthy microbiome in other parts of our bodies, however we’re just now starting to learn more about the impact it can have on our scalp and hair health.

The microbiome is an ecosystem of bacteria, fungus, and parasites that lives on the surface of your skin, as well as your scalp. “Your scalp microbiome is very similar to your skin microbiome, but the only difference is that the inside of hair follicle itself technically has its own microbiome. Your follicles push out sebum (the natural oil that makes your hair greasy when you go a few days without washing it)—which the bacteria and fungus on your scalp will feed on.

Like your skin microbiome, your scalp’s microbiome is its first line of defense against the outside world, which means that keeping it in check is critical to your overall hair health. Keeping the microbiome balanced basically means fighting off the negative microbes that harm the skin or scalp while preserving and nourishing its benefits. When this balance is disrupted, where the negative microbes become dominant and overpower the positive microbes.

There are a number of things that can lead to this sort of disruption, most of which start with your daily hair-care rituals. Some common causes include product buildup, dead-cell, and dirt accumulation, stripping the scalp from over-washing hair, and not properly drying the hair after you shower, since the damp environment is ideal for bacteria to grow.

The products you use on your hair and scalp can, understandably, have an impact on what’s going on up there too. Though you won’t be able to see any sort of imbalance on the microscopic level, it will eventually show itself on a larger scale that will be hard to miss. Disruption of the microbiome can alter your scalp’s immune response, which can lead to issues like seborrheic dermatitis and psoriasis.

In conclusion: The scalp microbiome, when in good health, is a beneficial ecosystem of living bacteria. When in balance it can defend against and recover from aggression.

But if the fragile balance of this microbiome is weakened, scalp ailments and discomfort start to emerge.🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

Fabric of Hair Educates: Embracing your Hair Type 🥸

Transitioning back to natural curls can be challenging when you’ve been chemically straightening, flat ironing, or doing anything but embracing your God-given curl pattern. Don’t worry, we’ve got you! Kickstart your journey back to healthy hair with a few vetted hair care tips.

Learn the Art of Patience
Contrary to popular belief, transitioning doesn't happen overnight. Whether you decide to gradually grow out a relaxer or go all out for a big chop, know that it's going to take some time—three to four months or thereabout—to start seeing some real changes. Hang in there and manage your expectations the best you can!
It'll be tough, no doubt, but try to be patient. Use this waiting period to get to know your natural hair inside-out. Do you know your hair type and porosity level?
These identifiers can be key in creating a product regiment and routine that best suits your natural hair.

Give Your Transitioning Hair Some TLC
While practicing patience is important, it’s also crucial to give your hair loads of love while you’re at it. Utilizing tools that are gentle on your strands is key. This is especially true for the point where your natural texture meets your straight hair or damaged ends (it's called the line of demarcation). This is the MOST fragile part of your length and, by default, deserves a little more TLC.

Your hair is most delicate when it's wet. Take your time when you detangle and style your hair so as to avoid breakage at the line of demarcation (and elsewhere)! Using gentle tools like wide-toothed combs or brushes designed for wet hair are good swaps. Try to stay away from fine-tooth combs or brushes that pull and snag on your hair when it’s wet.

Moisturize,Moisturize!
Moisturizing is arguably the single most important thing you can do for your transitioning hair to maintain its elasticity and keep the fragile curls growing. As your natural curls come in, it might be a little harder for the scalp's natural oils to move down the hair shaft, making moisturizing all the more important.
Look for a leave-in moisturizer that pulls together hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and penetrating oils like grapeseed and avocado oil. Stay away from drying ingredients, such as all of the alcohols and ingredients that will disturb your true pattern.

Growing out curls doesn’t have to be intimidating. Your journey to natural, pride-inducing curls is as unique as you are. Don’t rush the process, but enjoy the results! By implementing a few of these tips, your journey to re-discovering your natural curl pattern will be faster, easier and healthier overall.
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Article taken from www.revair.com

Fabric of Hair Investigates:
What Causes Natural Curls to Lose Their Curl Pattern?🧐

Our hair is an integral part of our identity and style. As such, it's understandable that any changes to our curl pattern can be alarming, no matter how small. Waking up to hair that feels brittle, stiff, and lacks its usual flow and movement makes any style feel lackluster. Working with damaged curls can be frustrating, but our team is here with some tips to help your curls get their bounce back.

Don't worry; your curl pattern isn't gone forever. A little careful curl therapy can bring your lovely locks back to life. However, it's good to keep in mind factors that cause your curls to unravel so you can avoid future natural hair havoc.

A few of the top ways that curls can become weak and lose their shape include:

• Heat Damage. Excessive heat styling causes the protein bonds in each curl to break down over time. Cuticle protein is what gives curls their shape and integrity. As these bonds unravel, so do your curls! Steer clear of over-processing your natural curls with blowdryers and flat irons that use high heat and damaging tension and instead look for styles to honor your hair's natural shape and texture.

• Chemical Treatments. Love to mix up your hair color? We love creativity when it comes to natural hair but don't love the damage frequent chemical treatments leave behind. From bleaching and lightening to relaxers and perms, chemical treatments wear down your hair over time and change the unique make up of your curl pattern.

• Environmental Factors. Our hair feels the seasonal blues as much as any of us. Low humidity strips moisture from our natural curls, which in turn ruins their elasticity and youthful spring. Combined with wind, rain, and UV exposure from natural sunlight, environmental factors play a big role in making or breaking our hair.

• Lack of Routine. Natural curls require a curl-friendly home hair care regimen. Without consistent curl care, damage can build up over time until it begins to affect the curl pattern itself.

Luckily, developing a natural hair repair plan provides the perfect opportunity for implementing a home hair care routine you can stick to.

Article taken from: www.myrevair.com

Fabric of Hair Trend Watch: 🤩

The only major hair rule this summer?
There are no rules. Braids are back, as is ‘70s volume with curtain bangs, and every hair color in the spectrum is fair game. Expect creativity to hit top of the charts for spring summer 2022.

The laid-back look is making its way into 2022, which isn’t a surprise. As more and more people ditch hot tools and become comfortable wearing their natural textured hair.

Braids incorporated into up do’s, or top knot are just the right amount of put-together-meets-messy without being too disheveled but fashionably on trend.
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Fabric of Hair Highlights Herstory:
The Christina 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

In 1949 a woman by the name of Christina Jenkins was working with a wig-making company and decided to consider an alternative way of attaching hair without the use of any heat or chemicals.

She wanted to create an extension system that would be as secure as the wigs she designed.

Christina developed the idea of attaching hair to a net to which was then sewn onto a cornrow base created on the client.

This method evolved to what Christina Jenkins referred to as Hair Weaving.

Christina patented her idea in 1951 and travelled worldwide to teach her technique. She then launched a training academy to which people came from near and far to attend.

This technique has now transpired into years of experiment and redesign which is now commonly known as the weave, micro-weave, and sew in weave.

Hair extensions are widely used today for numerous reason, usually to add length, volume, color, or effective hair replacement due to hair loss.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Fabric of hair Investigates: The Skinification of Hair, Part 2
Ceramides🧡💛🧡💛

What are ceramides are and why they are important to your hair's health?

Ceramides are a type of lipid and a natural component of hair, found in the cuticle, the outermost layer that protects and provides strength to the hair shaft.

The cuticle is composed of a number of dead cells that overlap each other resembling roof shingles. Ceramides bind these “scales” of the cuticle together and in the case of healthy hair; result in smooth, silky strands.

In damaged hair, however, the ceramides are absent, which results in dull, coarse and dry strands.

Though ceramides occur naturally in the hair, overuse of chemical treatments, excessive use of heat appliances and over-cleansing in time depletes ceramides and leads to raised cuticles.

Ceramides keep the hair cuticle flat, helping to smooth hair, enhance shine and allow hair to endure wear and tear over time. They promote elasticity and moisture retention, and aid in strengthening hair.

Ceramides are most beneficial to chemically treated hair including coloring, bleaching and relaxing.

Incorporating products with natural oils that contain ceramides into your regimen will help to keep the condition of your hair in check. Even if your hair looks and feels great, adding treatments with ceramides can only elevate your hair health.

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Fabric of Hair Investigates:
Are We Being Priced Out Of Maintaining Our Hair ? 🧐

I often get asked the question, as to why are hair care products so expensive?

There are several factors that go into creating quality hair products such as ingredients, packaging and personalization.

Natural ingredients yield higher price tags when it comes to ingredients. Products that are rich in natural ingredients perform higher, and thus the cost is more. Synthetic products cost less because of the cheaper ingredients that are found in them.

How do manufacturing costs play a role in pricing?

#1. Quality Ingredients
The quality of your hair care products plays a huge role in your hair’s health and appearance.
You can have a range of ingredients like Almond milk, Avocado oil, Jojoba oil, other essential oils alongside Manuka honey, etc. The high cost of getting these ingredients and extracting their essence is responsible for their high cost.

#2. Demand
With more people embracing their texture type, the demand for natural ingredient hair products has increased.

#3. Business Costs
The cost of running a business also influences the cost of hair products. The manufacturers of natural ingredient hair products are tasked with incurring many costs outside the cost of production. These costs range from legal fees to trademarks, licensing, and patenting fees. It can include intellectual property fees, insurance for recalls, storage, transportation fees, sampling costs, etc.

#4. Targeted nature
Some hair products are formulated to meet the needs of a highly targeted audience with a textured hair type. Of course, natural hair has a gradient of textures, but it is still a targeted product as it is designed to satisfy particular demographic.

Natural ingredient hair products are known for their efficacy. So much work goes into producing them that it sometimes justifies the price. As you see improvement in hair quality, you’re no longer in the realm of products infused with synthetic ingredients that cost less, and are harmful to your hair and overall health.

So, the next time you’re in the market for haircare supplies, don’t stop to think about what you’re spending. Instead, think about the hair wealth you’d be tapping into.

Natural ingredient hair products are more expensive because they contain rich, organic ingredients that are not just effective but safe for you.💛🤍💛🤍💛
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Fabric of Hair Review:
KEYS SOULCARE Nourishing Cleansing Balm🤩

I just want to start by saying from the moment I opened the box my journey begin. Not only was the packaging beautiful, but the scent of sage and oat milk was comforting and I could not wait to start my experience.

My skin tends to get dehydrated during the winter months from heating system and the cold air outside. So I tend to be cautious with what I clearOne my face with not to dry it out. However applying the Nourishing Cleansing Balm, I instantly felt the product melt and release the oils, and goodness pack in this jar.

This is one of the best balms I’ve used and is perfect for a winter hydrating cleanse, leaving my skin soothed and refreshed.
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Fabric of Hair Investigates: Beauty Is More Diverse, But Is Diverse Enough? 🧐

When it comes to looking your best, and in b beauty there is one common denominator. We are all uniquely different.

While we are all human, we differ in race, age, religion, ability, size, gender identity, and sexuality.

Each of us has a specific DNA formula that considers how we differ, making us distinctively unique. This is not a new discovery, but only recently has the beauty and hair industry engaged this opportunity.

The universal beauty landscape has changed, breaking free from the stereotypical view of beauty that has afflicted us for far too long.

Companies are drawing in an extensive range of customers, making beauty more accessible by exploring non-traditional markets and underserved communities, providing a personalized and niche experience for the consumer.

The beauty and hair industries are successfully becoming more inclusive by catering to all individuals, regardless of their gender, age, religion, skin tone, skin type.

Beauty without bias is a clear win.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Fabric of Hair Celebrates Black History:
Freedom in Hairstyle🧡💛🧡💛

The history of slavery is filled with stories of significant innovation and sheer resilience. One of these is how the slaves in Colombia, South America devised ways to escape slavery through the use of art created in cornrows.

In that time, hair braiding was used to relay messages.
For example, to signal that they wanted to escape, women would create braided hairstyle called departes.

Departes signature style consisted of tight braids, braided closely to the scalp and was tied up into buns on the top.

This amazing communication skill has now become a fashion statement called Cornrows, which have rich African origins; are now common all over the world.

This traditional hairstyle is steeped in the history of revolution and redemption.

Note: Cornrows are a “style of hair braiding, in which the hair is braided very close to the scalp, using an underhand, upward motion to make a continuous, raised row.

In the Caribbean Islands, they are also known as “cane rows” to mean “slaves planting sugar cane”, and not corn.

This style of design have a long history. As it is thought cornrows initially came from the Stone Age paintings in the Tassili Plateau located in the Sahara region. The usage of cornrows dates back to 3000 B.C.

Also a known fact they usage of cornrows by men can be traced as far back as the early 5th century BC.

This hairstyle has had its experience of being disfavored in formal spaces, workplaces and educational institutions, especially in the Western hemisphere.

However for people of African origin and decent, cornrows are rich with cultural heritage and historical pride.😍😍😍😍😍

Fabric of Hair Celebrates Black History: The HAIRITAGE of Diana Ross⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Diana Ross the Icon has aged beautifully through her 50+ years in show business. Getting her start as an original member of The Supremes in the 1960s, the lead singer was destined to be a star. Using her unique style and voice, she turned herself into an enigmatic brand. Along with her No. 1 hits and hall of fame accolades, it’s her hair that always reigned supreme.🤩

Fabric of Hair Investigates: Does Hollywood Need To Start Hiring More Black Hairstylists and Makeup Artists?🧐

Despite Hollywood's efforts to indulge to audiences with diverse casting, they have failed to do systemic work behind the scenes to ensure cast members are treated equitably.

Creating a more inclusive topography should be easy; if you’re talented but it’s not so simple, partly because the pool of talent used for movies and television shows primarily comes from a nostalgic school of thought in the labor unions.

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) represents many of the behind-the-scenes workers in the entertainment industry; this group includes more than 375 unions.

Television and film productions must use them to stay in line with the employment rules that they're legally obligated to follow.

These powerful beauty-focused unions require artists to complete a certain number of paid workdays on a film, television, or commercial set and provide documentation in order to apply for membership.

Accumulating the necessary number of hours can be difficult without the right connections. In some cases, experience doing editorial and red-carpet work counts toward those hours; but in many cases, it does not qualify.

Actors have put in requests to have their own makeup artist or hairstylist, but not everyone gets the privilege and not everyone asks for it. It’s also a known fact that producers don't always want to put in their budgets to spend extra money on Black talent.

Many Black actors, actresses in entertainment, have repeatedly spoken out to the injustice of having to do their own hair and makeup on set.

Black actresses and actors are hired to do the same job as their non-black cast members, yet may not be afforded the same experienced talent versed in their skin and hair needs to look and feel confident on set.

For too long, we have turned a blind eye to the need of inclusive workspaces to represent all members of our society, for all workers to have an equal opportunity to enter the entertainment industry.

Some progress is being made, but it's clear that the larger system of the entertainment industry is due for a restructure.

There are steps in the right direction, but we need a quicker pace. Progress will only come if the industry is continuing to be held accountable, whether that be through social media call-outs or more actors advocating for equal treatment on set.

The more uproar that is made, the closer we get to authentic inclusivity. The conversation will continue to pursue moderation until hiring qualified Black hair and makeup artist is no longer a red-tapeism. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Fabric of Hair Investigates: The Resurrection of the Hair Relaxers 🧐

Chemical hair relaxers are designed to straighten extremely curly, coiled or tightly coiled textured hair by breaking down the disulfide bonds found within the cortex layer of the hair.

Hydroxide and Thio are the most common types of hair relaxers.

Hydroxide relaxer types include sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, lithium hydroxide and guanidine hydroxide.

Thio relaxers differ from hydroxide relaxers in a few ways. The pH of thio relaxers is typically around 10 whereas the pH of hydroxide relaxers is approximately 13.

Also, oxidizing agents like hydrogen peroxide or sodium bromate is used to neutralize thio relaxers.

How Do Relaxers Work?

During a chemical relaxing procedure of a hydroxide relaxer a process called lanthionization occurs, which is the breaking of a disulfide bonds to alter the curl pattern of the hair.

Note: Lanthionization is the process by which hydroxide relaxers permanently straighten hair.

During this process the curl pattern is loosened or relaxed.

The cortex is thus elongated, stretching the original curl pattern, therefore making this a permanent alteration.

What is wrong with getting hair too straight?

If you relax the hair until it is super straight or 100%, you are essentially over relaxing and damaging the hair.

This removes any degree of elasticity, thus weakening the hair.

Over a period of time of continuous over relaxation, blow drying and hot mantience tools, the hair will become damaged and prone too breakage.

To avoid irreparable damage and maintain the integrity of the hair, it is recommend to straighten the hair 65% – 75% when using this straightening process.

Introducing texlaxing and how does it differ from a traditional chemical relaxer?

Texlaxing is a hair processing method in which clients choose to under-process their natural curl pattern with the use of chemical relaxer, resulting in a textured appearance and feel.

Texlaxing differs from the traditional chemical process by using a mild strength relaxer and monitoring the application time closely.

Despite the widespread use of relaxers, many consumers and stylist have not considered how they actually work on a scientific level.

Relaxers are a personal choice and are perfectly safe, when done properly and in the caring hands of the professional. When the consumer is educated on what’s happening to the hair during the process, and what it take to keep that hair in good health.

With correct information we can now dismiss the negative stigma around Hair Relaxers.
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Fabric of Hair Investigates: Is Hair Loss a Result of the Pandemic?🧐

There are two types of hair loss the pandemic seems to be triggering.

In one condition, called telogen effluvium, people shed much more than the typical 50-to-100 hairs per day, usually beginning several months after a stressful experience.

In healthy hair cycles, most hairs are in a growing phase, with a small percentage in a short resting phase and only about 10 percent of hairs in a shedding or telogen phase. But with telogen effluvium, “people are shedding more, growing less, and up to 50 percent of hair might skip ahead to the shedding phase, with only about 40 percent in the growth phase.

The other hair loss condition that is increasing now is alopecia areata, in which the immune system attacks hair follicles, usually starting with a patch of hair on the scalp or beard.

This condition is known to be associated with or intensified by psychological stress.

The pandemic was a near perfect mass hair-loss event, and anyone with the most basic understanding of why peolpe experience hair fall could have spotted it from a mile away.

Throughout this pandemic, millions more have suffered devastating emotional stress even if they’ve never gotten sick: watching a loved one die, losing a job, going to work in life-threatening conditions, bearing the brunt of violent political unrest.

Feelings can have concrete, involuntary physical manifestations, and these traumas are exactly the kinds that leave people staring in horror at the handfuls of hair they gather while running a brush through their hair.

Overall, hair loss is a truly fascinating topic whose causes seem to range from pandemics to hair cells escaping their role in hair growth. As the nation’s scalps recover from the events of the past two years, the next step in hair loss research will be to confirm the mechanisms of hair loss, and deter its fall.🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

Fabric of Hair Educates: Black Hair Industry, and it’s Unlimited Power🥸

With so many people today, their relationship with hair is tied into their very identity, and has grown with the weight of a community that gives it so much value and love.

Delivering a clear message that afro textured hair is worth care, thought and quality products.
How important in continuing to put to right a peoples attitudes toward their amazing texture. Contributing to the fact that black haircare experts are infiltrating the industry to spread their knowledge and empowering achievements in the hair industry, its motivating and nothing short of inspirational.

Exposed and out-performed by afro hair entrepreneurs, big brands are finally listening and seeking advice.

Existing in largely white spaces, the weight on your shoulders feeling like it’s all on you to get the issues heard or correct misinformation.

Progress has been made in black-owned hair care, and it re-invests into the community.

Maybe it seems foolish to be giving that knowledge and potentially business to the brands that neglected it in the past. But if brands are going about this the right way, experts, consumers and employees are ready to share and support.

Offering a wealth of resources, and comprehension, makes it mutually beneficial. Being properly catered for isn’t just about great hair, it’s about worth and belonging.

Ultimately, spreading knowledge and making sure everyone has access to products that work for them is the goal.
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Fabric of Hair Investigates: Is there a Lack of Training on Natural Hair Textures in Cosmetology.🧐

The Hairstyling Industry Has a Racism Problem, and It Starts With Beauty School.

As summations unfold on race around the world, people of color have attested that in the beauty industry there are bias and systematic discrimination in mostly white salons.

This is due to apathy of formal education on tightly curled, coiled or zig-zag hair types.

The lack of experience, or attentiveness to this hair type , is particularly critical when it comes to hair textures worn naturally.

A growing community among African American women and men who want to celebrate both Black culture, and personal identity.

Many stylist in the hair education system that are non-Black. Will state over and over ”They didn't learn Black hair”.

They've been educated that Black hair is difficult.

In modern cosmetology schools they include educators with experience on a range of textured hair, but they're often encumbered by other priorities.

While some textbooks do include a portfolio on all hair types, often students report that highly textured hair is often barely mentioned during educational training. Mannequins of color with textured hair are not accustomed and rarely available.

Unfortunately it is attainable to be awarded a cosmetology license, a process practiced by many US states, without ever touching a Textured hair type.

Cosmetology programs typically only teach styles and looks for people of European descent.

This tactic has served and upheld segregation against African Americans. If the salon stylists do not know how to do Black hair, then the business will not have to serve Black people.

This is bigger than texture hair types. It’s about the larger message that’s communicated when the beauty industry pretends like a whole demographic of people with a particular hair type, has no existence in this space.

Then this problem trickles down into the community, basically teaching Black people with natural textured hair that they are not beautiful.

This is a huge contribution to Black people growing up and suffering from severe self-esteem issues.

So we need our beauty schools to have inclusion and accountability. This is not a Black or White issue.

It’s about everyone being included.
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