Showing posts with label hair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hair. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

5 THINGS TO DO, IF YOU ARE GETTING BALD

If you belong to the stronger sex, and still in your Early Adulthood, probably balding is in your worry list. Presumably, if you are through with your share of blaming it on your inherited Androgen; then wasting away your money in the camouflage tricks is the next viable option. But if you have still not reached your relinquishment, and do not mind trying the reverse-engineering route, then the pointers below are of some help to arrest the few strands left.



1. Boost your intake of Iron rich foods, with foods such as Green leafy vegetables, Soya bean, watermelon, raisins and pomegranate. Iron is an important element in the formation of hair.

2. Hair is a form of protein called Keratin. Hence, a Protein rich diet can be a savior. Best options are whole pulses, egg whites and cheese.

3. Biotin is a popular vitamin from the B-Complex series. It has a vital role in binding hair shafts together. Foods rich in this vitamin like dairy products, cauliflower and salmon also do miracles.

4. Zinc is also required for the synthesis of the hair strands. The foods rich in its biological form are legumes, nuts, pumpkin seeds, and oysters.

5. Unlike the above factors, ‘Stress’ and ‘Smoking’ are inversely related to the hair re-growth, but directly with the sudden loss. So, try your best to keep them at bay.

Disclaimer:

Hair responds to any stimulus after eight weeks. So if you have suffered illness or stress two months back, the resulting hair fall would be manifesting now. Similarly, if you start treatment for hair loss today, it would take at least eight weeks for the results to show. So, be patient and persistent.

If in any case it is difficult for you to include the vitamins and minerals mentioned here through your daily food intake, then ingesting multivitamins as a supplement to your diet can be an easy solution. Though it is convenient to pop a pill, but a prior advise from your family doctor would be advisable. You never know if you could end up developing an allergy or some malfunction due to them. But if things seems fine, then I recommend few of these.

                                                                              
                    B-complex with mineral Zinc                                     B-complex from a vegan source

Please note that one can use any of these to supplement the requirements of B-complex along with the daily diet. One includes Zinc too, so you would not require to have that mineral separately from another pill. The other one though does not include the mineral but the entire B-complex is derived from plants, therefore is completely sacred for vegans. They can then fulfill their Zinc requirements either from foods mentioned in the post or from a pill containing Zinc alone. 

Hope this helps, ENJOY !!


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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Mane Mania

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The struggle to keep my hair on top of my head has been a struggle for me since years. Poor strands of loose keratin that have been subjected to a lot of shearing and thermal abuses because of the love associations I have been subjected to.

As long as I distinctively remember, I tried as much to save and grow them, much in line with the compound interest formula principle. I could save on them till my graduation college luckily. But luck did not last till my post-graduation days of my Business Management. My boy friend then got them chopped off to my waist, a stark difference from hips...

But the new look and new boy friend, I was in love with both of them. And indeed the hairdo made me look pretty. It was a pretty even front layer, with bangs ascending from my curve of the face till my waist.

Later on few girls from my batch went for the same cut. That confirmed that I looked too good in them.

Later on I got married, and my husband turned out to be more experimental in comparison to my shearing boy friend in college.

My husband got me go through the rigorous task of getting my hair tightly curled. The potion that is used to perm was stinking and it took whole 4 hours for them to set. Thankfully, the effect was wonderful, again.

But the effect started wearing down soon. So, I had no other choice but to get them permed again. But this time, it was my own choice to go through the grind.

The tighter curls lasted for 6 months, then went in the another round of solid damage.

Sadly, this time it was permanent. My hair lost their lustre, strength and colour.
Thankfully, Deepti from Nalini, of Nalini and Yasmin came to my rescue. She cropped them super short. So, now I visit her once in a year to get my mane clipped in style. I really owe a lot to her.

And now it is Pantene, thank god for the repeated and repeated telecast of the advertisement by Shilpa Shetty claiming that she is in whole awe of the shampoo.
Well she must have been hugely to claim that, but I can shout it out any day that Pantene is THE shampoo. My hair fall has reduced to 2% of what it used to be. The bathroom floor, my clothes and all my house used to be full of my weak strands.

Thanks Pantene and thanks Deepti, I am a much happy person now.