What are the consequences after hair extensions and how to deal with them?

A woman wants to be beautiful - this is her feminine nature. Long hair is considered the standard of female beauty by almost all 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 temperatures and atmospheric precipitation, hormonal imbalance and a number of other reasons do not contribute to the growth of beautiful hair.

Before building curls, you need to objectively assess the condition of your hair. Extension is performed in different ways, but regardless of the technique, it has one important consequence - the strands become a source of excess weight that the hair follicles have to withstand. 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 from the severity. In addition, the hair follicles, under the weight of additional curls, do not receive enough nutrition and oxygen supply. Agree, such a test is not suitable for thin or weakened hair, and there is little benefit to healthy people.

Today there are many ways to build curls, and all of them can be divided into the so-called "cold" methods and "hot".

• Build up with ribbons - for this cold type of procedure, a special tape with strands of hair is used, on which a sticky adhesive composition 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 easily attached and it can also be easily removed by acting on the sticky layer with special means that destroy the adhesive composition.
• Extension with capsules - this procedure can be performed both cold and hot. The cold technique is that the artificial strands are fixed to your hair using special metal clips in the form of a small capsule. In the hot method, the strand is attached with heated glue - it is also used in the form of a capsule in a small amount.

• Tress extension Is a cold method of anchoring artificial or natural hair strands. Tresses are strips in the form of a thin cord, into which the hairs are woven. The method of fastening the tresses is very original - a pigtail is braided on the back of your head in a horizontal direction, to which the tresses are sewn with special strong threads.

When assessing the harm to your own hair, you need to understand that any method - cold or hot - does not matter, is damaging. It is almost impossible to choose the most harmful extension method for one reason - they are all harmful, without exception. The hair is subjected not only to physical stress from the weight of additional strands, but also chemical stress from the use of fixing or removing adhesives, as well as thermal stress at the time of their fixation.

A month later, the whole 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 reinforced, or all the strands must be detached and rearranged a little higher. Additional strands tend to get tangled in tangles - artificial materials are especially susceptible to this. To untangle such curls, it will take a lot of effort and time, while your hair is severely damaged.

Not wanting to spend a long time, money and effort to grow their own luxurious hair, some ladies resort to their extensions, however, it is impossible to constantly, from year to year, wear artificial strands on their hair. No matter how universal the fixing techniques are, a time comes when there is a desire or need to part with artificial curls. Long-term 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 attachments of donor hair on your head. It doesn't matter what material and how this attachment is made - whether it be adhesive tapes, tresses or capsules made of metal or ceramic, during a night's rest you will certainly feel the unpleasant and sometimes painful effects of foreign objects on the scalp.

During sleep, your hair is prone to tangling, so you will have to braid it in a braid before going to bed - this may not always be convenient for you, and the hair itself does not rest. Difficulties await you during combing - you will no longer be able to quickly go through your hair with a comb to tidy it up.The procedure will require much more time and patience, so as not to get caught on the anchorage points. But that's not all. The process of shampooing will also become a rather difficult task - in order to rinse well and not tangle your hair into one big mats, it will take a certain amount of skill, as well as a margin 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 bald patches have formed in places, the strands have deteriorated, become thin, light, when combing, the hair "climbs", falling out in large quantities. This change happened because the strands of yours that held the extra hair were stretched out due to the weight of the capsule materials or glue and the weight of the hair itself, because the longer the donor strand, the heavier it is. In the process of wearing, due to constant load, the hair shaft is damaged, becomes unstable, and the follicles themselves begin to injure and decrease in size due to lack of nutrition.

Often women, after wearing donor strands for a long time, find that their head has become quite bald. A bald spot appears in those areas where there is an excessively strong tension of one's own hair under the weight of the false hair. Often, an allergic reaction to resins, glue and even the metal from which the capsules are made becomes the reason for the loss of their curls. There is only one way to prevent such consequences - to abandon the idea of ​​hair extensions or use disposable false strands that are used for some special occasions and are used during the day, after which they are detached without damage to the health of the scalp and hair.

Places of attachment 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 be subjected to mechanical friction of foreign bodies (capsules, glue, tapes and other components), which will inevitably lead to the appearance of microtraumas of the epidermis, which will be accompanied by pustular eruptions, quite strongly manifested by itching and dandruff. Dandruff is a constant companion of hair extensions - after washing your head, 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, manifesting itself as peeling of the epidermis in the form of dandruff flakes of varying intensity.

After fixing the donor strands, your hairstyle will need some care. Often, experts recommend using liquid keratin to improve the appearance of hair. This tool has long been adopted by modern women of fashion 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 the remnants of keratin from the hair before drying and straightening it.

With hair extensions, this is quite problematic, and remaining in large quantities on the hair, keratin can get on the scalp, causing irritation, and sometimes the result of such irritation can be plaques, very similar to psoriasis.A way out of the situation is to replace liquid keratin with hair masks containing keratin in a more gentle amount.

It is best to stand upright during the shampooing process. - only in this position, the curls under their own weight and the weight of the water will not increase the load of the strands on their own hair follicles. Water and steam when washing hair will tend to tangle in strands, especially those made from synthetic fibers. Unraveling the tangles can be very difficult. Therefore, you need to wipe your hair with blotting movements, trying not to tangle them even more, then you need to comb them with a comb with frequent large teeth and only then dry them.

Alopecia is a common problem with false hair. You are unlikely to be able to cope with this condition, and only a trichologist can help you. You will be advised to part with the false curls, after which the doctor will conduct an examination and identify all the causes of baldness. To treat it is not only long and difficult, 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 towards natural beauty and health.

The beauty industry is gaining momentum from year to year and offers new products for the consumer to help solve almost all problems. Nowadays little is 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 unequivocal opinions on this matter. Doctors and trichologists sound the alarm that in the pursuit of ghostly beauty, people are losing their health, and stylists and hairdressers assure in every way that nothing terrible will happen. However, everything in this world is relative.

Doctors-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 over the years, and sometimes with varying success. Experts are trying to convey to the masses the idea of ​​a healthy attitude to their own beauty. In pursuit of a short-term outer gloss, people lose what nature has awarded them, and then they try to correct their own mistakes.

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