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Cosmetic and medical causes of hair weathering
Author(s) -
Dawber Rodney
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of cosmetic dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.626
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1473-2165
pISSN - 1473-2130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1473-2165.2002.00049.x
Subject(s) - scalp , variety (cybernetics) , weathering , aesthetics , computer science , dermatology , art , medicine , geology , artificial intelligence , paleontology
Summary To experts in any aesthetic field, scalp hair has ‘life’. But in any scientific sense it is a dead structure made up of highly organized and orientated keratinized fibres and fibrils; and these can be modified by cosmetic procedures to give a seemingly infinite variety of beautiful and exciting styles. As the hair grows away from the scalp it degenerates or ‘weathers’ to some degree and this can be exaggerated by physical and chemical procedures such as overzealous brushing, bleaching, permanent waving and tricotillomania.