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 It
is rather difficult to meet a grey-haired woman in the street recently. Even younger
girls use dyes and coloring shampoos when they are not actually in need of changing
the color of hair. On the other hand, all of us have a couple of grey hairs. Sometimes
we do not pay attention to grey in hair but sometimes we are too irritated with them that
we angrily pull them out. So,
what if the liquidation of grey hair is not the right solution? Why do we have grey hair and how to cope with it? Yet,
perhaps silver locks are not so bad?
The
color of our hair depends on the pigment called melanin. It is produced in the
hair bulbs, in melanocytes. In the neighborhood in keratinocytes the protein is
formed so much required to build hair. At the time when the protein and pigment
are joined together, out hair gets the appropriate color. Respective of the kind
of melanin humans have various color of their hair. Eumelanin provides dark-brown
color to hair, feomelanin gives the color close to henna, ossimelanin gives the
light color and the group of triochromes provides red color. Depending on the
match of these pigments we have our individual and unique color of our hair.
When melanocytes cease functioning actively, our hair loses the color since
extraction of melanin is reduced.
Reasons
Those
who decide to struggle with grey hair will find it useful to know why and how it occurs.
There
are many reasons, while you might know of the ageing cause only.
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Alcohol abuse
and extra coffee consumption
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Lack
of fish and vegetable in the diet
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Over-fatigue
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Long
stay in the sun
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Lack of vitamins and minerals in the diet
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Disorders
of peripheral and central nervous systems
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Stress
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Heredity
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Particular
viral diseases
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Hormonal
disorders
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Kidney
diseases
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Skin
diseases (sacred fire, herpes, alopecia areata)
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Autoimmune
disease
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Some
particular medications like chloroquine, resochin, hydroquinone, phenylthiourea,
and many others.
Now
can you imagine how dangerous low-calorie diets are that do not give you
necessary vitamins? Or abuse of coffee?
How to prevent poliosis?
Interesting
fact: Strong vegetarianism when younger cause problems with hair. When in the mature
ages, exclusion of animal proteins from food ration does not affect hair color.
It
is not possible to avoid silver locks, as well as skin ageing. Since particular
preventive measures are able to move aside such an unpleasant event.
First,
consider food: plums, white cabbage, onion, blackberry, strawberry, raspberry,
apricot, cherry and kalanchoe as the juice and extract.
Second,
intake of vitamins А, С, Е,
riboflavin and folic acid.
Third,
extracts to rub into the scalp. For example, 1 to 2 tablespoon of sag of parsley
roots, parsnip and celery - once a day.
Fourth, never pull grey hair out. Some
people are ready to do it. Once you do it, make sure you will have twice as
much, since the root at the base of the follicle produces the serum that
affects the next hair. Want to get rid of that ugly hair? Just cut it
accurately.
What
do you need to help yourself?
Dye
for hair, certainly. When your thatch has more than two or three grey hairs,
then the only thing to struggle with grey hair is dying. Though, it causes some
troubles. First, you need to choose lighter shades to match your skin type.
Then the dye is used in three steps with the aim to even the shade of dyed
hair, and soft dyers are best to use. With insignificant number of grey hair coloring
shampoos may be helpful. Make sure that the dye contains natural coloring
compounds, that may nourish the hair. Apply balms since grey hair is a trouble to
style.
When
and why can you be proud of grey hair?
Never
believe that Hollywood celebrities never afford themselves to have grey hair. Helen
Mirren, Vanessa Redgrave and Jamie Lee Curtis are women who are proud of their ageing
status and who have gone against the social opinion. In one of the interviews for
women's magazine «MARIE CLAIRE» Jamie Lee Curtis told that her first silver
hair appeared when she was 43. It is obvious that a public person finds it quite
difficult to demonstrate such unpleasant things. She told «I had some more courage
than ever. Since I had to have my hair cut very short for the beginning. It was impossible to wear long hair, two centimeters
of grey hair is actually ugly», said Jamie. Hair care is based on the shampoo
with balsamic vinegar that makes your hair shine.
Do
you feel yourself comfortable wearing grey hair? Then, you do not need to color
them. It is significant to be self-confident, not to feel uneasiness, psychological
discomfort and complexes. But if grey hair does not arouse positive emotions, then
you'd better apply toning shampoos and dyes.
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