Archive for July, 2009

White Hair

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

White hair has many symbolic meanings in literature and religion.  White hair can mean wisdom and knowledge comes from being old enough to have white hair.  It may also mean being innocent and pure in old age.  Our older men have white beards that symbolize being a magician, shaman, or wise man or prophet.  These white locks can be portrayed as beams of light and a halo around the men.  White hair can also mean the onset of maturity and growth of the person that has white hair.  White hair used to have very good connotations for the male member of the human race.

Recently, white hair has been a symbol of old age and being put out in the field.  It has had negative connotations of aging and becoming weak and decrepit. In our culture, we extol youth, vitality, and beautiful hair, but the old are not vital anymore and white hair symbolizes that demise.   White hair also symbolizes worries that a mother has for their children that comes from the quote:”You will give me white hair, because you make me worry!” White hair also symbolizes ghosts too. Boo! Maybe when our society has matured a little bit, white hair and age will become elevated to it’s past distinquishness and wisdom.

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Hair loss and age

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

When I was young and all so wild, my hair used to grow in long and luxurious strands.It was very thick and usually had a lot of oil in it as well as dandruff.  I lived in Ohio for ten years while my hair grew very well and I was very young.  The hair had a certain smell that was repugnant to some of my close friends, but shampoo helped it a little.  My hair changed with time especially in patterns of growth.I used to have a swirl on the top that was very small.  When I moved to Ohio and then to Arizona, my hair is getting thinner and balding in spots. My hair is shorter in the front and thicker in the back.  I was wondering if this was due to the dryness of the weather in Arizona.  My hair is less oily and it is drier, but less dandruff and less smell.  I am about 49 years old and I was curious if this is due to age or climate. My father used to have very nice hair and my mother did too when they were middle age. So I don’t believe it is genetics.

So my issues are why is my hair getting thinner and less smelly?

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Better Looking Wigs

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Now if you have lost your hair, let me recommend something.  While you definitely don’t want to go along wearing bald, drop the wig or toupee.  If you have an amount of money, you can afford what they call “real hair” wigs, which essentially come from hair shops and so on woven into wigs for you that look more natural.  They generally do this with locks of love, and they do this only for children who happen to be cancer patients until they can grow their own real hair back.  Most likely, you are not going to get this, and no matter how descent you think a fake wig looks, trust me, it never looks good. 

My aunt for one spent quite a bit of money getting her last wig, thinking that if she spent more, even though it wasn’t real hair, it would still look better.  No, it looks worse actually.  And then there was a teacher I had in 4th grade.  I don’t know if it would be worse for him to do that teaching elementary or if it were junior high or high school.  But we had plots to see who would be brave enough to grab his toupee.  Even kids know this difference and see the way it looks.  So the best suggestion, either wear your baldness as it is, wear hats or otherwise which don’t look quite as conspicuous, or get a real hair wig.

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Losing Hair By Dying It

Monday, July 6th, 2009

It was more of a scare tactic than anything, because at the time I was dying my hair about every month, sometimes twice because the hair-dye for whatever reason didn’t get it all the first time.  I was going through different colors, sometimes sticking to the same color for a few months at a time, and I was really damaging my hair.  My dad first went on the crusade of you’re not allowed to dye your hair.  That doesn’t work with a 12 year old let alone a 14 years old that I was.  So he gave up on that one after a few tries and moved onto the scare tactic, which was actually quite effective. 

One day he brought up a fact actually, but still.  His best friend at the time had a kid of his own who was doing the same thing I was doing.  Except in her case, apparently my hair was more resilient, because after just a few months of doing this, her hair had actually started to fall out in clumps, at which time she of course stopped.  My hair was fried.  But at some point, it would’ve had the same problem.  So this I bring up in the interest of things.  Depending on the fragility of your hair in general, just remember not to dye it too often.  Definitely don’t go twice in one month, wait a month or two in between, etc.

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Are Over The Counter Hair Loss Treatments Better?

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

While many men and women across the world will experience hair loss during their lifetime, most will not be able to fix it.  There are some that will take prescriptions like Propecia, and in some cases they will be able to restore hair growth.  But these prescriptions are only for men.  In addition, they can cause multiple problems like erectile dysfunction and decreased sex drive.  They cause various other side effects, and of course they don’t always work.

On the other hand, some, especially women, have turned to over the counter remedies that provide different kinds of results.  They don’t always work either.  But they often target varying causes of hair loss instead of just the one found with many prescriptions.  In addition, they work without side effects, and they often see success even when prescriptions fail because they have a multi directional approach in most cases.  With these formulas, you can truly achieve the results you are looking for.  The biggest pull for many however is the pull that they experience when choosing between natural remedies for acne and Accutane.  They generally come without side effects while sometimes showing the same kind of results in the end.  In short, prescriptions are a last resort.

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