Ends-Dead or Alive???

[e$h]

How do you know if your ends are dead or alive (so to speak)?

 

[Armyqt]

Some will say all hair is dead. I'm still on the fence with this though. As some have reported a change in their entire strands taking vitamins. Where are the science majors???

 

[Softresses]

In Anatomy and Physiology classes we learned that the hair is indeed dead once it leaves the hair follicle. The fingernail tips are too once they grow past the nail bed. This is why neither of them are painful when they are cut or clipped. The oils from your scalp travel down the hair shaft and nourish it.

The vitamins can work on the growing hair in the follicle, and may even have an effect on the sebum we produce that coats the hair, but I don't know how a vitamin could actually nourish the non-living portion of the hair otherwise.

Softresses

 

[preciousjewel76]

Some will say all hair is dead. I'm still on the fence with this though. As some have reported a change in their entire strands taking vitamins. Where are the science majors???

Here! (microbiology, not cosmetology though, LOL)

Yup, your hair strands are "dead", so to speak. Only the roots are "living and breathing". But healthy hair starts from the roots....

 

[cutiebe2]

I guess you mean when do you know it's time to trim?
I remember back in the old days before LHCF I would straighten my hair all the time. The ends never seemed to get straigth though. They would be fuzzy and hard to smooth down. This is when you need to trim. When the ends not only are split, but dry, dull, and unruly, not very soft, etc.

 

[e$h]

I guess you mean when do you know it's time to trim?
I remember back in the old days before LHCF I would straighten my hair all the time. The ends never seemed to get straigth though. They would be fuzzy and hard to smooth down. This is when you need to trim. When the ends not only are split, but dry, dull, and unruly, not very soft, etc.

Exaaaaactly!!!! My ends aren't split. They just don't look all that great. I don't wanna trim because I wanted to gain a lil length first.

 

[e$h]

In Anatomy and Physiology classes we learned that the hair is indeed dead once it leaves the hair follicle. The fingernail tips are too once they grow past the nail bed. This is why neither of them are painful when they are cut or clipped. The oils from your scalp travel down the hair shaft and nourish it.

The vitamins can work on the growing hair in the follicle, and may even have an effect on the sebum we produce that coats the hair, but I don't know how a vitamin could actually nourish the non-living portion of the hair otherwise.

Softresses

Ok-k-k! Thanks for the anatomy and physiology lesson.

 

[hot_pepper96]

Technically all ends are dead. It's the (where the follicle is ) that's actually alive so to speak. I got this from Kathy House.

Someone help out if I'm wrong....

 

[cutiebe2]

Exaaaaactly!!!! My ends aren't split. They just don't look all that great. I don't wanna trim because I wanted to gain a lil length first.

As long as you keep the split ends contained it should be fine. You don't want the hair to continue to split and then have to cut more than you would have if you had just cut when the problem started.
Make sure to keep the ends extra moisturized and since you are relaxed remember protein too

 

[Softresses]

Ok-k-k! Thanks for the anatomy and physiology lesson.

Girl, I thought you wanted to know if they were graveyard dead

Softresses

 

[e$h]

Girl, I thought you wanted to know if they were graveyard dead

Softresses

You off the chain!

 

[Netta1]

yep hair is dead..

 

[Allandra]

In Anatomy and Physiology classes we learned that the hair is indeed dead once it leaves the hair follicle. The fingernail tips are too once they grow past the nail bed. This is why neither of them are painful when they are cut or clipped. The oils from your scalp travel down the hair shaft and nourish it.

The vitamins can work on the growing hair in the follicle, and may even have an effect on the sebum we produce that coats the hair, but I don't know how a vitamin could actually nourish the non-living portion of the hair otherwise.

Softresses

Great info. Thanks hun.

 

[MzOptimistic]

In Anatomy and Physiology classes we learned that the hair is indeed dead once it leaves the hair follicle. The fingernail tips are too once they grow past the nail bed. This is why neither of them are painful when they are cut or clipped. The oils from your scalp travel down the hair shaft and nourish it.

The vitamins can work on the growing hair in the follicle, and may even have an effect on the sebum we produce that coats the hair, but I don't know how a vitamin could actually nourish the non-living portion of the hair otherwise.

Softresses

I definitely agree with Softresses..I think that the ng is alive but everything is dead...and that's why you have to pay more attention to your ends because your hair going to grow..it's just the matter of keeping the length and that's why protective styles are a great choice because it is keeping your ends protected and moisturized.

 

[brooklyngal73]

Exactamundo!

In Anatomy and Physiology classes we learned that the hair is indeed dead once it leaves the hair follicle. The fingernail tips are too once they grow past the nail bed. This is why neither of them are painful when they are cut or clipped. The oils from your scalp travel down the hair shaft and nourish it.

The vitamins can work on the growing hair in the follicle, and may even have an effect on the sebum we produce that coats the hair, but I don't know how a vitamin could actually nourish the non-living portion of the hair otherwise.

Softresses