Porous hair - this is a disaster number one. Water gets into the hair pores (vacant seats formed reveal the scales), it evaporates quickly and makes hair more pliable different kinds of damage, dry and split.
To make it easier to present the phenomenon of hair porosity, remember the following: Revealed flakes - porous hair, scales closed (stacked on top of each other) - the hair with low porosity (healthy, strong and beautiful).
There are three levels of hair porosity:
- tall: As I said above, the hair with high porosity due to open scales quickly absorb the water (and a lot) which evaporates in the pores and makes the hair more susceptible to damage, very dry and leads to a cross-section of the tip and fragility;
- Medium (normal): Such porosity have straight hair, for which wrong tended (e.g., used without thermal utjuzhkom) such hair slightly twisted after being washed and dried the head;
- low: The hair is completely protected from the negative effects of moisture, because the scales of hair tightly adjacent to each other and do not allow water molecules to get inside. Such hair is the best resistance to staining and installation.
Determine the level of porosity of hair in several ways, even at home.
The method №1. Glass of water
Porous hair - like a sponge, they absorb water and because of this, become heavier. This fact helps to carry out a simple test: simply collect the hair with a comb and add a glass of water.
Hair with high porosity for two minutes will settle to the bottom, for longer than two minutes are deposited on the bottom of the glass hair average level of porosity. And if your hair is kept for a long time on the water surface - I sincerely congratulate you with the presence of healthy hair, the scales of which are tightly closed.
Method №2. haptic
It's simpler, faster than a glass of water, but there are errors in the results (you can not catch these tactile sensations).
Squeeze the hair with two fingers and swipe it from the bulb to the tip. Feel the bumps in it (so much so that the catch squeaks) - high porosity, delicate irregularities (In some areas) - the average porosity, if it does not feel over rough - low porosity.
The most accurate results, of course, you will be given laboratory methods. For example, a trichologist under a microscope to determine exactly Revealed Do you have a hair scales and how much.
Poor whether to have hair with high porosity?
Looks, of course, beautiful! Natural curls, even curlers are not needed. And many are very wavy hair. But here's what else is interesting: straight hair, too, can have a high porosity. "Curl" so that it is not always porous hair.
Such hair is not very fond of make-up, which included are alcohols, laundries and any components with a pH greater than 7. They are very fond of proteins in masks and balms.
Hair like a porous sponge. And in order to prevent the entry of external factors that destroy the structure of hair, they need to be something useful to envelop. In this case - is a cosmetic oil or lipid-based.
these oils are suitable for highly porous hair: sunflower, argan, almond and olive oil, but I advise you still look at the avocado oil.
To reduce the porosity often advised to dye your hair with henna, but not cheap, just saying.
And it is necessary to rinse with cold running water, cold water from the flakes start to adhere to each other.
So the hair with high porosity - is, in principle, not bad, and it looks nice, but they care specific to it should be treated seriously. No hot water rinsing, hot air dryer, irons, alcohols in cosmetics, mineral oils, and no coconut oil, heavily clogged and it is very difficult to wash it afterwards.
Few words about the hair with low porosity. Though they look healthy, obedient to the installation, but do not like busting into some components. For example, excess styling balm and can lead to the fact that the hair will simply lose its elasticity. Also out of place will be a surplus in proteins and amino acids.
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