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Hairfacts: Hair removal methods com mercial-free hair removal facts for consumers Keep this site reader supported! Home Methods D I R E C T O R Y Home Methods Search "Permanent" * Electrolysis * Home electro * Laser * Flashlamp/IPL * Combinations * * see note Hair inhibitors Rx oral meds Vaniqa Temporary Shaving Depilatories Friction Tweezing Waxing Sugaring Threading Rotary epilators Doubtful Electric tweezer Transdermal Transcutaneous Photoepilators Microwaves Dietary products Herbal inhibitors Other topics How to choose Tips Clinical data Manufacturers Regulation Info sources Scams Ripped off? FAQ Glossary Site info Feedback Methods of hair removal Hair removal might be considered a "cosmetic" issue, but managing or removing unwanted hair can go beyond being a simple "cosmetic" problem. Many cultures have an aesthetic "ideal" amount of hair for males and females. For some of us, unwanted hair that exceeds this arbitrary standard can cause real or perceived problems with social acceptance. The information I've compiled would fill a book, so if you're researching a specific method, you can go right to that topic. For a more thorough review, I recommend reading the background information. Background Information Definitions Temporary Methods Hair removal can be achieved through depilation (removing part of the hair above the skin's surface) or epilation (removing the entire hair). For many consumers, temporary methods at regular intervals are acceptable. Right now my focus is on devices claiming permanence, but I'll be discussing temporary methods in the future. Depilation lasting several hours to several days can be achieved by: Shaving or trimming (manually or with electric shavers) Depilatories (creams or "shaving powders" which chemically dissolve hair) Friction (rough surfaces used to buff away hair) Epilation lasting several days to several weeks can be achieved by: Tweezing Waxing (a hot or cold layer is applied and then removed with porous strips) Sugaring (similar to waxing, but with a sticky paste) Threading (also called fatlah or khite, in which a twisted thread catches hairs as it's rolled across the skin) Rotary epilators (devices which rapidly grasp hairs and pull them out by the root) "Permanent" Methods If you're seeking permanent hair removal, you have several imperfect options. A number of methods have been developed that use chemicals, energy of varying types, or a combination to target the areas that regulate hair growth. Permanently destroying these areas while sparing surrounding tissue is a difficult challenge. I recommend relying on a body of published, peer-reviewed scientific evidence to ensure the effectiveness of a method. Permanent hair removal for most Electrolysis Permanent hair reduction for some Laser Flashlamp Lasting hair inhibition for many (requires continuous use) Prescription oral medications Prescription topical preparation (Vaniqa) Restricted methods X-ray (banned in the United States) Photodynamic therapy (experimental) Doubtful methods Electric tweezers "Transdermal electrolysis" "Transcutaneous hair removal" Photoepilators Microwaves Foods and Dietary supplements Nonprescription topical preparations (aka "hair inhibitors," "hair retardants," or "hair growth inhibitors") How to choose Choosing a method Choosing a practitioner: Laser/light Electrologist Hair removal information : recommended and non-recommended Was this helpful? This free site is reader-supported. Donate or subscribe today! Still have questions? Ask them at my free HairTell hair removal forum! 1996-2005 Andrea James. All rights reserved. Legal Info / Terms of Use Revised 30 August, 2005 .

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Short hair styles pictures. The Short section from our 1000s of hairstyles. Welcome to the Short section. Please navigate by clicking on the pictures below or the buttons above. These Styles are cut to the ears and are divided into the following sections:- Before you browse our gallery of hair styles pictures we recommend that you read through th e advice on choosing a hairstyle that will compliment your face shape. Firstly you need to determine what shape your face actually is. It may not be one exact type, in fact it will more than likely be a mixture of two or maybe even more but it should resemble one more the others In front of a mirror, pull your hair off your face by wetting it and combing it back or tying it at the back. Take a pace away from the mirror or, use a photograph of yourself facing straight into the camera with your hair off your face as above. Draw an outline of your face with lipstick on the mirror, on transparent paper or on the photo itself. Now look at your outline and compare it to the options Short Hairstyles Pictures Gallery. At 1001 hair styles we have a browseable hairstyles gallery of many photos from to extra short to extra long hairstyles browse through and/or and try any style you find on our site on a Photograph of yourself by visiting our sister site (a link to this is further down the page). Take the guess work out of choosing new hairstyles with 1001 HAIR STYLES: A gallery of l ong hair pictures, extra long styles pictures, short hair pictures, extra short cuts, medium cut pictures, medium/short section and medium/long sections all have their own place in our gallery for you to browse and also our sister site can, for a small fee fit any of them to a photo of you. Gallery of short Hair Styles Pictures. At 1001 hairstyles there are 1000s of pictures in our gallery that are divided in to 8 sections these are extra long, long, medium to long, medium, medium-short, short and extra short hair styles these sections are further split into 4 subsections:- Curly or wavy, centre parting spelt (center in the us), side parting and no parting which contain 60 hairstyles each making 240 for each of the seven categories mainly women's styles for ladies but now with a men's to make an eighth style category . top30 | hair | privacy | contacts | gallery | x-short | short | m-short | med | m-long | long | x-long | men

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girls hair styles Girls Hair Styles Figure 1.--HBC has no nformation as to the provinance of this photograph. Based on the women's dresses, we would date it to about 1910. The girl's short hair shows that you can not assum that all children with short hair are boys. HBC does not plan on going into great detail on girls' hair cuts. Er have always been hopefull that some one would lauch a sister site on girls historical clothing and styles. Assessing gender in old photographs, however, is such a difficult problem that we have concluded that some basic information about girls' nair styles, especially 19th century girls' styles would be useful. Just as you can not assume that children with long hair are girls, it is also true that you can not assume that children with short hair are girls. What we want to do here is to assess stylistic and chronolgical trends associated with girls' hair styles. We want to assess styles like bangs, curls, parts, and other hair styles. Gender Connotations The children's hair styles are an important issue in assessing many old photographs whih are often unidentified. The gendr of the children is often obvioyus, but a boys in the 19th and early 20th century not uncommonly wore dresses, assessing the hair style become important in assessing gender. One factor is the hair part. Many boys wore bangs or other styles without disernable parts. When parts are discernable, left parts seem the most common. We notice that many girls seem to have center or right parts. This is our initial assessment and it needs to be confirmed. Here there are differences over time and among counties. Here we need to develop more information on these trends. We note numerous photographs of boys with long hair during the lte 19th and early 20th cebtury. Thus hair can be very confusing when assessing gender. One useful guideline is that in school potraits we believe that virtually all of the children with long hair are girls. What we often are confused about is all the girls with short hair. This became even more common after World War I in the 1920s when girls bgan bobbing their hair after World War I (1914-18) Styles Girl's hair styles are commonly more elaborate and more complicated than boys styles. Short Hair One HBC reader reports that in the early 20th century before World War I, short hair for a girl was not considered stylish. We have, however, seen girls with shorter cuts appearing in fashion magazines. We note, for example, a book about French fashions ( Children's Fashion 1860-1912 ) which showed short hair for girls at the end of the 1880s and the beginning of the 1890s. A German reder reports, "This trend is supported by photos I have seen in books. And I have also seen a painting with girls and short hair from about 1900." This was not, however, the ominant trend which was for young women to have long hair. Here we notice that more girls than young women had short hair. HBC notes very large numbers of girls which had short hair, especially in school portrits. We are not entirely sure why. A reader provides some possible reasons for girls having short hair: practical, convenient, and to discourage vanity." Another reader agrees that it had to with lice. She also points out that it may have to do with tangled hair or some other event that made long hair impractical. HBC is not convinced that these were the only reasons, but we do believe that they are part of the reason. We do not yet have sufficent information to assess country trends. One significant factor may have been social class. We believe that working class girls were more likely to have short hair. This may be because their mothers had less time to devote to careing for their hair. Factors suuh as huygene and practicality may have been especially important to working class families. Long Hair Long hair was highly prized and considered to be very important to any young woman in the 19th and early 20th century. We note large numbers of portraits of girls who did have long hair, often with a right or center part. Clearly many girls, however, had short hair. I am not sure if that was a style seen appropriat for girls before theygot older, or if there was some other reason for all the girls with short hair. A British reader tells us, "The only reason that comes to mind is hygiene - perhaps thegirls with short hair had their heads shaved at some time because of head lice / nits? Still an occasional problem at schools nowadays, when I was at junior school inthe late 1950's we had regular inspections by the school nurse looking for nits in our hair." Curls One style that girls have worn, although the popularity has varied over time has been ringlet curls. The popularity of ringlets has varied significantly over time and among countries. We believe that during the time that ringlets became most popular for boys, about 1880-1905, that they were less popular for girls. One major difference between boys' and girls' ringlets is that quite old girls even young women might wear them. Also girls, especially in the early 1900s might wear them with very large hair bows. Bangs Hair bows It was for girls that it was most important to keep up with the latest style for hair bows. The memoirs of many well known women touch upon the hair bows they wore as children. The famous 1920s film star Gloria Swanson, for example, commented on the hair bows she wore. Her mother and grand mother appear to have believed that young Gloria had large ears. Althogh noted at birth, the impact of her large ears was not felt until she was old enough to have her hair styled. Swanson wrote, "While all the other girls my age were wearing teeny tiny hair ribbons, my mother made giant silk bows and poufs for me to hide my ears." It appears to have been less important to follow the latest styles of hair bows when doing a boy's hair. Even so, hair bows for boys have varied in size, color, knot, and position. Some of these changes have varied over time. Others have shown no clear time line change. Following these trends is complicated as they varied sometimes significantly in different countries. The custom of tieing bows in boys' hair, for example, seems to have been most common in France. Chronology Long hair was a standard for beauty and styling for young women during the 19th century. Even so, we note many girls with short hair which at this time we do not fully understand. A major change occurred after World War I when bobbed hair for girls became stylish in the 1920s. Schools Some schools had regulations about both girls and boys hair styles. For some reason the schools seem to have given more attention to boys' hair, but this may be because we know less about girls' hair styles. The hair styles as well as the regulations have varied over time. There are also differences among countries. This is an interesting topic that we have not yet developed in detail. We do have a page on Russia . HGC Navigate the Boys' Historical Clothing Web Site: [Return to the Main hair style page ] [ Introduction ] [ Activities ][ Biographies ][ Chronology ] [ Clothing styles ][ Countries ] [ Bibliographies ][ Contributions ][ Essays ][ FAQs ][ Glossaries ][ Satellites ][ Tools ] [ Boys' Clothing Home ] Created: September 10, 2001 Last updated: 4:36 AM 9/14/2005

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Hair Growth and Hair Loss - British Association of Dermatologists About BAD BAD Constitution What is a Dermatologist Access to Care About the Skin Cosmetics Facts About Skin Function and Importance Looking After Your Skin Occupational Dermatitis Skin Colour Social Importance of Skin Sunbeds The Skin as a Barrier The Hair Hair Growth and Hair Loss Skin Cancer Patient Support Groups History of British Dermatology The Sarkany Interviews Links Patient Information and Leaflets Frequently Asked Questions >> Hair Growth and Hair Loss We are all born with all our hair follicles in place and under normal circumstances do not produce any more. A proportion of these follicles are programmed to grow relatively long, thick, pigmented hair, for example scalp, eyebrow and eyelash hair. These are called primary terminal hairs. Other follicles grow short, fine, non-pigmented or only slightly pigmented hair, primary vellus hair which covers most of the body. This is often not visible to the naked eye. Hair cycle We all lose hairs everyday throughout life - between about 40 and 120 hairs from the scalp alone. This is obviously replaced; for example the average head has 100,000 hairs. Supposing one loses 100 hairs per day, complete baldness would occur in every one of us within 1,000 days without regrowth! We maintain a status quo of hair density by what is called the hair cycle, a method by which nature replaces hair. At any one time approximately 90% of head hair is growing and advancing in length by approximately 1 centimetre per month. Each hair grows for a period lasting from about two to six years; during this time the hair attains its maximum diameter and length. When the growth phase ends, the hair follicle begins a two to six month period of rest and the hair is shed. Only about 10% of hair is in the resting phase at any one time and when it sheds it does so randomly. Eventually the hair follicle enters a new growth period and a new hair shaft appears. Normally, as the scalp goes through these cycles, the follicles and the hairs they produce remain constant in size. However, hair follicles throughout the body have the capacity to change size and produce different types of hair. During and after puberty, governed by hereditary and hormonal influences, for example follicles on some parts of the body increase in size and produce longer and thicker terminal hair instead of the fine vellus hairs previously produced. This is often called secondary sexual hair. Hair loss 95% of the hair loss seen in both men and women is caused by a progressive condition called androgenetic alopecia, or common hereditary hair loss. In men, this is known as male pattern baldness and may progress to the familiar horseshoe-shaped fringe of hair. The varying degrees of male baldness are known as Hamilton patterns. In women, it manifests itself as a diffuse thinning of the hair over the crown (vertex) of the head (Ludwig pattern). It is estimated that androgenetic alopecia affects the majority of men and women to some degree. Hair loss can begin as early as the teens, and by age 35 almost 40% of men an women show some degree of hair loss; in men this is usually obvious but in women it is typically subtle and not noticed without close examination. In androgenetic alopecia, a combination of heredity, hormones and age causes a progressive shrinking, or miniaturisation, of certain scalp follicles. This causes a shortening of the hair's growth cycle. Over time, as the active growth phase becomes shorter, the resting phase becomes longer. Eventually, there is very little growth at all. Because the hair length and thickness are determined by how long the hair is allowed to grow before entering the next resting and shredding phase, the hair loss process in both men and women is thus a gradual conversion of terminal hair follicles to vellus-like hair follicles, secondary vellus hairs. Some hairs only partly miniaturise and are called intermediate hairs. The net result is an increasing number of short, thin hairs that may be barely visible above the scalp surface. Despite the sometimes dramatic change in follicle size with androgenetic alopecia, the follicle is not altered in structure; and the number of follicles does not change, apart from in old age when some follicular loss (deletion) occurs. At the time of writing only two medicines are licensed for use in minimising the progression of androgenetic alopecia and to some degree improving it - oral Finasteride (Propecia, MSD Ltd) and topical Minoxidil (Regaine, Pharmacia and UpJohn Ltd). Neither of these are strictly 'cures' in that any improvement or 'arrest' of hair loss gained from them will be lost within a few months of stopping the treatment. about | join | contact | site map | legal | links members | public resources | specialist groups | healthcare professionals

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