Neglected hair!

   Hair, like beautiful wood, can be shaped, moulded, colored and, if properly looked after, made to shine with 'health'. Yet all too often this 'crowning glory' of ours is neglected. And then it can look shoddy, dull and lifeless. It becomes a constant disappointment, all the worse because we know that, however expensive and beautiful our clothes, if our hair looks a mess we won't be seen as well-groomed, poised and fashionable.
   Hair so often fails to do for us exactly what we expected. Its behaviour raises endless questions, sometimes almost despairing:

• Why did my hair suddenly collapse just before that vital interview? What could I have done to avoid that happening?
• Why did it look fine when I walked out of the salon yesterday, and terrible this morning?
• Why, when it had so much volume and 'body' when I was on that Mediterranean holiday, has all that gone now I'm at home in November?

•  Why were the results of that home color so disappointing?
• Why does a woman's hair so often 'fall out' after she has had a baby?
• Why do so many men (and some women) go bald?
• Why does so-and-so's lovely red hair never perm very well?
• Why does my hair go out of condition so easily? What can I do to restore it?

This book sets out to answer questions like these
- the questions hair stylists are asked every working day. Understanding hair from the scientific standpoint helps them to predict what will happen to different types of hair under different conditions. It also allows them to understand what can be done with a particular person's hair and what cannot: every experienced stylist and technician knows how important it is not to try to do the impossible with hair that is too thin, too short, the wrong color or just 'difficult'.
    In this book we explore the nature of hair, its care and maintenance, and the cosmetic and medical problems which can and (often do) affect it. Above all, we point to the ways in which the individual, the hair care industry and the hair stylist can work together to create 'healthy hair'.


      
    
    A tinting and cutting nightmare!