How hair breakage differs from hair loss. Why hair becomes thin. How to make hair thick

Have you ever wondered why your hair seems to be breaking more frequently or why it isn’t as thick as you would like? Recognizing the distinction between hair breakage and hair loss is essential to resolving these issues. Hair breakage occurs when weak hair strands break off, usually as a result of heat, styling, or environmental factors. However, hair loss usually results in the loss of hair at the roots, and this can be brought on by a variety of conditions as well as genetics and hormonal fluctuations.

Inadequate hair care techniques or a deficiency in vital nutrients are two common causes of thinning hair. Thinning hair can sometimes be caused by overuse of heat styling tools, harsh shampoos, or even stress. You can take action to heal your hair and promote stronger, thicker growth by figuring out the underlying reasons.

Changing to a healthier hair care regimen is the first step toward addressing these problems and growing out your hair. Employ mild products, stay away from intense heat, and think about adding nourishing masks and oils. A healthy, vitamin- and mineral-rich diet can also promote the general health of hair, gradually giving it more elasticity and fullness.

Topic	Description
Hair Breakage	Hair breakage happens when individual strands become damaged and snap off. This is often due to excessive heat styling, chemical treatments, or mechanical damage from brushing or harsh hair ties.
Hair Loss	Hair loss refers to the shedding of hair from the scalp or other areas. It can be caused by various factors including genetics, hormonal changes, medical conditions, or stress.
Why Hair Becomes Thin	Hair can become thin due to a lack of essential nutrients, hormonal imbalances, aging, or overuse of hair products. Genetics can also play a significant role in thinning hair.
How to Make Hair Thick	To make hair thick, focus on maintaining a healthy diet rich in vitamins and minerals, use nourishing hair treatments, avoid excessive heat styling, and practice gentle hair care techniques. Regular trims can also help reduce breakage and improve hair thickness.

Forthinning hair management requires an understanding of the distinction between hair breakage and hair loss. Hair loss refers to a decrease in the amount of hair on your scalp, usually brought on by factors like heredity or hormonal fluctuations. Hair breakage is the breaking off of weak hair strands, frequently as a result of damage from harsh products or styling. It’s critical to address both problems in order to prevent thinning hair.Use gentle hair care techniques, add nourishing treatments, and keep a healthy diet to encourage stronger, thicker hair.

What determines hair thickness

Nature endows our scalps with a finite number of hair follicles from birth, and these follicles can only release a finite amount of hair over the course of a lifetime. From the time it is born until it leaves the scalp, hair constantly goes through several stages.

Phases of hair growth

1. Anagen – active hair growth.
2. Catagen – transition from growth to resting phase.
3. Telogen – resting phase. Growth stops. Hair falls out.

Catangue is the shortest phase. The longest hair continues to grow or rest during this time. One follicle may occasionally produce two or three hairs at once.

The amount of hair serves as the first indicator of overall hair density.

The thickness or beauty of the hair also contributes to the overall impression of the braids. The strands appear thicker the thicker the hair. Even though there seems to be a lot of hair, it is thin. Conversely, there is an average amount of hair but good density because the hair strands are thick.

The porous structure of hair naturally creates volume along its length, or it may become loose due to damage. Additionally, the hair appears longer. Such strands will lose their splendor and lose volume if smoothing care is applied to them.

The kind and condition of the hair provides the second guarantee of density.

Types of thinning density

Fragility

The hair loses its connection to the scalp and the blood that provides it with direct nourishment once it exits the follicle. The natural defense mechanism of scalp fat is still in place. Skin fat distributes along the hair shaft to prevent moisture loss. But this fat is removed as soon as we wash our hair. Although we wash our hair again, the skin produces it right away.

As a result, the natural nourishment of the skin does not reach the very tip of the hair. And without its defense against harmful environmental elements, hairstyling experiments, and just human life itself, the latter start to suffer.

Because of this, the helpless tips break off in especially vulnerable, damaged areas and are unable to endure all of life’s hardships. We note that it is fragile.

Brittleness is indicated by damaged hair or hair tips. They are often tangled together, hard, prickly, "lifeless," and ugly when they lie. They also tend not to hold the style well.

Brittleness from very severe damage can be cut or distributed uniformly along its length. Alternatively, it might be in a single hair region.

In my case, I observed breakage only at the tips. It stayed at one level – about 5 cm. Higher than this, my breakage did not go. The greatest damage from this type of thinning of density was in 2017. I was growing out a part of the length that was severely damaged by bleaching. The damage was significant, and the ends were already old (this part of the hair was more than a year old), that is, also naturally worn out. Cosmetic care was carefully selected, but was not brought to the ideal. As a result, the healthy and not yet worn out part of the length remained thick, and the ends began to shine through.

Thinning

Although thinning initially resembles brittleness from damage, there is another reason why it occurs. Let’s examine a figure as an example. Youth is a time of great physical health and vitality, rapid metabolic processes, and abundant movement. A slender figure is visible. However, as time passes and life quality varies, the number may alter. It may get even thinner as a result of malnutrition or illness-related muscle and fat loss. Alternatively, it may grow thicker or bigger due to an increase in fat or muscle mass. The quality of the same hair can change over time.

Due to illness, inadequate nutrition, unhealthy lifestyle choices, and improper scalp care, follicles produce fragile, thin hair and receive less nourishment than they should. Furthermore, as hair thins, it loses density.

I can’t recall ever having thin hair, but I also can’t say that I’ve always been a good girl, eaten avocado and cottage cheese for breakfast, and slept for eight hours every day. Perhaps it did, particularly in the years when I had young children. I believe that the natural beauty of the area at the time helped me, and the density was normal overall.

If there is significant thinning, I assume that the thinning is consistent throughout the entire hair mass. We observe uniformly sparse hair if it reaches the stage where there has been a total change in hair, meaning that telogen has passed and all new hair is formed thinned.

Damage and hard impacts can also cause hair to thin in diameter. In this instance, it is simpler to identify the cause and remove it than to perform honey examinations.

After hair loss

Thinning hair is one of the most offensive things to a hair maniac. For whatever reason, initially thick, healthy hair falls out of the scalp in large quantities. In other words, the telogen phase quickens. It appears as though the body is releasing ballast. Perhaps this is how, in its perspective, it gets ready for real trouble. Furthermore, it lacks the strength necessary to hold onto telogen hair. Conserving?

As long as you maintain a healthy lifestyle and take good care of your hair and scalp, the rest of the hair will stay in good condition. They do not split at the ends, break off, or thin out (point 2 says they simply won’t have time to do so). They suffer from quantity loss.

If the hair loss is severe, persistent, or sporadic and overlaps from period to period, we see distinct gaps in the length. These gaps are distinguished by how far they protrude into the hair.

It’s split into individual strands for the whole length. Since 2021, I have been witnessing this kind of thinning.

Fluor / smoothness

The HairManiac website’s writers and readers’ experiences indicate that certain changes in the body can alter the structure of hair. Naturally silky hair may start to become unruly and fluff up the length, giving the appearance of more density. And the other way around.

This parameter is frequently heavily impacted by the styling technique, skin care products, and surroundings. This is the situation when we have instant control over how hair looks. For more volume, make it thicker or style it.

Why are the gaps larger on the side

I observe that the gaps on the sides of the cut are stronger and deeper than the gaps in the middle when my density is thinning. The comments section of this post contained some thought-provoking ideas. I concur with every concept and presumption. They need to be somewhere. Additionally, I believe the point is simply in the location of hair on the head.

You will notice that there is simply less hair on the sides of your head than on the parietal and occipital areas if you part your hair across your head above your ears. The back of your head has hair, but the area around your ears is hairless. It is normal for more hair to remain in the area at the back of your head when hair falls out all over the place. As a result, the sides of the cut are more visible than the middle.

I see that you have short, thin hair above your ears. On the other hand, it is thick and fully extended on the back of your head. Thinning hair density is also impacted by this.

How does brittleness differ from hair loss

Let’s examine a particular instance.

Damaged hair is brittle and thinner than it should be. The length’s badly damaged section is visible due to brittleness. Although it appears to be missing, there is actually still hair there. The hair becomes more transparent as it becomes more damaged.

Good quality hair is opaque in cases of severe hair loss. The threads are clear. Their normal thickness. However, the hair mass contains gaps—large, empty areas. These gaps were filled in by the same hair prior to hair loss. The gaps spread higher along the length of the hair the longer the hair and the more frequent the hair loss.

How to restore thickness

Solving the problem at the root

We should reevaluate how we treat and view hair if the ends are transparent because they break.

• Are these cosmetics and how to use them suitable for us?
• Does the hair receive adequate nutrition, hydration and conditioning?
• Maybe it is worth connecting restoration?
• Maybe there is an excellent mask in the care that provides hair with everything at once, but we use it too rarely? Or too often? Or leave it on the hair too long?
• What if the problem is not in the mask at all, but, say, in the habit of laying out the hair anyhow so that it often gets caught in the zipper of a jacket or rubs under the straps of a backpack?

With the answers to these and related questions, you can prevent brittleness and keep yourself safe from it for a very long time. With haircuts, the ends will gradually or instantly fall out, restoring fullness to the hair density.

Everybody is unique. Every time you wash your hair, some hair types require intense hydration. Others require dependable defense against air humidity. You can create your own care regimen by starting with the average information provided in the post about how to choose cosmetics for long, natural hair with a medium porosity under normal humidity conditions.

When I originally used the term "balance of care," I did not mean to refer to a 50/50 hydration/nutrition ratio or jar ratio. I’m referring to the hair’s inherent balance.

If you do not want to cut brittle hair yet, mechanical conditioning takes place. A conditioner-rinse smoothes the scales of the hair cuticle chemically. We can additionally smooth the strands with a brush. With natural bristles or nylon. With or without hot styling. The better the hair is conditioned, the more successfully it retains moisture inside and does not frizz from it on the outside.

For me, using a hairdryer and brush to style my damaged hair kept it intact for a very long time. They also lie well.

❓️ Can a cold brush be used in place of a hot styler? Indeed. To prevent friction and dishevelment, you must carefully and firmly curl and braid your hair. The curly method works similarly.

This is a more serious task. This is where you really need to know how your body feels. Determine illnesses, both acute and chronic, and potential deficiencies. Consider the standard of living.

• Are you getting enough sleep?
• Are you getting the necessary nutrition from food?
• Is your central nervous system not shattered?
• Is there oxygen starvation and muscle breakdowns from a sedentary lifestyle, etc?

You can only expect healthy hair that is full of thickness from them if the body as a whole is restored to health. Additionally, the outcome won’t be visible on day two. It will probably be seen in a few years.

The regrowth of hair thickness will be beneficial in any event. Enhancing one’s mental and physical health is the most important thing. Your wellbeing may improve more quickly than the thickness of your hair will return if the causes are removed.

If the body’s natural thinning hair volume is maintained, that’s a good thing. Cosmetics are an option for thickening. This, in my experience, was the situation. Henna-colored hair plus a lot of makeup.

Following hair loss

Initially, we identify the cause or causes of this disagreeable occurrence. Nervous tension, illness, strong impact on the scalp, hormonal surge, long flight. Once the cause has been located and, if feasible, removed, there are just two jobs left:

1. stimulation of the scalp for rapid hair growth;
2. maintaining thin strands in good condition.

The cut ages more quickly even if the hair was healthy until the very end prior to the hair loss. The broom and twig principle. You could take drastic measures like cutting off the visible portion of the length. The gaps can be quite large and dispersed over the majority of the length, which is the issue. How this can occur on a short haircut is beyond me.

There are a lot of stimulants. Both industrially produced and homemade. One of them Constant Delight lotion concentrate against hair loss, 100 ml / 1300 rubles. Has a cooling effect. I had an experience with it in 2020. Hair grew 2 times faster than without it.

Permit me to remind you. Ideally, deep scalp cleansing should be combined with leave-in lotion care. This could be a detox mask, a peeling/scrub, or a shampoo from the anti-hair loss line.

More personalized length care. Depending on the environment, your perception of their beauty, and the structure and state of the hair.

In the event that you decide to tighten up a loose structure, focus on makeup from the matching line. Take the 300 ml/900 ruble Brelil Numero Illuminating mask, for instance. hefty and thick. efficiently adds shine and waviness while aligning and smoothing porous hair. Further details regarding this care.

Permit me to remind you. Deep cleaning shampoo must be used promptly after using "void fillers" and heavy film formers to ensure proper maintenance.

Conversely, if you wish to draw attention to the natural beauty while maintaining a tidy and healthy appearance, I suggest the organic line of products Vieso from the Dancoly brand. I was especially fond of the conditioner that contained honey. It went well with light, luscious hair that was also very shiny and submissive. Further details regarding this care.

I’ll remember. Using SHGO for lengthy cleanings is not necessary when caring for premium organics.

Masking the consequences

Makeup tricks

With the aid of makeup, you can visually increase the density of your hair by making it thicker. I was into this when my hair was bleached to the point of extreme damage. Products containing polymers, proteins, and silicones provided a pleasing visual effect. Plus, masks from Angel Professional. The second ones appeared to saturate the hair from the inside out, giving the impression that I had "a lot of hair" on my structure, whereas the first ones left a thick film on the hair’s surface. Further details regarding this care.

This is where caution is required. Over time, cosmetic coating builds up on the hair and ages. It must be updated as soon as possible. The industry creates unique (technical) product series for these uses. Peelings, masks, and shampoos. They reveal the hair and remove any cosmetics that have become lodged in it from the first use. Furthermore, you can resume using thickening agents.

In this case, styling can work. When we want loose hair, we can apply it along the length or on the volume starting at the roots. Hairstyles that use collected hair to create volume are also intriguing. For instance, thick braids and buns. The most important factor is that the hairstyle shouldn’t cause breakage, thinning, or loss. Three easy hairstyles to try for long, thin hair.

My hair today

While working on this publication, my hair is falling out on occasion from long flights and abrupt time zone changes. Rare ends are more likely to shatter.

At the beginning of the search for suitable care in a new place, my hair suffered from over-moistening and over-nourishment. It was excessively voluminous. It had an unsightly appearance. I tried to smooth it out as much as possible. And when I achieved the desired mirror smoothness, the problem of gaps became more acute. The smoothness emphasized it. Now I am in another search for new care. For thickening or volume: I have not decided yet. For now, I am saved by cold styling for volume along the length. I twist my hair into a low bun at night. This eliminates frizz along the length of the hair and visually increases the hair.

Comprehending the distinction between hair breakage and hair loss is imperative for proficient hair maintenance. Hair loss usually stems from internal problems like hormone changes or heredity, whereas hair breakage is usually caused by external factors like heat styling or harsh treatments. Making the appropriate decisions about your hair care can be aided by determining if it is breaking or falling out.

Numerous factors, such as inadequate nutrition, stress, or underlying medical conditions, can contribute to hair thinning. Improving hair thickness requires addressing these problems. You can help strengthen your hair and keep it from getting too thin by using gentle hair care products, managing stress, and implementing a balanced diet.

Think about using volumizing and strengthening products to give your hair more thickness. A healthy lifestyle, regular trims, and appropriate hair care practices can all have a big impact. You can enjoy a more vibrant mane and healthier, fuller-looking hair with the appropriate technique.

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