Losing My Hair Since Perm : Hair Care & Style Tips

Hi, my name is van thomas, and this is my sidekick tiffany and we're here to talk about a question that i was asked recently. A woman came to me and said i got a perm and ever since i got a perm, i'm losing my hair. I'Ve been in the industry 35 years and i don't think i've ever seen. Anyone who is losing their hair after a perm. What they're experiencing most likely is hair breakage and when you get a perm and it's not done properly - that breakage can occur right at the scalp, so you'll see a strip that is bald. It looks like maybe it fell out, but it actually broke off. There'S several ways that this can happen, and i just want to talk to you a little bit about how it can happen. So you can prevent it the next time that you get a perm now when they put the perm roller in your hair or the perm rod in your hair. They should be using moderate tension on the hair, not too much tension, because that the hair becomes very uh susceptible to damage once that perm chemical is put on the hair. The paper goes beyond the ends of the hair, so we're rolling paper. First, just moderate tension. You don't have to pull it really tight and crank it down as tight as you can. That'S what you don't want moderate tension once it gets down to the base. Many people think that putting this band on as tight as you can is a good way to secure this rod. So they put it all the way to the back and now what you've got is the band flat against this hair right at the scalp area, and it's very very tight when the when the perm itself is processing, the hair becomes very fragile and that band is So tight that it can snap the hair off right where the band is or right at the scalp if there's too much tension, so the ways to prevent that is, make sure it's moderate tension keep the band up on the top. You don't have, to put it all the way to the back, that's going to prevent it from leaning on the hair too hard, and the other thing is every time you put a band around the hair, put something between that band and the hair itself. Like a pick to keep that band off the hair, so it's no direct contact with the hair, so i just want to show that one more time, because these are these - are things to look for that can really really damage the hair. You don't want to put too much hair around a perm rod. You want to just take the diameter of the rod parting and the width of the rod paper should be pulled down to the end without bunching up the ends. Very, very moderate tension secure the rod along the top or upper back where the hair is and put a pick in to protect it. So this is pan thomas and we hope that explains a little bit of how breakage can occur and to not get it confused. With hair loss,