BEAUTY

Damage Control

Fried, flaky, frizzy, flat: bad hair days happen. Brush them

off with these solutions to your hairiest nightmares.

by MELISSA Ml LRAD GOLDSTEIN and AN KITA A TALWAR

“Smoothing treatm ents

create a thin, protective layer

around each strand to keep

hair from bending back over

onto itself and frizzing up.”

BRITNEY HUINKIER, PRESIDENT,

BRAZILIAN BLOWOUT

ISSUECHEM ICAL DAMAGE

SOLUTION

G e ttin g y o u r h a ir c o lo u re d in v o lv e s tw o

th in g s : d y e a n d c h e m ic a ls. A n d th a t m e a n s o d o u r, a

s tin g in g sc alp , a n d th a t d ry , ‘d y e d ’ te x tu r e . Y ou’v e b e e n

a b le to avoid it b y u s in g a n a m m o n ia -fre e d y e, b u t a t a

p r e tty sig n ific a n t tra d e -o ff: sh o rt-liv e d c o lo u r. U n til

now . W ith IN O A , L’O ré a l P ro fe ss io n n e l h a s co m e u p

w ith a p e r m a n e n t o il- a n d c re a m -b a s e d c o lo u r t h a t ’s

c o m p le te ly f re e o f a m m o n ia (th e n a m e is a n a c ro n y m o f

In n o v a tio n N o A m m o n ia ). T h e r e s u lt is la s tin g c o lo u r

w ith o u t s tra w -lik e s tra n d s . IN O A is a n in -s a lo n c o lo u r

tr e a tm e n t a n d is a v a ila b le a t s e le c t L ’O ré a l sa lo n s a c ro ss

th e c o u n try . A sk fo r it.

ISSUETHINNING

SOLUTION

I t ’s c a lle d a lo p e c ia —a s te rile , te c h n ic a l n a m e

for w h a t’s a v e ry e m o tio n a l to p ic fo r w o m e n : h a ir lo ss

(b e y o n d th e a v e ra g e o f 5 0 to 100 s tr a n d s sh e d e a c h

day). I f yo u n o tic e y o u r h a ir p a r tin g g e ttin g w id e r o r

h a i r c o m in g o u t in c lu m p s, re s is t th e u rg e to g ra b a

to p ic a l tre a tm e n t, a n d fo c u s o n g e ttin g to th e r o o t o f

th e p ro b le m , so to sp e a k . “T h e re a re a lo t o f d iffe re n t

fa c to rs th a t c a n c a u s e h a ir s h e d d in g a n d th e tr e a tm e n t

is d iffe re n t fo r e a c h , so it’s im p o r ta n t to se e a d o c to r fo r

f u r th e r te s tin g ,” says D r A n u p D h ir, S e n io r C o sm e tic

S u rg e o n a t I n d r a p r a s th a A p o llo H o sp ita l, D e lh i.

F o r so m e , th e c a u s e is te m p o ra ry , s u c h as c h ild b irth ,

illn e ss, o r p h y sic a l o r e m o tio n a l tra u m a . (T h e s tr a in

o f s u c h e v e n ts s h u ts d o w n h a ir p ro d u c tio n .) O n ce th e

o rd e a l p a s se s, so to o w ill th e h a ir lo ss. O th e r c a u s e s

(an d re a s o n s to se e th e d o c to r) a r e th y ro id im b a la n c e ,

m e ta b o lic o r e n d o c rin e d is o rd e r, P C O S, a n d iro n

d eficien cy . T h e s e c a n b e d e te rm in e d b y a b lo o d te s t, a n d

tr e a tin g th e c o n d itio n o fte n tr e a ts th e s h e d d in g .

F o r o th e rs , a lo p e c ia tu r n s o u t to b e a h e r e d ita r y

c o n d itio n . L ik e m e n , w o m e n in h e rit a g e n e tic

p r o p e n s ity fo r h a ir loss. B u t r a th e r th a n a b a ld p a tc h o r

r e c e d in g h a irlin e , w o m e n a re m o re lik e ly to e x p e rie n c e

a g ra d u a l o v e ra ll th in n in g ( s ta r tin g fro m th e c e n tre o f

th e scalp ), w h ic h c a n s ta r t as e a rly a s p u b e rty . T h e m o s t

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