How to determine the degree of hair damage

Normal hair condition is a rarity for our realities. Frequent coloring, use of styling products, poor ecology, unbalanced diet, bad habits affect the health and appearance of locks. Even with properly selected care to get rid of dryness, brittleness, dullness is difficult. In this case will help the master, who determines the degree of damage to the hair and based on this select therapeutic procedures or cosmetics for restoration. How the diagnosis of damage is performed and how they are classified, we will tell you below.

How to check the quality of hair: professional methods

Hair consists of 90% keratin, lipids, natural pigments and moisture compounds. If you examine the hairs under a microscope, externally they will resemble the structure of a tree. The inner part is covered with a layer of cortex, and the shell is keratin keratin cells. How to check the hair for elasticity? To do this, the expert uses a microscope and collects all the necessary information.

• Collecting data about the condition of the curls from the client. Since all people's hair grows at different speeds, the master tries to identify this speed, asking about how many times the client trims the ends, what dye and oxidizer he uses for coloring. Also need data on cardinal coloring, performed chemzavivki, procedures such as Botox, keratin, nanoplasty, lamination, etc.

• The master examines the hair strands, studying the quality of coloring visually. With unevenly colored locks, the master may perform a number of actions to give them uniformity, and then change the pigment. The ethnic type of hair is also important - Afro, Asian or Slavic. This is another way how to determine the porosity of the hair, if it is planned to perform coloring or various care services.

• At the third stage, the master washes the head or at least one strand of SHGO. Washing off the residue of products, the professional will be able to reveal other data about the curls, which previously could not be collected.

• A strand dried without the use of a comb, brush or any styling products gives an opportunity to see what condition the curls are in.

• Tests are carried out to determine the elasticity, porosity and strength of the curl.

Based on the information obtained, the technician diagnoses the client's damage.

5 degrees of hair damage

1. The first degree of damage is diagnosed in hair that has not been subjected to coloring. Such hairs look healthy, shiny, do not pull when passing the elasticity test.

2. Such types of hair damage, such as dryness, split ends, dullness, speak of the second degree.

3. Hair restoration products for third-degree damage allow you to cope with the problems caused by bleaching with an oxidizer with 3% oxide.

4. The fourth degree is visually detectable dry ends, ends that do not reflect light, stretching when passing the elasticity test.

5. The greatest damage is at the fifth degree. The hairs pull very hard without returning to their original position.