Why Hair So Nice and Thick After Coloring?

[Thinning Sucks]

I just love the way my hair looks after I apply Men's Choice to get rid of the grey. The thickness is just awesome. Why can't this be achieved with a shampoo? The hair must really expand with the coloring solution.

 

[Bob Booley]

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BOOLEY

 

[The Gardener]

The hair does expand after coloring... but not because it is healthy, it is actually thicker because of the damage that the coloring does to it. Most hair colors are peroxide based and peroxide damages hair by stripping it.

Think of a single cord of rope. It is made of interwoven strands of cotton or nylon or hemp, whatever, wound together to make a single very strong rope cord. Now, take a cheese grater and scruff up the rope to the point that some of the interwoven strands become loose and the rope starts to get tattered. Compare the tattered rope to the unscruffed rope. It will be thicker because the once-compacted and woven strands are now loose and have expanded. Coloring does the same thing to the protein strands in your hair. Not only that, but your hair will seem thicker because as the hair is brushed on top of other hairs, the net effect of the tattered strands will poof up your hair a bit more.

Keep in mind that this is not traumatic damage to your hair... the same tattering process happens to your hair even if you don't color it as an effect of daily shampooing and styling, but coloring definitely accelerates it.

 

[Bob Booley]

Gardener- this was a sales pitch, dude! We have all kinds of guys like that come in here and advertise products!

 

[coffee]

booley, don't be so jumpy bro!

 

[hopewas]

dying your hair a lighter color can conceal thinning, but in the long run i hear that it's not good for your hair and might actually make you lose your hair quicker

 

[Thinning Sucks]

dying your hair a lighter color can conceal thinning, but in the long run i hear that it's not good for your hair and might actually make you lose your hair quicker

I always dye darker.....

 

[Ams99]

dying your hair a lighter color can conceal thinning, but in the long run i hear that it's not good for your hair and might actually make you lose your hair quicker

why would you lose your hair quicker? it doesn't seem like you'd be damaging the roots or the follicle.

 

[hopewas]

i just know a lot of people who dye their hair and they have less and less hair every time i see them. i could be wrong but i'm not taking that chance

 

[Thinning Sucks]

i just know a lot of people who dye their hair and they have less and less hair every time i see them. i could be wrong but i'm not taking that chance

You younger dudes don't realize that grey needs to be go to look younger!

 

[youngguy_uk]

if u lighten ur hair only on the tips, i.e. highlights, does this affect balding? if ur only lightening the tips and not touching the roots...

 

[youngguy_uk]

sorry to push this question! HairLossTalk.com maybe u could help on this one? think i noticed on one of ur pics u have highlights..

 

[HairlossTalk]

My personal opinion based upon personal experience is that it is an illusion. When I first get my hair colored, he does it down to the roots up front. For about 3 days my hair looks like hell, then the dark brown starts to grow in and once that "layer" of dark hair has appeared, my hair immediately looks thicker. Noticeably. Coloring hair darker always makes hair look at least a little thicker. GOing from a gray to a brown is going from lighter to darker, so this fits.

I haven't heard Gardeners theory before but it is possible. I haven't looked into it. I know for me, that my hair always looks best when the tips are light and the roots are dark. Definitely creates an illusion of thickness.

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