How to determine hair type

Hair styles. How to determine hair type? Test

Knowing your hair type - is the foundation of a successful home hair care.

That is, depending on the type of hair should choose shampoos and masks, otherwise you can seriously harm.

To understand how to determine your type of hair, for them just to watch, and if you are having difficulties in determining hair type will help you test later in this article.

What types of hair there? This is a normal, dry, oily and combination (oily at the roots, but dry at the ends) hair.

Also, the hair is divided into thick and thin, emaciated and healthy. However, the type of hair can vary slightly depending on the state of health, climate, care - to become more dry or greasy, healthier or exhausted.

Advantages and disadvantages of each type of hair.

Advantages and disadvantages of each type of hair
For example, oily hair can look more healthy and shiny (though not for long), they are less susceptible to age-related changes. Fat content of the hair depends on the fat content of the skin of the head and the activity of the sebaceous glands, as well as on the type of food - plenty of carbohydrates in the form of sweets and fatty, fried, spicy food, and fast food make the skin and hair more greasy.
Dry hair does not require frequent washing, as long non-greasy and does not become dirty look. Cons dry hair that they look dull and lifeless, are cut at the ends, greatly confused and torn. Perhaps the appearance of fine dry dandruff. Often, dry hair are those not by nature, but as a result of improper care or abuse of certain procedures - coloring, perm, styling ironing, hairdryer.
Mixed is more typical for long hair when the hair roots is quite fatty, but the tips of grease is not enough, why they become dry and flogged. Depleted hair feels rough, porous, unruly, have lost their shine and elasticity.
The proposed table below tells you how to determine the type of hair, but only when the hair more or less healthy, not damaged or depleted. For a variety of damaging factors and cosmetic procedures often lead to very strong variations in the condition of the hair.
Here, for example, thin hair torn and whipped, be they dry, though oily and thick - sometimes does not spoil.

Table for determining the type of hair:

hair Type	normal	Fatty	dry	Mixed (greasy at the roots and dry at the tips)
The need for washing	Every 2 - 3 days	Daily	Once a week	Every 2 - 4 days
Scalp, hair roots	After washing, normal, a couple of days after fatty	After washing, the normal, the first day in the evening or in the morning a second back fat	After washing - dry or normal, normal 3-4 days, the 7th day - fatty	After washing the normal 2-3 days fatty
The tips (with an average length of the hair)	Normal or slightly dry, may be slightly split tips	Do not whipped or flogged almost	Dry, brittle, can be a lot of broken or split ends	Dry, whipped
shine	After washing - pure brilliance, 2-3 days - shine at the roots	Net shine after washing, the shine to the end of the first day or the second morning	After washing - light shine, then fade hair	After washing the roots clean shine, shine a little - on the tips. At 3-4 day - shine at the roots and lack of gloss on the tips
Splendor and volume	Normal splendor	Only immediately after washing or no	Strengthened	The average may pushitsya tips
Electrification	Sometimes	Rarely	Often	Perhaps the tips
Laying without styling tools	They lend themselves well	Hair to style, but it is kept short	Poor to style	radical styling

Normal basic care at home:

• . For normal hair   use a shampoo for normal hair 2-3 times a week or more often if necessary, balms and masks, if desired - indelible means caring. Hair treatments are not contraindicated.

• For oily hair. Wash your hair every day or every other day a mild shampoo. Once a week, wash your hair with shampoo for deep cleaning. Sometimes you can make a mask suitable for you, but do not get carried away and to avoid silicones. If desired, use the means for the ends. Limit carbohydrate content of the diet, fat, fried, sweet, spicy, smoked. Drink plenty of clean water. Read the article "Greasy hair. What should I do? " >>>

• For dry hair. Use very gentle home care and cleaning. About once every 5-6 days, wash your hair with a moisturizing shampoo for dry hair without silicones. Do not carry out coloring and perm.Permission is granted to use care products containing silicone, if the hair is subjected to coloring, straightening, chemical perms. Regularly use indelible means caring for moisturizing hair. Once in 1-2 months shave tips.

• For mixed type of hair. Wash your hair 2-3 times a week shampoo for mixed or normal hair, use balms and masks. Do not use silikonosoderzhaschimi care products, if the hair is not subjected to coloring, bleaching, perms. For tips, it is desirable to use indelible moisturizing agents .