Fun Hair Facts/Events

As a hair stylist you have to be opened up to many other things, besides what you are use to because no person has the same hair and there are many techniques that can be learned. Many times, newspaper articles, hair shows, demonstration videos are helpful in learning fun and important facts about your hair.

The proud lady hair show is very fun and a great learning experience. They have the top selling companies participating such as Black Hair magazine, Motions, and many others. They are currently celebrating their twentieth anniversary. The event is usually hosted in Tinely park http://www.ahbai.org/show/

A natural website you can visit is http://www.jazma.com/. Jazma is a company that started the wash and wear relaxer. The wash and wear relaxer is a chemical process that is used to not completely straighten the hair but to loosen some of it's natural curls. Alot of people do this, but don't really know the concept behind it only the goal.

Another website that is good for getting information about all types of weaves is http://www.greathairinfusions.com/. This is a salon website which specialize in weaving hair in for a natural look, http://www.worldviewdesign.com/ as well.

When learning about hair the style is important. There are many different types of styles

• Braids/ Corn-rows
• Up-Do's (When the hair is styled up)
• Straight
• Curls (deep or tight)
• Krimpped
• Blow Outs
• Feathers
• Wraps
• Color
• Highlights

These styles can be done to any type of hair. It's different for all textures but, nothing is impossible with hair.

DID YOU KNOW..

Hair grows faster in the summer.

A strand of hair lives up to seven years.

A person loses 40 - 100 hairs a day.

The average scalp has 100,000 strands.

90% of scalp hair is growing; 10% rests .