A BEAUTY whizz has revealed all the truth about losing hair – and how your shampooing routine affects it.
On average, it is believed that humans lose roughly a hundred pieces of hair every day – but is this a normal amount or should you be concerned?
Answering questions about all things hair and beauty, one whizz, Michelle Pritchard, from Pennsylvania, the US, took it to TikTok to explain how shampooing plays a huge part in your hair loss.
”I’m a professional hairstylist of 17 years and nobody is talking about this one thing – how often you wash your hair is going to be what decides how much hair you lose.
”On average, people use around a hundred strands of hair every day.
”But if you’re someone who shampoos every three, four, five, six, seven even eight days, you’re not at 800 hairs that need to come out.
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”So what that means is if you haven’t shampooed for a couple of days, no worries.
”But if you get in the shower and it’s starting to feel like more hair is coming out in the shower and then you go to brush out and more hair is coming out, you’re not losing more hair.
”It’s just that your hair is now releasing and because you haven’t shampooed in a couple of days – I’m sure you probably haven’t brushed through it either – so that is why you’re feeling that you’re losing so much more hair.”
She continued: ”Hair loss is normal.
”For instance, I just washed my hair yesterday and now I’m washing it again today because I was at the pool all day and I just didn’t like the smell of the pool water.”
Demonstrating a small chunk of hair, Michelle said: ”And look, not much hair loss there.
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”But had I waited three, four, five days, this would’ve been three to four to five times more hair.”
With over 3.5million views, the video has gone viral on social media and has seen many people thank the guru.
”This is exactly what I needed I was so worried I was losing too much hair,” one mortified beauty lover commented.
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Another penned: ”this made me feel so much better, i was worried about that earlier cuz i lost some hair and i didn’t wash it for like a week.”
Someone else was wondering: ”genuinely asking, if we lose 100 hairs a day, how are there no bald spots..”
