Human hair; from folds in the scalp to baldness
You're wondering what's wrong with your hair?
But, you've never even touched your scalp with your nails and fingertips?
Well, do it right now!
Press your nails into your scalp and you'll understand that the hardened skin makes it impossible for hair to grow properly.
However, if you move your nails around the surface, you'll discover all kinds of ridges, bumps and holes.
Those are cutaneous folds and their crossings.
They're responsible for the hardening of the skin.
So cheer up, because cutaneous folds can be unfolded using human grooming techniques.
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The main cutaneous folds on the scalp
Main folds on the top of the scalp
Front top view
Horizontal folds circle your knees, waist, neck and all your articulations.
They form this concentric pattern at the top of your scalp.
The top of your scalp is one of the most folded area on your body.
This is caused by the unusual pattern the folds create as they reach the top of your head.
The folds form compressed lines, and their crossings deeply anchor the skin to the skull.
The skin becomes so hard that it cannot be pinched and pulled away, like you would do elsewhere on your body.
That's why it isn't called skin anymore; it's scalp.
Main folds on the back of the scalp
Back view
HORIZONTAL FOLDS |
VERTICAL FOLDS |
The skin on the back of your scalp is much less folded than it is on the top of your head.
The folds follow the same regular horizontal-vertical pattern you find on most of your body.
This explains why hair loss is less frequent or severe on the back of the head.
Is your scalp an infertile place to grow?
Cutaneous folds and hair loss
Is the skin at the top of your head so hard that nothing could grow there?
Does the skin feel compacted to the touch and more rigid than elsewhere on your body?
If you do nothing, the situation will only get worse.
Like the earth of a neglected garden, the skin of your scalp needs to be tilled if you want something to grow there.
You'll have to remove the hardness to restore the skin's elasticity.
You don't need to buy expensive equipment to do the work.
You are naturally equipped with the best tools to do the job.
Your fingernails.
Alopecia, hair loss and baldness
Science will tell you the number of hair follicles you have diminishes with age.
Where do they go?
Do they vanish?
No, they become engulfed in cutaneous folds.
Trapped between two sheets of skin.
The hair is strangled and compressed by the skin tension.
When the follicles are imprisoned in this way, they slow their hair production.
Hair density is slowly reduced.
Then, it halts completely.
When balding occurs, the skin has become so tight it feels like a solid material to your touch, and it has lost part of its sensitivity.
In many cases, the alopecia starts:
● On the forehead notches, where several folds from your face take a hold.
Some damage is already visible at birth.
● At the hair vertex or crown, where a series of folds creates a swirl in your hair at the back of your head.
These areas become larger and the hair on them gets scarcer.
Not genetic, nor hereditary or hormonal
Hair loss is not an illness.
It's a lack of care.
The hair condition of your ancestors cannot affect your own.
Similarities in skull features and lifestyles explain those found in balding patterns.
The crusted scalp
The scalp is richly equipped in sebum glands.
Just think of how many hair strands you have and you can picture them all.
This region becomes covered with a crust of hard sebum-epidermis mixture.
The tension is so great, it makes growing conditions unfriendly.
This skin should be as soft and extensible as any other.
Dandruff
Without regular grooming with your nails, the dead skin cells your scalp produces stay in place.
They dry up, and some fall off as dandruff.
Grooming removes the dandruff flakes in the most natural manner.
In the absence of grooming, the crust on your scalp keeps on thickening, continuously shedding what it can.
Moreover, the extra sebum hinders any exfoliation process.
Humans have more hair follicles than chimpanzees
Even if chimpanzees or gorillas have a hairy appearance, it's humans who win in this category.
Humans have more hair follicles per square inch of skin than them.
Our hair has shrunken and lost its color on many parts of the body except the top of the head and a few other areas.
In spite of this, the hair follicles, the hair producing equipment, are all intact, inside the skin.
Your palms, soles, lips, eyelids, penis, labia minora and nipples are the only hairless patches on your body.
Furthermore, their quantity and body distribution is similar for all the populations of our race.
When you look closely at anybody's skin, mostly in the sun, you will see hair all over the place.
Hair follicles are extremely resistant.
Almost all primate babies cling to their mother's fur to get around.
How to rejuvenate your scalp using grooming techniques
A plane surface
Your scalp is an easy surface to groom because it's flat, with no feature to obstruct your actions.
This makes it an ideal place to use:
● Four-finger techniques; where you line-up your nails together,
● Two-handed techniques; where you work simultaneously on both sides of the head.
Two methods to work on the scalp; use them both
Both methods use the same hand position;
● Group and align the nails of four fingers on both hands,
● Raise your hands to the same place on each side of your head.
Once your hands are in the correct position, you can use the two following methods to rejuvenate your scalp:
●1 Pressure strokes,
●2 Superficial strokes.
●1- Peck your scalp with pressure strokes
The skin of your scalp is too hard for hair to grow.
The only way you can restore its elasticity is to knead it repeatedly, as you would do with an old piece of dried-up plasticine or putty.
You cannot plow your scalp with your nails in the same way you would plow a field.
Your scalp is living flesh; it would be injured and bleed.
Once you've pressed your nails deeply into the skin; don't move or you will hurt yourself.
You'll get the job done by repeatedly pressing your nails into your scalp, but only for a few seconds.
HOW TO PECK YOUR SCALP WITH PRESSURE STROKES
●1 Align your nails on both hands,
●2 Place your hands on your scalp at symmetrical positions,
●3 Press your nails into your scalp forcefully for a few seconds,
●4 Move your nail's position a bit, and repeat.
Peck your scalp this way, for a few minutes, several times a day.
You will feel the folds illustrated above as hardened lines; spend more time working on them.
Put more efforts on the areas where you see that the hair coverage is lessening.
With time, you will feel the skin's hardness reduce, and its elasticity increase.
●2 - Remove the top epidermis coat with superficial strokes
This is the fun and easy part of your work.
The topmost coat of epidermis on your scalp is made up of dried dead cells that flake away as dandruff.
You can remove these cells by raking your scalp with your nails, but you can only apply light pressure, or you'll hurt yourself.
HOW TO RAKE YOUR SCALP WITH SUPERFICIAL STROKES
●1 Align your nails on both hands,
●2 Place your nails on your scalp at symmetrical positions,
●3 Press your nails lightly into your scalp, and slowly move your hands around the whole surface.
Don't apply too much pressure when you move your hands, or you'll not only hurt yourself, you'll uproot your remaining hair follicles.
When done with light pressure, this technique will free your scalp, but it will also reset and reposition your hair follicles.
Doing this provokes a pleasant sensation, and you can feel that your hair follicles love the treatment.
Mapping your head
You have to locate the folds and their crossings on your head in order to groom them specifically.
When you pass your nails over your scalp, you won't have any trouble finding:
● Folds; they feel like lines of insensitive, hardened skin.
● Lumps and holes; those are fold crossings.
Make a mental map of the hardened places and abnormal features.
It will help you understand your problem and guide you on where to work the most.
Grooming your scalp under the shower
When you wash your hair, your movements are very similar to grooming.
All you have to do is to press your nails a bit more into your scalp.
You want to increase the pressure while letting your hands travel freely.
Both the soap and the water have an epidermis removing action and make the skin more malleable.
Don't miss the opportunity, groom your scalp every time you shampoo.
Get informed about human grooming
Human grooming lets you use your nails and fingertips to unfold your skin and remove dead cells and on your whole body.
The following video will get you started:
Human grooming rediscovered - Video |
The hair follicle
Hair is produced by the skin.
It is made of compacted skin cells just like nails.
The factories, producing these compressed filaments, are the hair follicles.
Hair follicles are deeply rooted into your skin, about three-sixteenths of an inch, and generate keratin and a little melanin.
They do this at possibly the fastest multiplication rate of the human body.
Keratin is a hard protein.
Nails, claws, feathers, hooves and horns are also made out of it.
The melanin adds the color component.
Hair, unlike plants, grows from the base.
Once it has exited the follicle, it is dead.
How sebum is released
Each hair follicle has one sebum gland (or more) attached to it.
Sebum is the natural skin and hair oil.
As your grooming nail bristles the base of the hair, it puts pressure on its gland to liberate some sebum.
This is a superbly well-designed system.
It allows sebum to be expelled precisely where it is needed as a lubricant for grooming.
Conclusions
Alopecia affects mostly male humans.
Hair plays such a big part in one's self-esteem that I think it may be one of the main incentives to get males to groom.
Men are affected quite young by their lack of grooming with acne, hair loss and uglying.
Once you groom one area, the habit easily shifts to another.
I have to warn you against trying to groom only the top of your head and not your face.
All the tension released from the top would transfer to the bottom, making you uglier.
So, I think that only a whole head approach will do.
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