Hair Loss Options: How to Judge What Is Worth Your Money

Weighing up hair loss options is easier when you take them in order: work out the cause, take anything medical to a GP or pharmacist, and think of cosmetic hair care as the thing that protects the ...

Safe Hair Growth Treatments: An Honest Comparison

Safe hair growth treatments are not all equally safe or equally effective, and the marketing rarely says which is which. This guide compares the cosmetic, device and clinic options on evidence, ris...

Female Pattern Hair Loss: The Options, Compared

Female pattern hair loss shows as a widening parting while the frontal hairline holds. This guide explains how to recognise it, which blood tests to ask a GP about first, and compares the five cate...

Trichotillomania: Signs, Causes and What Helps

Trichotillomania is a recognised condition in which a person repeatedly pulls out their own hair and cannot easily stop. Here is how to recognise it, how it differs from alopecia areata, the behavi...

Pattern Hair Loss: Stages, Causes and What Helps

Pattern hair loss is the slow, zonal thinning driven by an inherited sensitivity to DHT. Here is the mechanism, the Norwood and Ludwig staging scales, how fast it really moves, and an honest rankin...

Thinning Crown: Early Signs and What Genuinely Helps

A thinning crown is common, and it is usually further along than you realise because you never see the back of your own head. This guide covers the early signs, how to tell breakage from miniaturis...

Anagen Phase of Hair Growth: How Long Hair Can Get

The anagen phase of hair growth is the active growing stage, and its length decides how long your hair can ever get. This guide covers what happens in the follicle, why anagen runs two to seven yea...

Sudden Hair Loss in Females: Causes and Next Steps

Sudden hair loss in females is usually telogen effluvium, triggered two to three months earlier by illness, childbirth, dieting, low iron or stress. Here are the causes, the blood tests to ask for,...

Ludwig Scale Female Hair Loss Stages, Explained

Ludwig scale female hair loss grading describes density on top of the head in three steps while the frontal hairline holds. Here is what each grade looks like, how to place yourself without letting...

Androgenic Alopecia Triggers: What Starts and Speeds It

Androgenic alopecia triggers split into the one you inherited and the events that decide how early it shows. This guide separates cause from accelerant, explains how to read a family history proper...