HRT Patches and Your Hair: What to Expect in the First Months

HRT patches can come with a settling-in period for your hair, and the NHS lists hair loss among the possible early side effects of oestrogen. This guide explains the first three months, how to tell...

Post-Gonadectomy Hair: What Changes, and When

Post-gonadectomy hair change happens in two waves that are easy to confuse: a diffuse shed two to four months after the operation, then a slower hormonal change from about month three. This guide s...

Estrogenic Alopecia: What It Really Is, and What to Do

Estrogenic alopecia is a popular label rather than a recognised clinical term, and it usually turns out to be female pattern hair loss, telogen effluvium, or both at once. This guide explains how t...

Oral Estrogen and Hair: What the Route Really Changes

Oral estrogen means oestrogen taken as a daily tablet, and the route differences the NHS records are about absorption and clot risk rather than hair. This guide compares tablets with patches, gels ...

TrichoScan: What It Measures and What It Cannot Tell You

A trichoscan photographs a small clipped patch of scalp and counts hairs, measures their thickness and reports how many are growing. This guide explains what those numbers mean, why the automated c...

Shock Loss After a Hair Transplant: Timeline and Recovery

Shock loss is the diffuse shedding of your own hair after a scalp procedure, usually a hair transplant, and it arrives two to four months later rather than straight away. This guide gives the month...

Nonbinary Hair: Cuts, Colour and a Routine That Lasts

Nonbinary hair is defined by intent, not length, and the care problems are physical rather than gendered. This guide covers the cuts that grow out cleanly, why repeated bleaching breaks the fibre, ...

Hair Pigmentation: Why Hair Goes Grey, and What Actually Helps

Hair pigmentation is deposited into the fibre inside the follicle, which is why an existing strand can never change colour and no product restores grey hair from a bottle. This guide covers how pig...

Bioavailable Testosterone and Hair: What It Really Tells You

Bioavailable testosterone is the free plus albumin-bound portion of testosterone, the part tissues can actually use. This guide explains how it differs from total and free testosterone, why inherit...

Topical Hair Thinning Products: An Honest Guide

Topical hair thinning products divide into cosmetic rinse off, cosmetic leave on and medicines that belong with a GP. This guide explains what each genuinely does, which ingredient claims hold up, ...