Transgender Hair Assessment: How to Work Out What Is Happening

A transgender hair assessment is observation before expenditure. This guide walks through separating hair loss, shedding and breakage, photographing the pattern properly, building a two year timeli...

Androgenetic Alopecia in Trans Men: What to Expect

Androgenetic alopecia in trans men is inherited pattern hair loss, switched on when testosterone raises androgen levels into the male range. This guide covers the patterns to expect, how to tell it...

Hair Care After Exercise and Sweating: A Practical Guide

Sweat is mostly water and salt, so a warm rinse clears most of it and shampoo is for the oily days. Here is what hair care after exercise and sweating actually needs, plus the drying and tying habi...

Rebound Alopecia: Why Hair Falls Again and What Helps

Rebound alopecia is hair that starts falling again after a period of calm. This guide separates hair loss, shedding and breakage, walks through the usual triggers, and sets out a realistic timeline...

Pomade Acne: Why Hair Products Break Out Your Hairline

Pomade acne is the band of small spots that forms along the hairline, temples and upper forehead when styling products migrate onto skin and block pores. This guide covers how to tell it from ordin...

Post HRT Shedding: Why It Happens and What Helps

Post HRT shedding is the burst of hair fall that follows starting, changing or stopping hormone replacement therapy, and it typically arrives two to three months after the change rather than straig...

FTM Hair Loss on Testosterone: Keeping the Hair You Have

FTM hair loss on testosterone is two jobs at once: keeping the hair you have and supporting the follicles still producing. Testosterone raises DHT, and sensitive follicles thin at the temples and c...

Heat Damage to Hair: How to Spot It and Prevent It

Heat damage is permanent change to the hair fibre from tools running hotter than it can tolerate. Here is how to recognise it, the temperature ceilings that suit your hair type, and why prevention ...

Why the Same Hair Product Gives Different Results

Why the same hair product gives different results is mostly a question about the people, not the formula. Cause, stage, scalp condition, application habits and hair type all vary between two users ...

Androgen Receptor Expression and Your Hair, Explained

Androgen receptor expression is how strongly a hair follicle responds to hormones, and it explains why thinning follows a pattern. This guide covers receptor sensitivity, why the back of the head i...