Hair loss and Itchy scalp are pretty com­mon issues which might be gen­er­ally dis­tinct issues in it, or it can be the rea­son for the problem.

Bald­ness may be cer­tainly hard for the patient to cope with, par­tic­u­larly if in women – this doesn’t mean that it is not tough for male suf­fer­ers, how­ever many women would estab­lish their women’s char­ac­ters with their locks. Addi­tion­ally, hair loss can hap­pen every day in a nor­mal person’s life, it is not limit to age.

Find­ing the best pure treat­ment for hair loss and itchy scalp will typ­i­cally rely upon what the signs are, how­ever there are a vari­ety of nor­mal good meth­ods that you would be able to start to prac­tice that can dras­ti­cally assist the hair loss and itchy scalp problem.

Ver­ify and use dif­fer­ent Shampoo

Many cir­cum­stances hair loss and itchy scalp will turn out to be worse if con­tin­ual using harsh chem­i­cal sham­poos. What could shock you is how lots of the so-referred to as “smooth and sen­si­tive” sham­poos include sturdy indus­trial energy de-greasing chemicals.

Select a nat­ural sham­poo – it should con­tain­ing Zinc Pyrithione in its nat­ural type, which is a good for anti –fun­gal and may be good to cure itchy scalp cir­cum­stances equiv­a­lent to Seb­hor­reic Der­mati­tis and Pso­ri­a­sis – you can start to cease the irri­ta­tion to your head. It can return the pores and skin to its reg­u­lar pH balance.

Stim­u­late the scalp

A rub­bing of the head with fin­gers tips after wash­ing with cold water might help to pro­mote the  hair growth. The head needs to be rubbed vig­or­ously until it starts to tin­gle with the heat. By doing this you acti­vate the seba­ceous glands and ener­gizes the cir­cu­la­tion of blood in the affected space, which can pro­mote the hair to develop back. Watch out with this method in case you have a really sore head skin or any bro­ken pores and skin, as you might irri­tate your con­di­tion. Also, avoid the inflict­ing unnec­es­sary harm along with your fin­ger­nails. If your fin­ger­nails are long, mas­sage your scalp using your palms.

To eval­u­ate the clin­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics and psy­choso­cial dynam­ics of chil­dren with alope­cia, Ahn and Ro had reported alope­cia in chil­dren from Jan­u­ary, 1991 to March, 1995 in the First Tri­con­ti­nen­tal Meet­ing of Hair Research Soci­eties in Brussels.

This study was per­formed from April, 1995 to Decem­ber, 2000. Among 854 new alope­cia OPD patients 161(19.0%) were chil­dren under 15 year old with alope­cia (A. areata: 118, A. totalis: 32, A. uni­ver­salis: 10 and tri­chotil­lo­ma­nia: 2) Results were as follows:

1) The aver­age age of alope­cia in chil­dren was 7.8 years, and 55.9% were pri­mary school stu­dents.
2) The most com­mon type of alope­cia in chil­dren was alope­cia areata (73.3%).
3) The pre­vi­ous episodes of alope­cia were observed in 12.4%, and fam­ily his­tory was observed in 6.8%.
4) Atopic der­mati­tis was the most com­mon asso­ci­ated dis­ease (23.0%).
5) The eldest sib­ling or the chil­dren with stress­ful con­di­tion due to school task and extracuric­u­lar works had high mor­bid­ity (45.3%, 29.1%, respec­tively).
6) On the neu­ropsy­chi­atric con­sul­ta­tion, psy­chi­atri­cally prob­lem­atic cases were observed in 51.7%, and neu­rotic chil­dren and adjust­ment dis­or­ders were the most com­mon prob­lems among them.

These results sug­gest that alope­cia in chil­dren was pre­dom­i­nantly devel­oped in pri­mary school stu­dents, the eldest sib­ling, chil­dren with atopic der­mati­tis or defi­cient parent-child relationship.

Psy­cho­logic stress is an impor­tant fac­tor in the devel­op­ment of the hair loss dis­ease or may con­tribute as an aggra­vat­ing factor.

Prior to revis­ing a scar, it is impor­tant to take a care­ful patient his­tory and find out specif­i­cally what, if any­thing went wrong with pre­vi­ous surg­eries. It is pre­sump­tu­ous to think that just because a patient has scar­ring, the next pro­ce­dure will make it bet­ter. One should care­fully review the sur­gi­cal his­tory and, if pos­si­ble, speak with the orig­i­nal sur­geon to see if there are any tech­niques that could be improved upon, or prob­lems that occurred which might be avoided in future pro­ce­dures.
The cause of an unac­cept­able scar may be due to poor heal­ing intrin­sic to the patient, such as the ten­dency to form keloids. It might also be caused by a genetic pre­dis­po­si­tion to poor heal­ing because of con­nec­tive tis­sue defects, such as Ehlers-Danlos Syn­drome. Genetic or drug induced coag­u­lopathies, or med­ica­tions that inter­fere with heal­ing can also result in unac­cept­able scars. In addi­tion, scar­ring may be caused by com­pli­ca­tions such as a post-operative infec­tion or sim­ply from the patient not fol­low­ing post-op instruc­tions, such as smok­ing or per­form­ing stren­u­ous exer­cise too soon after the surgery.
As empha­sized in the pre­ced­ing dis­cus­sion, a depleted donor sup­ply is the major lim­i­ta­tion to a suc­cess­ful repair. The inabil­ity to har­vest addi­tional hair is caused by two main fac­tors. The first fac­tor is the phys­i­cal limit set by the com­bi­na­tion of low donor den­sity and poor scalp mobil­ity. When donor den­sity is low, a larger strip must be har­vested to obtain an ade­quate amount of hair. A tight scalp, how­ever, lim­its the size of the strip that can be removed. After mul­ti­ple pro­ce­dures, attempt­ing to har­vest addi­tional hair is no longer worth the risk of a pos­si­ble widened scar. Every hair trans­plant pro­ce­dure simul­ta­ne­ously decreases donor den­sity and scalp lax­ity, but poorly exe­cuted surgery does this to a greater degree and decreases the sup­ply with­out mak­ing pro­por­tion­ate cos­metic improve­ments in the recip­i­ent scalp.
The sec­ond fac­tor is the vis­i­bil­ity of the donor scars. Once the donor scars are to the point of near vis­i­bil­ity, the abil­ity to har­vest addi­tional hair is severely lim­ited, as fur­ther surgery would make the patient’s pre­vi­ous trans­plant surgery appar­ent. An impor­tant point to keep in mind in judg­ing how much addi­tional hair is avail­able, is that cov­er­age of donor scar­ring is more closely related to the amount of donor hair present than to the degree of scar­ring. There­fore, any process that removes hair along with the scar will run the risk of mak­ing the donor scar­ring more vis­i­ble. The rea­son is that when scar and hair are both removed, the clo­sure will fur­ther stretch the scalp and decrease the den­sity of the remain­ing hair. This may pre­vent it from cov­er­ing other scars that have not been excised or thin out the appear­ance of the donor fringe to an unac­cept­able degree.
Tech­niques, such as Fol­lic­u­lar Unit Extrac­tion, where fol­lic­u­lar units are har­vested directly from the donor area with­out a lin­ear exci­sion can be use­ful when the scalp is very tight. The use­ful­ness of this tech­nique is lim­ited, how­ever, as sig­nif­i­cant donor scar­ring makes remov­ing hair with­out tran­sec­tion dif­fi­cult and a donor zone of low den­sity lim­its the amount of hair that can be removed with­out the area becom­ing too transparent.

Depend­ing on your hair loss sit­u­a­tion, the cost of a hair trans­plant can vary from per­son to per­son. For some, the cost of a hair trans­plant is a major con­cern. Espe­cially is these times of eco­nomic cri­sis, spend­ing thou­sands of dol­lars on a cos­metic pro­ce­dure may seem a lit­tle extreme.

A piece of advice I would give would be to do some thor­ough research when it comes to hair trans­plant cost. Due to the pop­u­lar­ity of hair trans­plant surgery and the advances in tech­niques of fol­lic­u­lar unit graft tech­nol­ogy, the mar­ket is flooded with spe­cial low prices for hair trans­plant grafts.

Although the cost of a hair trans­plant surgery may seem extreme to many, you have to con­sider the long term invest­ment it will have on your self esteem and the results are for a life­time. If you have suf­fered from hair loss, and you are read­ing this, you know what the feel­ing is like. You may ask your­self, “where do I start?” when decid­ing on hair trans­plant cost. I real­ize cost is an issue, but you have to con­sider that what you pay now will only affect you in the short term. Sure, you want to look for the low­est price, but also keep in mind that your hair trans­plant surgery is per­ma­nent. If you try and save a few bucks and skimp a lit­tle, you may get a ‘not so impres­sive’ out­come. Most hair trans­plants are pretty good these days, so don’t get too scared. The doll-head like result is still seen at times in a town near you, but it is not so com­mon any­more. This type of surgery has really advanced in the last 10 to 15 years. The best hair trans­plant surg­eries are the pro­ce­dures that you never rec­og­nize. You don’t rec­og­nize the trans­plant because its looks so natural.

Now, sev­eral fac­tors can con­tribute to the cost of a hair trans­plant. One fac­tor would be the num­ber of ses­sions you want to have. The sec­ond fac­tor would be the type of pro­ce­dure used. Third, hair trans­plant cost may be deter­mined by where you have the pro­ce­dure. For exam­ple, the cost of a hair trans­plant may be more expen­sive if the surgery is per­formed by a hair restora­tion clinic. These clin­ics carry more of an over­head to run. Con­trar­ily, if you have the pro­ce­dure done by a doc­tor or sur­geon who is in pri­vate prac­tice, it may cost less due to the lower over­head. This will ulti­mately trans­late to a con­sid­er­able sav­ings to the client.

Over­all cost of a hair trans­plant actu­ally varies on each client’s par­tic­u­lar hair loss sit­u­a­tion. This also has to be cou­pled with real­is­tic expec­ta­tions to the client. Keep­ing the real­is­tic expec­ta­tions in mind, the cost can be as lit­tle as $2,500 all the way up to $9,000 price range. Most doc­tors’ will pitch or sell you on price per graft, which will usu­ally run between $3 to $8 price ranges. Remem­ber, each graft can con­tain 1,2,3, or 4 hairs. The aver­age price for most doc­tors is typ­i­cally $5 to $6 per graft.
Let us look at the big pic­ture of hair trans­plant cost. Many men and women spend hun­dreds of dol­lars a year on hair pre­ven­tion prod­ucts such as Rogaine and Prope­cia. These prod­ucts can be effec­tive in some peo­ple, but the results will be lost if you dis­con­tinue tak­ing these prod­ucts. Many peo­ple opt for non-surgical pro­ce­dures such as hair sys­tems, hair weaves, wigs, and other non-surgical solu­tions. The major­ity of the pop­u­la­tion sup­ports the opin­ion that, hair trans­plant surgery is the most attrac­tive option because it was the only per­ma­nent solu­tion, and it looks natural.

It is very impor­tant to know and under­stand your hair grow­ing cycle in order try­ing to stim­u­late rapid hair growth. A hair grow­ing cycle has three stages cycle. These stage or phases are known as tel­o­gen, cata­gen, and anagen.

The first stage is called as the Ana­gen. In this stage your hair grows and healthy at its aver­age rate, and your hair is look like beau­ti­ful and shinny every day. The sec­ond stage called as Cata­gen, it is stage when your hair stops to growth. The last stage called as Tel­o­gen stage, it is time to rebirth of your new hair because it is stage when your hair sheds or falls out.

A lot of time there are sev­eral peo­ple who don’t grow their hair back as fast as they would like or don’t grow their hair back at all are the prob­lem with mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the hair cycle. When a per­son ages, this type of sit­u­a­tion increase spe­cially, but a lot of ways to pro­mote and get the excep­tional healthy hair by assist your hair cycling process.

To pro­mote rapid hair growth, you can take some tips bellow:

a. Take the right vit­a­mins. Vit­a­mins of A, C, E, B com­plex, and biotin in guar­an­ty­ing the growth of your healthy hair are nec­es­sary needed. These vit­a­mins can take of you by get­ting a daily intake of eggs, beans, green veg­eta­bles, fresh or cit­rus fruits, meat and still many more.

b. The imper­a­tive ways in the pro­mo­tion of healthy your hair are remov­ing foods highly sat­u­rated in fat and all fried or junk foods. You must stay away of it, some exam­ple of these foods are friend fries, soda, candy, some of burg­ers and others.

c.  Stop­ping the con­sump­tion of over­ween­ing alco­hols is also good idea as alco­hol can cause dehy­dra­tion and as con­sid­ered drying.

d. Exceed­ingly cru­cial as hair itself is dead pro­tein that comes out of the scalp, so mak­ing a point that you’re acquir­ing your sug­gested quan­tity of pro­tein. It will cause frag­ile, weak, and thin­ning hair if your diet is low in pro­tein. A cou­ple of sources to acquire your pro­tein are beans, leans meats, low fat dairy, and fish.

e. The mas­sag­ing of your head scalp is a good way to stim­u­late your hair growth. To pre­vent dry scalp or a flaky, do this treat­ment with good oil. Not only pro­mote rapid hair growth, by doing these things you also get a healthy body.

There is no sim­ple answer to this. No one treat­ment is spec­tac­u­lar for the aver­age indi­vid­ual. How­ever, there are a few treat­ments that yield decent results for a major­ity of peo­ple. (Decent is defined here as ces­sa­tion of fur­ther hair thin­ning and per­haps some regrowth, rang­ing from a lit­tle to mod­er­ate.) Some peo­ple do respond unusu­ally well–but then some don’t respond at all. Most fall some­where in between.

Since there are mul­ti­ple fac­tors in pat­tern loss for both men and women, it is wis­est to approach the prob­lem from sev­eral angles to max­i­mize results, as some treat­ments are com­ple­men­tary and address dif­fer­ent under­ly­ing causes. A com­mon fun­da­men­tal approach is to use an “antian­dro­gen” of some kind, such as Prope­cia (men only) or Revivo­gen (men and women), and a growth stim­u­lant such as Rogaine Foam or Tri­comin. Other options include ther­a­peu­tic sham­poos, such as Nizo­ral, which is a manda­tory part of every treat­ment reg­i­men. Still other approaches that may help include dietary and nutri­tional con­sid­er­a­tions and even lifestyle mod­i­fi­ca­tions. There are many adher­ents to such a “kitchen sink” approach.

You can also start with a sin­gle treat­ment, though due to the long lag time before you can actu­ally ver­ify effi­cacy, this can be very hit and miss and may bring less than opti­mal results by only address­ing one aspect of a larger problem.

Treat­ments for indi­vid­u­als with Alope­cia Areata (patchy hair loss), Alope­cia Uni­ver­salis and Alope­cia Totalis are lim­ited. Top­i­cal steroid injec­tions are used for less severe Alope­cia Areata, exper­i­ment­ing var­i­ous treat­ment options with a hair loss spe­cial­ist will eventually

The fact is, if you are start­ing to lose your hair then the ear­lier you start to deal with the prob­lem the longer you will be able to keep your hair. Like most other med­ical con­di­tions, if you treat the under­ly­ing prob­lem early it is much eas­ier, and much cheaper, than if you wait till it gets out of hand. As soon as you start to see extra hairs lay­ing on your pil­low in the morn­ing, or a clump in the shower drain, you need to have a plan to buy a hair loss treat­ment and start using it.

Of course, the big ques­tion then is which prod­uct or prod­ucts should you buy. Before you can answer that ques­tion you need to under­stand what is the under­ly­ing cause of your hair loss in the first place. Over 9 out of 10 men who expe­ri­ence early hair loss do so because of a hered­i­tary med­ical con­di­tion called Andro­genic Alope­cia. The com­mon name for this is Male Pat­tern Bald­ness. This name comes from the fact that men will tend to lose their hair in one of two pat­tern areas. Either they see thin­ning on the crown of the head which is the top, or they will have a reced­ing hair line above the fore­head. If left untreated these two areas will migrate toward each other and even­tu­ally combine.

The cause of this thin­ning is what you actu­ally need your hair loss rem­edy to treat. Within your body there are many hor­mones and hor­monal sub­stances. They actu­ally are the mes­sen­gers which keep your sys­tems oper­at­ing prop­erly. One of these, the male hor­mone testos­terone has many func­tions, but for our pur­poses we are inter­ested in what hap­pens when it is metab­o­lized by the enzyme 5-alpha reduc­tase. When this hap­pens a new sub­stance is formed called Dihy­drotestos­terone. This is actu­ally the metabo­lite which is respon­si­ble for male pat­tern bald­ness. Many hair replace­ment prod­ucts focus on the scalp and the health of the hair shaft, because this is eas­ier to do, and they neglect the real cause which is DHT. Any prod­uct you choose must deal with what causes hair loss at the root.

There are two meth­ods of slow­ing or stop­ping the affect of DHT. The first is to block the pro­duc­tion of it. The FDA has approved an oral med­ica­tion, Finas­teride, which seems to work well but it has many neg­a­tive side effects. These include loss of libido, sex drive, in men and poten­tial birth defects for preg­nant women. Because of this many peo­ple shy away from this drug. Two nat­ural alter­na­tives are Saw Pal­metto extract and Stingy Net­tle Root. Both of these also seem to limit the amount of DHT produced.

The sec­ond way of deal­ing with the prob­lem is to pro­tect the hair fol­li­cles, (hair roots) from attack in the first place. Another FDA approved drug, Minox­i­dil, does a good job of this by bond­ing with the recep­tors on the hair roots that the dihy­drotestos­terone would nor­mally bond to. This drug is actu­ally used by both men and women and it is applied to the scalp top­i­cally twice a day.

Start today to deal with your hair loss and be sure you are actu­ally treat­ing the root cause and not just the sur­face issues involved.

Alope­cia Bar­bae is also called bald­ness. This is the exceed­ingly rec­og­nized ail­ment encoun­tered by many today. The vic­tims of this dis­or­der belong to both gen­ders. How­ever, research reveals that the causative agents of Alope­cia Bar­bae are respon­si­ble for the appar­ently dif­fer­ent effects too in men and women.

Bald­ness is wide­spread across the globe, vic­tim­iz­ing 50% of males and a sim­i­lar per­cent­age of females above the age of 40 years. How­ever, in this group of females, 13% of pre­menopausal patients express only slight signs of the dis­ease. Nonethe­less, the chances of falling prey to Alope­cia Bar­bae increases after menopause that 75% women over the age of 65 years of age get affected by this prob­lem. Before reach­ing the age of 40 years, the suf­fer­ers bear signs of Alope­cia Bar­bae, and some depict this even before they turn 30. 

Alope­cia is a psy­cho­log­i­cal tor­ment for the suf­fer­ers. Hair loss allows the head to be exposed to the UV rays, giv­ing rise in actinic inflic­tion. Car­diac ail­ments could be accel­er­ated by Alope­cia in males, and increase in mild pro­sta­tic hyper­tro­phy could be asso­ci­ated with this prob­lem too. If the ongo­ing research stud­ies evi­dence that the above rela­tions are valid, then the clin­i­cal impli­ca­tions with Alope­cia would increase too.

White males are the most affected by bald­ness in terms of fre­quency and sever­ity while the sec­ond most affected are Asians and African Amer­i­cans. The least affected are Native Amer­i­cans and Eskimos.

Onset of the Ailment

Alope­cia Bar­bae begins slowly. In men, it starts with hair loss in the tem­po­ral region which reshapes the pos­te­rior hair­line. Then, it devel­ops with the usual ante­rior and apex hair loss. While in case of women, it begins with scat­tered hair loss in the crown. The tem­po­ral hair loss is sim­i­lar to men, but gen­er­ally, females retain their ante­rior hairline.

Phys­i­cal Changes

The suf­fer­ers of both gen­ders expe­ri­ence the tran­si­tion from healthy, pig­mented ter­mi­nal hair to weak, short and scat­tered hair. The end result is stunted, flimsy, non-pigmented hair in the affected areas. With time, the ana­gen step decreases while the tel­o­gen part is unaf­fected. It gives rise to the hair fall among the vic­tims. Though it pro­vides a gen­er­al­ized pic­ture, the dif­fer­ences in the devel­op­ment of ail­ment always per­sist among dif­fer­ent indi­vid­u­als. In case of females, usu­ally, the patch of hair loss can­not be spec­i­fied. Gen­er­ally they lose hair in all areas over the crown. The core dif­fer­ence is that the ante­rior hair­line is safe in case of females while that is lost right at the onset of the prob­lem in case of males.

Alope­cia means hair loss and hair loss is some­thing many Amer­i­cans are suf­fer­ing from. It is impor­tant to know what your treat­ment options are.

The word alope­cia means “hair loss”. It does not refer to any spe­cific hair dis­eases. There are two types of Alope­cia, per­ma­nent and non– per­ma­nent. Per­ma­nent alope­cia is irre­versible; the hair loss is asso­ci­ated with the destruc­tion of the hair fol­li­cle. Non per­ma­nent alope­cia is reversible; the hair has a chance for regrowth. Scar­ring alope­cia an exam­ple of per­ma­nent alope­cia and is not reversible there is no treat­ment for this dis­ease. Treat­able types of alope­cia are tel­o­gen efflu­vium, ana­gen efflu­vium and alope­cia areata. The treat­ment for tel­o­gen efflu­vium depends on the cause, in some cases a major surgery may cause this type of alope­cia to occur. The med­ica­tion Minox­i­dil can be used to treat this type of alope­cia. It is a direct hair growth stim­u­la­tor; it pro­motes the tel­o­gen hair fol­li­cles to fol­low their nor­mal cycli­cal growth by induc­ing the ana­gen growth phase. There are a range of treat­ments for alope­cia areata but it may not be effec­tive for every­one. The most com­mon treat­ment for this dis­ease involves the use of cor­ti­cos­teroids, hair restora­tion is very com­mon as well for cor­rect­ing this form of alopecia.

Men and women who lose their hair, are either expe­ri­enc­ing hair thin­ning, com­plete bald­ing, or in most cases suf­fer­ing from a genetic con­di­tion known as andro­ge­netic alope­cia. This is pre­pon­der­ance for los­ing one’s hair on cer­tain areas of the scalp that is passed from one gen­er­a­tion to the next. It used to be believed that the bald­ing prob­lem was only passed down through the mother’s genes but that is no longer true. Now we know that this form of hair loss, or alope­cia, is not deter­mined by one par­ent or the other.

Andro­ge­netic alope­cia, also known as pat­tern bald­ness or pat­tern hair loss, is caused by a sit­u­a­tion that actu­ally stops the hair fol­li­cles from pro­duc­ing hair shaft mate­r­ial. The fol­li­cle can be thought of as the hair fac­to­ries in one’s body. The fol­li­cle is con­nected to the blood sup­ply which pro­vides it with oxy­gen and nutri­ents which are essen­tial for the man­u­fac­tur­ing of hair. When pat­tern bald­ness is active a hor­monal metabo­lite known as DHT is pro­duced in the body and even­tu­ally makes its way to hair fol­li­cle. The DHT bonds to the hair fol­li­cles and causes a dis­rup­tion in the pro­duc­tion of hair mate­r­ial. Nor­mally a hair fol­li­cle will pro­duce hair in a cycli­cal man­ner. It goes through growth and rest stages that can last sev­eral months. The DHT short­ens the growth phase of the fol­li­cle to the point that it can no longer pro­duce a healthy hair shaft and the shaft falls out. If not treated quickly, the pat­tern bald­ness will ren­der the fol­li­cle com­pletely ineffective.

The best hair restora­tion sys­tem involves deal­ing with the affect of DHT and also trans­plant­ing new hair fol­li­cles into the balded area. There are two hair loss treat­ment drugs that have been approved by the US FDA and have proved effec­tive at slow­ing down the loss of hair but they will not do much to re-energize the fol­li­cles that have stopped pro­duc­ing so these hair fol­li­cles must be replaced. Of the two drugs only one, Minox­i­dil, is approved for both men and females. This is a top­i­cal solu­tion that is applied to the scalp and helps to allow the hair fol­li­cles to con­tinue to pro­duce as needed. The sec­ond drug, Finas­teride, is only pre­scribed for men as it can cause birth defects. This drug actu­ally works to limit the amount of DHT that is pro­duced in the body. Hair restora­tion doc­tors will usu­ally use one or both of these drugs to keep what hair there is still grow­ing along with hair implan­ta­tion to pro­vide replace­ment hair fol­li­cles for the bald­ing that has already occurred.

The part of the sys­tem that causes the high­est hair restora­tion costs is the implan­ta­tions. Thus if a per­son can start the treat­ments early to save what hair they still have the hair restora­tion price will be much lower. As is usu­ally the case, the sooner a prob­lem is addressed the cheaper it is to deal with.  Apply­ing the cor­rect hair replace­ment sys­tems can get you the head of hair you deserve. Start today to deter­mine your path to a full head of hair.