Summer Hair

Shiny locks are the sizzling season’s sexy, so keep them glowing in good health.

My hair has always been a victim of ennui. I’ve cut, curled, colored, fried, greased, and mussed it up with so much goop and glob as if it were an exotic gourmet dish that had once (or more than once), torn my kitchen apart. Not too bad, considering that the hair is dead to begin with. Yes, the six-figure strands that you toss, twirl and incarcerate with bands and barrettes are in fact, lifeless protein fibers.

But deceased as they come, tresses do spring up like weeds from beneath the scalp, where its living factory, comprised of feisty follicles, assiduously produces a garden of fine filaments we all love to rake.

So, before you pick another clip, comb, cream or some hair candy, keep this info deep-rooted: healthy hair depends on what you ingest, substances you apply and the inevitable hormonal changes.

Everything you do to your hair should be done in moderation — shampooing, brushing, hair treatments, even crash diets, which subtract the amount of protein in your body, and you can cause hair loss. One must not take hair for granted. Pick on something else when you’re bored.

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