The Healthy Hair Trinity – Genetics

Hello ladies,

Happy new year!!!I hope you are happy and thriving wherever you are.

Hairducation is focused mainly on hair care, however hair care is just one of the aspects that is important to have a healthy head of hair.  I’ve come to realise that so many ladies believe that hair care alone matters when on a hair journey and although hair care is ESSENTIAL, there are other factors which will determine the state of your hair besides your hair care practices.

Over the first few posts of 2019, I would like to give Hairducation readers a fuller picture of healthy hair.
If you follow Hairducation on Instagram you may have seen one of my IG stories last year  in which I shared that healthy and long hair is determined by three main factors: Genetics, Internal factors and external factors.  I like to call these The Healthy Hair Trinity.
I wrote a post a short while ago about these three factors which you can read by clicking on this link.  I think it makes a good introduction into The Healthy Hair Trinity series.

In today’s post, I will put up a reminder of which characteristics of our hair is determined by genetics.  The main focus of this series however is on internal factors and external factors and how these factors can either support or hinder your hairs genetic potential.

 

GENETICS & YOUR HAIR

The vast majority of the physical characteristics of our hair is determined by our genetic make up
Some of these characteristics includes

• The colour of our hair
• The texture and thickness of our hair strands
• Density (number of strands)
• How long our hair can grow and the speed of our hair growth                                                                                 

I once had a client who decided to transition to natural hair.  When she told me she had decided to transition, she sent me pictures of the type of hair she wanted to grow.  Predictably it was the Tracee Ellis Ross-esque curly kind of hair.  I had to burst that bubble and explain that her natural hair type would be determined by mother nature.

Focusing too much on another person’s hair may prevent you from embracing the qualities and beauty of yours.  Altering our genes is not really an option so accepting your hair type (either in its virgin or relaxed state) is very important.
What I find fascinating is that many ladies may never know what their hair’s true genetic characteristics are. This is because of the variety of internal and external factors that are preventing them from realising it potential.

So by now I’am sure you’re wondering what these internal and external factors are!!!!!
My next post will focus on internal factors, the significant impact they have on the “reality” of our hair and what control we have over these factors.  It will be a good read if I dare say so myself.

 

See you soon

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Lade