Do you think you have a bald spot? I have good news for you!

I can’t tell you how many first-time clients ask me if they have a bald spot in the crown area or on the top of their head. It seems that 99% of the time they do not.

• Do you color your hair? If so, what is your natural color and what color are you coloring it? If your hair is 50% gray or more and your processed color is darker, you are are in good company and, most likely, you DO NOT have a bald spot.
  Try this: in a well lit room, hold a hand mirror in a way that you can see the top and back of your head reflected in another mirror. Get a magnifying mirror if necessary. If you can’t see clearly, ask the help of a trusted friend. You may find out that the extreme line of demarcation from your natural gray to the darker pigment of the color, coupled with your scalp color blend and trick the eye, giving the appearance of incipient baldness, especially from a distance.
• If you do not color your hair and your natural color is dark blonde to dark brown-black, you might notice that the color gap between your scalp and your hair gives the unpleasant appearance of baldness.
• Some people have pink to bright pink-colored scalps and, once again, the contrast tricks the eye unpleasantly.
  

Are you the kind of person who would rather"'brave the box" than pay anything for a botched professional job? If so, you are among the brave that I call kitchen beauticians. I totally understand you.

• If you are going darker than your natural color, usually there's no need for a developer or peroxide as strong as the ones they ship in the box.
  I suggest some color-treating hair tricks for coloring fine hair, such as diluting the amount of developer or peroxide with water. The reason for this is that the developer lifts the hair to make it soft so that the color will grab better.
  Believe it or not, your gray will cover better with less and your hair color will last longer without fading. Try it a little at a time until you optimize the dilution of the color specifically for you hair. It usually takes either half the time or half the dose of developer advertised to process the color properly and, in addition, the less developer or peroxide you use, the more you keep elasticity in your hair. Elasticity is the keyword here. Every time that you use a product containing a developer or peroxide, your hair loses a little elasticity. If you have been coloring your hair for a while your roots will look shiny while the ends look dry and lifeless allowing very little shine or curl if permed. This most likely means that your hair has lost its elasticity. The smaller the diameter of the hair shaft, the easier it is to lose that precious elasticity.
  
  
• Human hair has a cuticle layer on the outside that can be seen through a magnifying glass. It resembles a shingle on a roof. The more the cuticle gets damaged or lifted from the hair, the more the "shingle" widens and the wider it gets, the more your hair loses elasticity. In addition, the open cuticle causes loss of shine.
  Shine comes from refraction of light and light cannot be refracted from open shingles.
  
  
• You have all heard this before and I confirm that it works.
  Do your roots or re-growth first!
  This is especially true if you are using a colorized shampoo or a permanent color, but is advisable to follow the same technique even when using a “semi-permanent” coloring product. Often, product labels and instructions are confusing to the lay person. As a general rule, if you are going to do some “touch up” after doing your own coloring, be careful not to put the color all all the way down your hair shaft. Doing so would build up color residues and will cause loss of elasticity to your hair.
  I know that it is more difficult, but fine hair cannot afford to lose its elasticity and, in addition, dark ends with a lighter re-growth on the scalp look terrible.