How Fine Hair is Different
Everybody’s hair is different. It’s really the combination of chemical and physical properties of, and environmental influences on your hair that make it unique, no matter what your heritage or what you do to your hair. Most of us have a mix of hairs on our heads – different diameters, different textures, some variation in color from follicle to follicle. But if you can get over aesthetics - hair color and the visual stuff, there’s some fun physics/engineering in there. I have mostly fine hair and those of us who do know it is not the same to work with as hair which is not fine, so I dug in to try to point out the obvious. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 String cheese separates into sections - a visual aid for hair diameter. Fine hair has a smaller diameter than average (somewhere between less than 50-70 microns in diameter, depending on the source you consult – I feel it’s closer to the lower end). This doesn’t tell us much unless you’re accustomed to measuring things in microns (micrometer...