Beauty is an important asset to women in our modern society. Outer female beauty plays an important role in interpersonal relationship, marriage and social activities. Disproportionate views and treatment to beautiful women can be seen easily in daily lives. This is the reason which causes women to spend large amount of money willingly to go under the knife, enhancing their physical appearance. Hair, the crowning glory of women defines the most significant element of female beauty. Bad hair days never fail to turn women into the doldrums and statistics show that women spend most of their time on mirrors adjusting and styling their hair. As a result, female pattern balding is a fear to many women causing them to panic at the sight of even a few strands of hair on their comb after styling. However, these fears are not unfounded as female pattern balding is affecting a lot of the female counterparts nowadays. Female pattern balding is caused by several factors such as grooming, emotional stress, pregnancy and genetic reasons.
Understanding the hair growth cycle is instrumental in identifying the causes of balding. Hair exists in three phases known as anagen, catagen and telogen phases. Under the anagen phase, hair follicles are in active growing phase which last between 2-6 years. During this phase, the cells at the root of the hair are dividing rapidly, lengthening the hair shaft. The hair will grow about half an inch every month. At the end of the anagen phase, the hair will enter the catagen phase which lasts for two weeks. During catagen phase, the hair will gradually be cut off from blood supply before entering the telogen phase. During the telogen phase, which is also called the resting phase, the hair follicles are at rest. This phase lasts for about 90 days and telogen hairs are shed at a normal rate of 25-100 strands each day with new hair beginning to replace them. At any point of time, 85% of the hair is in the anagen phase while the rest are in telogen or catagen phase.
Factors such as grooming, emotional stress, pregnancy and genetic reasons can disrupt the hair growth cycle causing female pattern balding. Consistent grooming and styling can cause hair breakage, dandruffs and oily hair. Oily hair blocks the hair follicle and disrupts the hair growth cycle. Emotional stress, usually associated to an individual undergoing a traumatic experience, can cause more hair to enter the telogen phase. However, this type of baldness is temporarily and usually the hair will start to grow back. Hormonal changes during pregnancy also contribute to hair loss. It is normal for women to lose their hair during or after pregnancy and after the hormonal levels return to normal, the hair will start growing back. Finally, Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) which is produced from our body shortens and degrades the hair follicle. Due to genetic reasons, hair with more androgen receptors where DHT are attached to is more likely to be affected.
In conclusion, female pattern balding is the greatest fear to women when looks are important in today’s society. Although there is no specific cure to female pattern balding, there are medications and hair solutions that are able to minimize or counter the effects. Alternatives range from cheaper Minodixil scalp spray to more expensive hair transplant. While a lot has been discussed and emphasized on the outer beauty, the inner beauty of women should not be neglected. Confidence and good character are the most important components of women’s beauty.
I think you're using some kind of reverse psychology to go after women and their complexes about female models and how thin they are. It is whiney if men were to do it, so why is it not if women do it. Good job. you're right, life aint fair.
judging from what you wrote it seems that you get bad experiences with guys. Hun just relax you just haven't found the right one yet that appreciate, complement, and to love you. I'm sure he's out their but he has not found you yet. Some guys are real jerks and only feels better when they put other s down for them to cope with their own personal rejection. I hope that your future lies greatness !! Good Luck:)
bald beauty I could just get a wig
Thank you.
Wonderful.
Michael Jackson esta en 1:45
this was wonderful !!
I'm a black man that watches a fare amount of television, I listens to a lot of music and reads a lot of magazines. I agree that women with darker skin have been shunned by the media. I didn't know that it was such an issue until I saw the documentary 'Souls Of Black Girls' featuring Jada Pinkett Smith and Regina King. When I heard about the struggle for sisters of darker skin to look pretty and to gain attention it put me deep in thought. I started thinking about what I as a black man consider to be beautuful about sistas.
To me it would seem that as a culture with respect to our relationships between black men and women that we both suffer from image dissorders promoted and profitted by the media. Young black girls feel that they have to make their skin more white and their hair more straight and long. They spend tons of money on fake hair, nails and eyes that they weren't born with just to gain attention that they mistake for love. Likewise young black men believe that the only way to be happy, never be alone and get and keep a sista is to treat her like an object or a product that can be bought, sold or traded without emotion.
Little black boys are learning from older kids in the neighborhoods that they have to wear tons of jewlery, show off their boxer shorts by wearing their pants under their behinds, get tatted up beyond recognition and drive flashy cars, they can't even afford just to attract a female. As men we want to be seen as powerful, as rich, as successful so we over compensate and unfortunately it rubs off on our young black females. This has become the "what are you gonna give me generation," but nothing is more seductive than sex! sex sells and it sells a lot because men want it a lot, however women control the keys to the bedroom.
If young ladies are conforming to stereotypes and giving their bodies to the hype then that is fuel to the fire. Your fears of not being loved by others have overcome your value of 'self love.' You believe that if u dont give into the status quo you wont be loved but the truth is that if u put your foot down and be yourself without yeilding or bending or conforming in time people (black men) will have no choice but to look beyond the physical and actually see you for how beautiful you really are. I used to treat women like object once when I was younger. I never had a father around to teach me otherwise and I learned from the older guys in the neighborhood how to pull a sista. The sad part is I was always hungry for more; I'd hook up with a girl based on how she looked and what she did for me physically but at the end of the day once I got what I wanted I was bored, I was finished and left empty.
One day I ran into this sista who was different from what I normally was used to. She was dressed more conservatively than other females, she wore makeup litely but it was in a fashion that it fit her face unlike other females who over exaggerated with the eye shadow and the liners. She was her own woman but all I could see was that she was cute so I threw my best game at her and she rejected me. I walked away feeling kinda hungry because I wanted her and I didn't have her so I tried again and again. Everytime we met I threw a sexual advance at her and she would burn me for it. Finally one day with no games involved I approached her and asked her straight up why she didn't like me and she explained to me that she didn't like the way I came at her or how I was treating her.
I was amazed because treating women like objects was all I ever knew and it usually worked but she was different, so I asked her how she wanted to be treated and she told me. From then on I acknowledged her respectfully everytime she came in the room and I found myself trying to get into conversations with her and finally one day she agreed to go out with me. To make a long story short we talked and hung out and I began to get to know her in a way I never knew any woman or anybody before, she really taught me things and opened my eyes to stuff and she changed me as a man for the better. We aren't together anymore but she was the first true black female I had experienced and before her I didn't know that women (black women) had so many more levels of beauty than the surface.
I guess before the media can see the beauty in this we have to start seeing it individually in our relationships with eachother collectively. Without it being collective marketing firms and the media wont be able to see a profit.
For 23 you sound very jaded about life – may be a little stressed – which could be the cause of your hair loss at such a young age. CALM DOWN! Why is it important to you about who gets hair transplants? Some men are just more confident with themselves and understand that hair doesn't make the man. When you grow up a little, you'll understand that.
what 0:40 ??
I think that's probably true for movies, but in reality, out on the streets, I usually both. The very attractive man with an average (but seemingly nice) looking girl. And I see "hot and sexy" girls with both average and hot guys.
I think the women who have (or think they have) flaws usually end up with the guys who have flaws. Oftentimes, people are attracted to their own "beauty level".
I wonder who did this, must have full sense of art to create this, bravo million times!
It's not necessarily unattractive.
The absence of hair would bring out the facial features even more.
I've seen pics of some very attractive bald women, and I've seen pics of some very unattractive bald women.
If she has beautiful, delicate, feminine features with good skin tone, a perfectly shaped head (no bumps), and small, non-protruding ears and nose, she could easily pull it off.
However, she rolls the dice if she does not have the features.
just beautiful !
You were indeed "trapped" by that mother's question; what lout would tell a mother their baby *isn't* beautiful? I've seen very few babies who couldn't fit into that category, especially in the eyes of the child's mother…
The concept of "beauty" lies somewhere in the pleasure/emotional centers of the the human brain… it is more to do with the viewer than the viewed…
bellissimo!
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Me gustaría añadir a esta obra,el retrato de mi madre.En reconocimiento por todo lo que hacen las madres por nosotros,dedico este trabajo maravilloso a todas aquellas mujeres que nos dieron la vida,las madres y aquellas muchas que no pudieron darla pero derrochan amor y ternura..
wow; so many beautiful paintings