You are using so many hair care products but nothing suit with your hair or hair strand. That’s why you are concerned, isn’t it? Let’s check out the hair stand overview.
Okay, now let me answer the following questions.
- You know enough about your hair type and hair strand?
- Do you have any idea about your hair structure?
- What do you know how hair care products are made?
If you know the answer to these questions, then I’m sure that you are very much conscious of your hair and its care. But if you don’t know the answer, then this post is definitely for you.
Actually, if you don’t have full ideas about the hair strand, hair structure, and hair type then you will have to face some challenges while caring and choosing the right hair care products for your hair. To understand your hair structure and hair type properly, first you need to know about the hair strand.
Generally, the topic hair strand seems to very difficult for many of us. But the topic is not very difficult what we usually think. It’s so simple. So let’s know detail about the strand of hair.
Definition of a strand:
One thing I want to remember you before detailing about a hair strand, if you know the meaning of the word ‘Strand’, then it will not be difficult for you to understand about the hair strand.
Simply, you can imagine a strand with a single hair, a noodle, and even a thought line. But in short, a strand is something with a long and a thin length.
That means the strand describes the length of an object, which is long and thin and looks like a hair, a thread and an Italian food like spaghetti.
What is the hair strand?
Already you have got a little bit idea of the hair strand from the above.
But if I describe it according to the language of zoology, then I would like to say that the hair strand is something like a thread. Naturally, it sprouts from a hair follicle and deeply embeds in the dermis.
Note:
- The dermis is one kind of protective inner layer of our skin and deeply associated with another layer such as epidermis.
- The hair follicle is a point where our hair grows.
Finally, it’s clear to you that a strand of hair is the length of a complete hair. So simply we can say, a single strand of hair is the complete length of our hair.
Construction of a strand of hair:
In this section, we will know about the construction of the hair strand. Generally, every single strand of hair consists of with two main components such as a hair root and a hair shaft.
Hair root: Hair root is positioned below the skin of our scalp that means within the layer of our skin like dermis and epidermis. It’s the main basement of a single strand of hair and help in our hair growth. Basically, a tube-like structure hair follicle, contains the hair root (though it embeds in the hair follicle).
Hair shaft: Actually what we have seen above our scalp is the hair shaft and it’s one of the most important parts of a single strand of hair. It’s made up of three components such as cuticle, cortex, and medulla.
Cuticle: It’s a kind of thinner protective exterior of a hair shaft. It contains the nutritious element for the hair strand and also helps in our hair growth. The main role of it is to give an extra protection of our hair’s internal layers. It is also known as a style layer because it determines our hair’s style and sheen. So without a healthy cuticle layer, you can’t expect long, silky and beautiful healthy hair strands.
Cortex: Cortex is the most important part of a strand of hair and also a middle layer, which contains a long keratin chain and cells to add elasticity in our hair and make our hair more protective and flexible. That is why it’s considered the basement of our hair’s color, structure, strength, and stability.
Medulla: Medulla is the most inner layer of the hair strand. Basically, it contains round type cells. The presence and existence of a medulla is different in person to person and it also depends on the type of our hair. That means in our scalp some of the hair can either contain a complete medulla or some can contain a fragmented medulla. Also, the possibility is some can’t either contain any type of medulla or some can contain both complete and fragmented medulla in the same scalp.
In the end, I hope this post will make you more concise about the hair strand. So you will easily understand your hair structure and also you will able to determine your hair types. Besides, it will reveal you about the cause and facts of your hair problem.
So you will not face any kind of challenges while choosing the right products for your hair. So in the 21st century, it’s very easy to care for your hair and style it whatever you want.
