Get Ready to Garden
In the spring or early summer of the year, we love seeing our crocuses or other perennial flowers blossom. What a refreshing reminder that winter has passed! That very sign also reminds many of us to get started on our annual gardens. Some of us tend a beloved vegetable garden or a beautiful flower garden. Then, there are those of us that are very happy with just a couple of new container plants decorating our front lawn. We love the idea of having something pretty to look at, but for whatever the reason, we don’t want to take the time to grow it from “scratch”. We might reason that, “Hey, if it dies, I’ll just buy another one!”
Perennial, Annual or Container?
In many ways, our hair is like the kind of plant we prefer to grow. For the majority of us, we have a luscious ‘perennial garden’ atop our head –just ‘fertilize’ regularly and grow. For others, like our ‘annual plantings’, our hair tends to need more care in order to ‘blossom’ and grow to its full potential. If we stop the care, we can lose our hair. On the other hand, for various reasons, some of us feel forced to buy a wig or hair extensions - a “container garden” – to adorn our face. For the moment, it’s pretty to look at, and when it goes ‘bad’, we simply buy another one. It is these two latter types of ‘gardens’ that is the focus of this series of articles.
Why Won’t My Garden Grow?
Our hair needs care to flourish and grow to its full potential. It’s not enough to ‘water’ it on occasion with any ole’ shampoo and conditioner and settle for whatever sprouts. It needs nourishment on a regular basis. What if though, we have made tremendous efforts to care for and grow our hair, yet sadly we still experience problems with hair loss or hair fall? Like an unhealthy plant that ‘sickens’ and fails to grow after receiving tremendous care, the problem could be a medical issue.
Let’s face it, some gardens might take a little effort to yield great results and others need an even greater effort to flourish. However, there are those that might have highly acidic soil or not received enough sunlight or sadly succumb to disease and require a much longer time to grow -anything– even with a huge effort on our part. Some won’t grow at all.
Conditions Beyond Our Control
Is your hair thinning due to male pattern baldness? Do you have an ongoing medical treatment known to cause hazardous effects on the hair? Even aging itself can cause your hair to become thinner, since the follicle is in a much longer resting phase, instead of the growing phase. There are several other conditions that are beyond our control and these sadly affect our (lack of) hair growth. It’s best to visit and work with your physician for optimal care if you suffer hair loss due to a medical or aging issue.
The next part of this series will discuss conditions that are within our control and what we can do about them.
Author: L.J. O'Neal, writer and researcher. (L.J. is also a Lustrous Henna® user.)
©2011. L.J. O’Neal. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Do not copy or reprint this article without the consent of the author.
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