The other day I received an email from someone saying that they had noticed a lot of hair thinning in the bangs area, so much so that you could see the white of their scalp where the bangs met the top of the head. She asked me what could she be causing this and what she should do about it. I tell you what I told him in the following article.
Things that can make your hair thin on the forehead: The first thing I asked her was if she had noticed any increase in the amount of hair she had been losing or losing. Since bangs are usually thinner to begin with, this may be one of the first places you notice thinning or falling out. And, Telogen Effluvium (TE) is a condition that occurs due to changes in your body. In women, common culprits are changing hormones, stress, pregnancy, childbirth, coming off birth control pills, thyroid problems, and more. It usually takes a couple of months between the stress or change in your body until you start to notice more hair coming out. Like I said, the bangs are one place where you’ll start to see thinning first, since this area has less hair to begin with. If you have this condition, you’ll often know it because you’ll lose hair all over, not just in the front. And you will see more clothes on the floor, on your clothes and on your brush.
Genetic thinning of hair in the front: Genetic thinning in men will often manifest at the temples when it comes to the front of the scalp. However, women often notice thinning in the bangs area. This is also due to hormones, but often it is not a lack of hormones or even an excess of hormones. It is a sensitivity to the normal presence of hormones that increases as we age. It doesn’t happen to everyone. Generally speaking, you will have a genetic tendency toward this sensitivity, and the front of the scalp (as well as the crown, temples, and hairline) are particularly susceptible to it.
What you can do about thinking ahead: First, you need to identify why this is happening. If this is run-of-the-mill TE, usually what you have to give is just time in cases like childbirth or stress. However, if this is due to a medical or other condition that you can treat and improve, then you should certainly do so. This is important because this condition may not get better if you don’t treat it or if you don’t treat the correct cause.
If it is a genetic problem that we are talking about, then you will have to work on reducing your sensitivity to androgens, which are the cornerstone of this problem. Many people will try to remove its presence from the scalp, but this is really impossible. Your scalp will continue to produce them and as long as the sensitivity is there, you will still have the problem. It’s much better to work on both reducing them (if your levels are too high to be healthy) and reducing sensitivity.
Also, you’ll want to take a look and then reduce any inflammation. Often the inflammatory process is present in both ET and androgen-driven wasting. There are many natural substances that work well for this. (Tea tree oil, emu oil, lavender, etc.) Finally, you’ll want to really focus on stimulating your scalp to reproduce healthy hair in that area. Once the androgens are being dealt with, you need to take advantage of this window of opportunity to stimulate the follicles because the longer they do not produce proper growth, the more difficult it is to turn this process back on.
Meanwhile, there are powders that can cover the white of your scalp such as topik and cover. They help. And you can try growing your bangs out so that the area where your scalp meets your bangs is less noticeable. But, these things will only get you so far. Eventually you will need to take the next step and figure out what is causing this and fix it.