Posted by Admin, on August 10th, 2010, under ALOPECIA AREATA, CELEBRITY HAIR LOSS
By Jody Thompson
Gail Porter looks as if she’s finally beaten alopecia for good as she shakes her full head of blonde hair on GMTV this morning.
The presenter, 39, had regained 75% of her lost locks in March this year, but the regrowth was still rather patchy.
But sat on the famous red sofa as a guest TV critic this morning, it seems her follicular fears are at last behind her.
Blonde ambition: Gail Porter grins with delight as she shows off her full head of hair to the nation
One to watch: Gail was chatting GMTV presenters Andrew Castle and Emma Crosby about the best of the coming day’s TV
Since her hair first started to grow back following five years of complete baldness, the Scottish beauty has experimented with a variety of styles and colours, including electric blue in February and a pink dye job at the Baftas in June.
But talking to Andrew Castle and Emma Crosby, it seems she has finally settled on a seriously chic bleached blonde gamine crop.
Gail, 39, was also out with her toyboy indie rocker boyfriend Johnny Davies, 25, and her little girl Honey, eight, for the London premiere of kids’ movie Cats And Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Glamore last night.
Check her out: The Scottish beauty wore a trendy plaid shirt for her breakfast TV stint to complement her choppy cropped hair
She’s been with the guitairist from band New Vinyl for a year after splitting with former cameraman boyfriend James Lloyd in May last year.
Gail first fell victim to alopecia areata in 2005, causing her to lose all her hair, eyebrows and even eyelashes.
However, the former childrens’ TV presenter refused to wear a hat or wig, deciding instead to raise awareness of the condition.
She became also became an ambassador for the Little Princess Trust, a charity which provides wigs to children with hairloss.
It’s thought the illness was brought on by the stress of her marriage to Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave breaking down, coupled with post-natal depression, problems with drugs and an attempted suicide.
Loved-up: Gail with boyfriend Johnny at the premiere of Cats And Dogs in Holland Park
Hair we go: The TV presenter with her pretty daughter Honey and a canine chum at the Cats And Dogs premiere
Little tufts of fluffy hair started making a re-appearance in 2006, but Gail credits finding love again with boyfriend Johnny for causing it to grow back properly this year.
But amazingly, despite a life-time of being blonde, the hair began to grow back brunette, hence Miss Porter hitting the peroxide.
Gail has hosted programmes including Dead Famous, The Big Breakfast and The Gadget Show, but became a household name in 1999 when her shapely naked rear image was projected onto the Houses Of Parliament in a publicity stunt organised by FHM magazine.
Most recently, she’s been a regular on Matthew Wright’s The Wright Stuff on Five – before today’s guest slot on GMTV, which, much like her hair, was short and sweet.
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Posted by Gary Heron, on August 9th, 2010, under MALE HAIR LOSS
YUL BRYNNER, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Jason Statham, David Beckham, Rovilson Fernandez, Mark Salling (of Glee fame) and yes, even the fictional Les Grossman (a.k.a. the knuckle-ringed alter ego of Tom Cruise) have proven Delilah wrong; a buzz cut — heck, an all-the-way bald do — won’t unman a dude with attitude.
In case you missed the headline — bald is bad, bald is sexy, bald is rugged hot — losing all that hair actually means you’ve got a high MQ (manliness quotient).
“Most male pattern baldness is caused by DHT (dihydrotestosterone) which is a bypro-duct of an overabundance of testosterone. So if they want to look on the bright side, it is a sign that they are truly real men. This chemical actually chokes off the blood supply to the hair follicle, which is the main nourishment for hair growth, and in turn eventually kills the hair follicle,” Sujiivana Salon Creative Director Kne Palmer wrote BusinessWorld.
Let’s rephrase that: if you’re prematurely balding, your guy hormones have killed off all your hair.
Or, allowed Mr. Palmer, it could also be because you’ve somehow damaged the hair follicle by some mechanical means (wore that baseball cap too often, took to cornrows because maybe you grew up watching Wesley Snipes or Dennis Rodman, or back in the days of grunge, you grew your hair long and wore it in a tight ponytail; in which case, this could be remedied by getting rid of all those bad habits). Women, in this instance, can also suffer hair loss. “The constant tension put stress on the follicle and damages the follicle,” cautioned Mr. Palmer.
The last type of hair loss is alopecia, which can have many different causes (one of which is an abnormality in the immune system), and is very hard to remedy. This type starts to show up with patches of bald areas around the head, and while stress and diet can affect this type of hair loss, a doctor is better equipped to handle the case.
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Posted by Gary Heron, on August 9th, 2010, under HAIR LOSS HEALTH NEWS
It’s supposed to be a mark of distinction, but going gray appears a big worry for men in Britain today.
Hair color is the No1 appearance concern, with more than half of men worrying about graying hair, according to a poll by market research firm Mintel. Forty-five is the age when panic bites.
“Although gray hair is traditionally seen as a mark of distinction in men, the reality is many are unhappy with their newfound gravitas,” said Mintel boss of beauty research Vivienne Rudd.
“The physical changes associated with aging can act as a catalyst to mid- life crisis, and our research discovered that men become less content with their appearance after the age of 45.”
Hair loss or thinning is the second most common concern, worrying 40 percent of respondents in the survey of 2,000 men.
Unwanted hair (in the nose and ears) bothers 38 percent of them, being overweight 37 percent, and yellowing teeth 30 percent.
Men generally appear to be more accepting than women when it comes to appearance, but at 45 they are increasingly less happy with their looks.
More than a quarter of men aged 45-54 dislike four aspects of their appearance compared to an average of just over one in 10 men overall.
As with all men, hair is the biggest concern for those aged over 45, with more than half of those in the 45-54 group fretting about loss. Graying hair worries 75 percent of men in this group, though fading or thinning hair isn’t the only concern: close to half of them worry about nose or ear hair.
Rudd also notes that working later into life as the population ages brings older men into competition with younger colleagues. “As a result, older people may feel the need to try to maintain appearance and therefore bring a future boost to the male grooming market.”
Despite the high level of concern that many men display about their appearance, as many as 45 percent do not bother with personal-care products, and this rises to over half of those aged between 45 and 54. Just over a third of men use as few such products as possible, and 31 percent have hardly any interest in them.
Older men are far more likely than younger men to regard beauty and care products “as being completely unnecessary and are also less content with the product results,” Rudd said. “The cynicism extends not only to claims that beauty products make but also to a reluctance to try beauty services.” REUTERS
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Posted by Gary Heron, on August 9th, 2010, under HAIR LOSS FACTS, TRICHOLOGIST
Millions of men are still suffering the after effects of the recession – in the form of hair loss, it has been revealed.
The turmoil and anxiety of the biggest economic slowdown in modern history has left a large percentage of the male population with less hair than they had three years ago.
The phenomenon emerged in the wake of pictures showing premier David Cameron with a newly-developed barren patch on his crown less than three months after he secured power.
And now it’s claimed there’s been an 89 percent jump in the number of men seeking treatment for hair loss in the UK since the start of the recession.
So what do you think of the financially-challenged also being follicly-challenged. Is it hair-larious… or just a load of old bald-erdash?
Hair loss is caused by stress which can cause strands to fall out three times more quickly than usual, causing pigment cells to wear out more rapidly.
Experts believe the stress of modern life is on average turning us grey five years earlier than previous generations.
A spokesman for LA Science, which commissioned the study, said: “There are two types of stress which cause our men to lose their hair.
“The more common type is called telogen effluvium. With this less severe type of hair loss, the hair stops growing and lies dormant, the other type of stress-induced hair loss is known as alopecia areata, and involves a white blood cell attack on the hair follicles
“With this type of hair loss, the hair also falls out within weeks usually, but can involve the entire scalp and even body hair.”
“Stress is a common cause of men losing their hair. A combination of the stressful recession and professionals fiercely fighting for their careers has most definitely contributed to the sudden boom in premature balding.”
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Posted by Gary Heron, on July 29th, 2010, under HAIR LOSS [ PHOTOS ] TREATED, MALE HAIR LOSS
These results have been achieved by using a 15% solution of both Vitastim and Biostim twice a day since May this year.
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