The hair part may seem like an unimportant detail, but it actually has an incredible transformative capacity. Changing it from side to side, opting for a middle part or wearing it slightly blurred can achieve a completely different effect. A gesture as simple as changing the direction of the hair can become the best beauty trick to renew our image.
As dermatologist Ana Molina, a specialist in dermatology, trichology and aesthetic medicine at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, explained to the Telva publication: “Moving the hair part slightly to one side or making it in a zigzag helps to hide the lack of hair density in some areas of the hair and is a trick that works quite well to give the sensation of greater volume.”
When you have thin or thin hair, there are many tricks that can be done to enhance your hair. Among them are undoubtedly cuts for fine hair that provide volume and movement, and in this sense, playing with the parting of the hair is also a great strategy.
We already know that it is an optical trick but one of those that can work real magic, especially if we always have our part in the same place. “By changing the parting of the hair, we lift the roots and achieve that effect of more volume instantly. Of course, more hair does not grow nor do we make it thicker by doing so,” says Molina.
Fine hair is the perfect candidate for parting to the side.
Thin or sparse hair is one that especially benefits from parting on one side. When there is a lack of density in the central part of the head, which is a classic of female androgenetic alopecia, what we can do is modify the part to hide that area. “Moving it slightly to one side or making it in a zigzag helps to hide it. It is a trick that works quite well to give the sensation of greater volume,” indicates the dermatologist.
It can also happen that as you age, your hair part becomes increasingly wider. This is not at all unusual, especially after the age of 50. As time goes by, it is very normal for hair to become thinner, which is known as hair miniaturization. Now, this loss of density is not due to the parting of the hair, since as the expert clarifies, “alopecia causes the entire parietal area to appear with less hair density, and where it is most noticeable is in the area of the parting.”
Parting your hair in the same place does not make your hair fall out
This thought may be another of the hair myths, but in reality, parting your hair always in the same place does not encourage hair loss. “We can part our entire lives in the same place without any problem. What we do know is that constantly wearing our hair very tight can cause hair loss, for example, wearing very tight pigtails or buns,” explains Ana.
This is called traction alopecia and is a type of hair loss caused by repeated or constant tension on the hair follicles. For this reason, experts do not recommend abusing hairstyles like the clean look They are very strong because they are so taut and polished. “There we can see that we lose hair in the area of the parting and hair implantation. But the parting, by itself, does not damage the hair follicle,” clarifies Molina.
How to tell if your hair part is widening
Usually when this happens it is not from one day to the next. To check this, the expert recommends looking at two things: “If we see more and more scalp when parting our hair and if our ponytail is thinner than before, these are the two signs that the American Academy of Dermatology points out as early signs of female alopecia.”
Ana Molina clarifies that some people do not notice greater hair loss, but they do notice that the scalp is more visible. This is because the hair can progressively lose thickness, which reduces the sensation of hair density without necessarily observing hair loss as such.
In autumn the hair part becomes wider or not
It is common to notice increased hair loss during the fall, a phenomenon known as seasonal hair loss. This does not necessarily imply that alopecia exists, since it can be part of the natural hair renewal cycle, by which hair that is shed gives way to the growth of new hairs.
Although if we lose more hair than usual, we may temporarily notice less density. But as the dermatologist indicates, “if the line is getting wider month after month, I wouldn't just blame it on autumn. It's a good idea to rule out alopecia.”
This is how we can camouflage gray hair at the roots
When you have gray hair, in a few weeks the gray hair becomes noticeable in the root area. What can be done to hide growth and be able to space out visits to the hairdresser is to use root touch-up sprays as recommended by Ana Molina. With this type of product, gray hair can be temporarily covered, and it is not a dye but rather pigments that are deposited on the hair and are removed by washing.
Another trick from the expert is to play with the hair parting in our favor. If we do it in another point where there may be less gray hair or do it in a zigzag shape, we can hide the white line and achieve a more blurred effect.
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