I went to beauty school, as some of you may know.  Unlike 2/3 of my class, I know what pH means and why a low one is better for your hair/scalp.  I love helping people with hair questions.  So, I figure some of you might have them from time to time.  This thread will be for you to bug me with them.  Go ahead, give it your best shot.  See if you can stump me.

Humidity + hair = frizz. I want this to go away, but hate products in my hair. It has to feel natural and clean. The only thing I have managed to use on a regular basis is detangler, cuz I need it to brush my hair after showers.

Also- Whats up with the little baby hairs some people get? What are they for?

Ummm. I have thick, straight hair and I love it.. but I love curly hair more. I want to know if there is a non-damaging way to get loose curls without using a lot of gel or hair gunk..

I would recommend hot rollers.  You will have to use some product, but probably nothing stronger than a mousse.  With hot rollers, you want the hair to be mostly but not all dry.  Work a small amount of mousse into hair (approximately the size of a golfball) starting at the ends.  Place rollers in hair.  Allow to cool.  If the hair is still damp, blowdry on low until the dampness has gone.  When the curlers are removed, run fingers or a wide toothed comb through the hair to soften and seperate.

Humidity + hair = frizz. I want this to go away, but hate products in my hair. It has to feel natural and clean. The only thing I have managed to use on a regular basis is detangler, cuz I need it to brush my hair after showers.

Also- Whats up with the little baby hairs some people get? What are they for?

The only thing that will remove frizz entirely is a product, such as an anti-frizz balm.  I would suggest BioSilk, as theirs is lightweight.  If you use a tiny amount (between the size of a dime and the size of a nickel, depending on hair length) it normally doesn't weigh hair down, nor does it really feel like product.  It is essentially a very lightweight oil, which doesn't cause stiffness and other annoying prouduct feelings. 

To make the hair less frizzy (but not completely smooth), wash in lukewarm water and rinse with cool water.  This helps to calm the cuticle of the hair, making it lie down straight.  Also, with curly hair (which I believe you have), a brush is not preferable.  A wide-toothed comb will work best and cause fewest breaks.  By wide toothed, I mean one whose teeth are approximately 1/8 of an inch at the tips and are spaced about 1/4 inch apart. 

The baby hairs are literally that.  Baby hairs.  Your hair has three phases of growth.  Newly growing, slowly dying, and shedding.  Obviously it can't all go through all of these phases at once, or you would spend some time bald.  On avarage, 1/3 of the hairs on your head are in each phase at a time.  Note that "newly growing" is anything up to two inches, "dying" is anything from there to 3 years worth of growth, and "shedding" can take months to finally fall out.

I have very fine, very thickly, uh, growing hair. There are a lot of hair follicles per square inch and the hairs themselves are fine. It's long and straight with a slight wavy tendency in the front, but not the back. I shower generally every day and use a Suave shampoo and conditioner that say they "nourish as well as Biolage". I don't use a hair dryer or a curler. About every three months or so I dye it with a gentle product... usually Natural Instincts.

My hair loves to tangle and the front parts love to frizz. Even getting blown about in a breeze makes snarls that I have to brush out. And when I say snarls, I mean little knots of hair that I brush out and throw away. I think I could sit still in a chair and it would slowly frizz up and try to tangle itself. I carry a brush so I can brush my hair during the day, else I would look wild and tangly. Is there any hope for me?

With hair such as yours (and mine) the best hope is to add a protein conditioner.  Moisturizing conditioners work best for curly hair.  On straight fine hair, they tend to weigh it down, which is good, and make it limp, which is not.  Alternate the two, doing the protein one approximately twice as often.  Personally, I love the conditioners at Origins, but they can be a bit pricey.  Check Cost Cutters or even grocery stores, as they often will have salon brands for slightly lower than salon prices nowadays.  In your specific case, with the severe tangling and frizzing, I would also recommend using a leave-in conditioner or an anti-frizz product, such as the BioSilk that I recommended for Pixie4now.  However, since you have fine hair, be very careful with products like those.  Anything more than a very small amount can cause hair like ours to look oily and limp.  Not attractive.  Again, let me emphasize that lukewarm/cool water is really much better for your scalp and hair, and the fewer washes a week you can subject your poor hair to, the happier it will be.

Actually, you have been infested with alien hair parasites or "hairisites".  The only cure is fire.  I suggest asking the P.u.P.P. for help with this one.

I am a young man and I have begun to notice I have hair in places where there was no hair before.

Am I experiencing the first stages of early-onset lycanthropy?

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Well, first off, washing your hair every day, especially if you then style it heavily, is seriously bad for it.  So good for you.  2 times a week is plenty, though 3 or even 4 times should be fine, too, depending on how oily your scalp is.

That being said, hmm.  A bun is the easiest sollution, barring the fact that it seriously sucks to sleep on.  However, there are ther methods.  You could pin the curls flat to your head, or you could find a sleeping cap (like the ones women wear in pilgrim movies and cartoons) which would keep it in place on your head.  other than those two things, though, or using a curling iron to touch it up the second day, I'm not sure how to keep the style longer.  some women have learned to sleep without messing their hair up.  Sounds exhausting to me, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Washing your hair daily is bad for you? I'm in trouble then. I have fine to oily hair, and even just by the end of 24 hours it's starting to get greasy. I use Matrix Biolage Normalizing Shampoo, and Matrix Biolage Detangling Light Condition (only on the tips, and only a couple times a week). I use no products beyond that, and I never blow dry. The Matrix has improved my hair, it used to oily much easier. But unless I've just taken a shower, and it may be personal, but I think it feels slimey and I feel the need to pull it back. What wisdom do you have for me, hair guru? I have climbed this mountain of clippings to learn the meaning of life...er...shampoo.

Well, talc can help a bit with oily hair.  A small amount of talc or baby powder combed through your hair can absorb some of the oil, much like those oil blotting papers for your face.  Also, overly harsh shampoos can cause excess oil production, as can a moisturizing conditioner when you have fine hair and need a protein based one.  However, in Tora's case, I doubt the shampoo is the problem.  If your scalp is healthy and you aren't getting split ends or hair breakage shampooing that much, you should be ok.  However, I would recommend every other day if you can get away with it.

If you ever have kids, washing their hair once a week as babies and toddlers can prevent these sorts of problems when they get older.   Just as generalized advice.

I have superfine hair, but lots of follicles per inch.  I recently had about a month span of time where I'd run my fingers through my hair and come out with 20-40 strands, with the whole root attached.  My scalp itched terribly; I had just switched to MOP lemon grass shampoo, and about two weeks after I stopped using it, the problem went away.  I have since gotten rid of the shampoo, because I'm pretty sure that was the problem (itching started on day 2 of using it, hair loss started on day 5, I used it for another week not realizing it was the problem, then stopped).  It's growing back in, really super babyfine, and slowly.

Right now, I wash my hair daily because I have for most of my life.  Like some others, if I don't do that then it's not just oily but greasy.  Basically, if I wash my hair at 7am on Monday, by midday Tuesday it's lank and flat and gross, and by Tuesday evening it feels almost slick to the touch.  I recently switched from KMS 'everyday' shampoo to their 'thickening' shampoo, and like the effects.  I use their 'silker' conditioner, but if I use their 'silker' shampoo my hair is greasy within about six hours after washing it, and my face breaks out.

Questions:  I thought the 'thickener' shampoo just kind of roughed your hair up a little so it didn't lie as flat, but I've been noticing that occasionally one of my hairs will be thick and wiry and a little bit wavy, and dark dark brown where my hair has always been fine, straight, and light brown.  Is that more likely to be from the thickening shampoo or the bout with scalp drama?  Will it go away?

Also, the reason I changed to the MOP in the first place was because it's hard to find KMS where I am, and the stylist who used to sell it to me is seven hundred miles away.  I would like to change shampoos to something more readily available.  I tried Matrixx, and was not terribly impressed though I didn't hate it.  I tried Bumble and Bumble, and loved it dearly but can't afford to double what I'm paying for shampoo (20 bucks for an eight-ounce bottle is just too much right now; my punkin thinks I'm crazy that I pay half that!).  I like the effects of a thickening shampoo combined with a light to medium conditioner, but don't want to go through another bout of hair loss for changing shampoos again.  Right now, my hair is cut at just longer than shoulder length, with bangs and long layers.  Overall, I'm happy with it, but I'd like to be able to buy shampoo in liters and save on it, instead of having to go with the smaller bottles I can find.  Do you have a recommendation?  I'm highly sensitive to anything that contains propylene glycol.

Oh wise Crystal, do please help!

I'm looking for a decent shampoo, that's not too expensive.  I don't wash my hair every day, but I also don't have much control over the temperature of my shower.  Pretty please, suggestions?