Hair Loss: Tips for Coloring

    Ready to hit the bottle? With a few precautions, coloring thinning hair can be safe -- and may even protect the hair shaft from breaking.

There's a myth that permanent hair-color is damaging, but that's only true if you bleach your hair or if you use the color incorrectly.

Meanwhile, semi-permanent colors that are acid-based may protect around the hair cuticle, and acid-based colors may coat -- and protect -- the hair.

Hair Shaft Defects

    There are a multitude of conditions where physical damage to the hair fiber results in hair loss. Sometimes this damage to the hair fiber is due to the hair being improperly formed by the hair follicles. These conditions are usually determined by genetic defects. There are also conditions where physical damage of the hair fiber is caused by something environmental, most often poor or inappropriate hair care. Hair loss as a result of physical hair defects are rare compared to other causes of alopecia, but the most common ones are listed below.