A guide to Sticky-Uppy Hair

Growth patterns are of great significance in hair. Every hair emerges from your sweet head pointing in a direction. Some grow sideways, hugging your scalp, others stand straight up. Larger groups form swirls, crowns, double crowns, cowlicks and tsunami’s. All over you head there are patterns. A large part of you trying to get your hair to do what you want it to do is redirecting growth patterns. Spray some water on the stick-uppy crown, put some mousse in the areas that want to lay flat, try to get your bangs not to split, it’s growth patterns your dealing with.

A very significant factor in this is the fineness or coarseness of your hair. Coarse hair is stiff and somewhat inflexible, so whichever direction the growth pattern points it, it will go, whereas finer hair, being more flexible, can more easily bend around in a different direction. The length of the hair also plays a significant role, longer hair isn’t often affected much by growth patterns because it has the weight and the length to make them more or less irrelevant.

To say the haircut affects your ability to deal with growth patterns is at least an understatement. A skilled, experienced hairstylist is very aware of all the patterns and works with them, utilizing certain ones while minimizing the affects of others. Take what you’ve got, use what you can in a positive, helpful way and do what you can to moderate the more challenging areas. A good plan for anything, not just hair.

So why am I telling you all this? A little understanding goes along way. If you have coarse hair, wild growth patterns and shorter hair you’re going to need a very skilled hairstylist. If you have bangs that are forever doing crazy things, they’d best be cut by someone who understands them. If you’ve got hair that grows flat against your head on the top it’s going to be tough getting volume up there without a lot of work, a good stylist can help with that.

Each head of hair has a particular personality. If you and your hair are going to be happy, everything about that personality must be considered, respected and cooperated with. Then and only then does a haircut become a work of art.