The Principle of Tension-Part 2

Hair Type: All

Hair Porosity: All

Hair Sensitivities: All

Hair Goal: All

Healthy hair growth starts with a healthy scalp. A healthy scalp starts with healthy blood circulation and air. Without air, your body cannot benefit from oxygen which is an essential compound in your body's biochemistry. The principle of tension applies to the act of pulling and parting the hair (gently) and pressing the scalp (massaging) to increase blood circulation. Both pulling and pressing can help with air and blood circulation on your scalp.

Too much pulling can lead to scalp injury. The injury can cause inflammation, your body's immune response being activated. Inflammation can lead to less blood circulation to the scalp. Areas of your head that have little to no blood circulation always lose hair.

Too much pressing on the head like headbands, tight wigs, tight scarfs. All these components can cut off air to the scalp which is another way of cutting off blood circulation. This leads to hair loss. Your hair follicles cannot be supported without blood circulation and the principle of tension addresses this.

Types of Tension

Gentle pulling, parting on the scalp Description: the act of parting hair for styling, pulling hair into a style, or even smoothing product into the hair. All these methods pull at your scalp and can increase blood circulation.	Pulling hair into a pony tail, parting hair, braiding, twisting hair, etc Increases blood circulation, increases air to the scalp Anything that aids in blood circulation and air is going to aid you with hair growth, increasing hair strength, and even retaining moisture.
Stretching hair strands Description: this involves stretching your hair from its original curl state. Stretching the hair can be as simple as a ponytail, to braids, twists, blowout, threading, or locs. Stretching the hair keeps hair from tangling.	Blowout, silk press, threading, braiding, twisting, etc Stretches hair strands themselves. this prevents knotting, matting, and tangling Anything that aids in preventing tangling is going to help with length retention.
Scalp Massages Description: pressing fingers or using tools to massage your scalp. This increases blood circulation to your scalp.	Can be circular or just pressing down to invoke blood circulation Increases blood circulation Increased blood circulation means increased hair growth rate. One can address hair growth areas that are slower or more sparse than others.

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And just like that! The Principle of HairCare series has come to a beautiful close. These are major haircare gems and they are game-changers. The principle of Tension is a wonderful way to address areas of your hair that is struggling. Take time to part your hair and even more time to massage your hair daily. You will notice a difference as long as you remain consistent. Thank you for sticking through this series. Follow the social media pages on Tik Tok and Instagram: @africanhaircarescience. As always, see you next week :)