Ageless Beauty for our Hair:

One Decade at a Time

“You go girl!”

Funny how we used to hate being called “girl” and thought it disrespectful and demeaning. Bring it on now! Lady or Mrs. X just sound much too formal and OLD. Our lives have hopefully settled in, medications and our bodies have stabilized and we now just have to plan how to bow out or change careers or find the energy to keep working! We also want to resist sagging, hair loss and ANYTHING having to do with gravity at this point. We need to use our extra time for fun activities as well as healthy ones. Taking time to enjoy our friends and new rituals (meditation, tea time, spa, travel) also lets us “fuss” more with our bodies and we relax, which in turn is good for our whole body’s health.

By now, we know the advantages of sun block, exercise, hydration and great hair care. Our ‘crowning glory” has hopefully not only survived, but strengthened through our use of proper hair products and the circulation “secret” to better hair…laser hair therapy for women. With better circulation of red blood cells that surround and feed each hair follicle, hair should be well fed and looking stronger, shinier and perkier. The laser hair comb does just that, stimulates hair growth. Hair in our 60s tends to flatten out and stick to the shape of our heads.

Shorter hair styles can be a great statement for a shock of white, coarser hair or the proper cut can lift up thinning hair as it has less support from a weakened follicle and from a reduced amount of “friends” around to prop him up! So, consider going shorter, lighter, and have a more modern look as well as improving the health of your scalp and hair.

Sometimes, sexy sixties can be a misnomer. Some women find that the skin in our vaginal area is also starting to dry out just like the skin on our heads and bodies. Your doctor can recommend creams or other means of stopping this form of dryness, but it also helps if we continue to concentrate on hydrating our bodies from the inside and exercising to keep our natural blood and juices flowing. Helping to keep our sexy hair through natural hair loss treatment is also preferable to using wigs or goopy hair mousses which look unnatural and are ultimately just suffocating the follicles on our scalp. Our natural hair growth doesn’t even stand a chance then! Less weight on our bodies and less weighted down hair on our heads are a great goal if we want to keep looking our best!

Many women in our 60’s are keeping up with the nips and tucks that are advertised in most every magazine…even the famous retirement mag. Some still get Botox injections, fillers, dermabrasions and mini face lifts as the years start to knock a little louder. Along with our face, our hair is something that we cannot easily hide. So, what is the best female hair loss treatment?

It is actually proven, salon tested laser hair therapy that the latest technology brings to us at home. Laser hair therapy has gone from bulky hoods and hair treatment centers that not only cost a lot of money, but tied up your time as well… to a hand held Personal Hair Therapy Laser with ease of use and a fraction of the cost that can be used in privacy and yields the same if not better results. Check out the website for the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser and see how many folks their product has helped. We may just be Getting Sexy Back!!!

This concludes our series on Ageless Beauty…One Decade at a Time.

We do NOT want to ignore our friends in their 70s, 80s and 90s who are overcoming the “loss” battle, but all of the options for healthy hair are going to be pretty much the same for those next decades. If you belong to that group, relax, you already have a lot of friends at the same stages, and although we are all unique, we are all Ageless Beauties!

So…we have made it to our 50’s! Just in time to watch our mates (and maybe ourselves) start the decade with “midlife crisis”…and also start our own body’s transformation into menopause and the realization that we have probably NOT saved enough for our retirement in our 60’s. It is not ALL doom and gloom, however. We now have a better idea of where we want to go in life, who we really are and what we like to do.

Hopefully we have great friends, family and careers that can take the “freak” out of “freak out”! In our 50’s we try to tame the grays and look for female hair loss treatments as our hair starts to thin due to the change of hormones or newly prescribed medications in our systems. How can we “stop” time?

A natural hair loss treatment starts with making sure that our bodies are continuing to take in the proper nutrition and especially enough water. Gray hairs are coarser and duller now and good cleansing shampoos and light conditioners along with making sure that we are keeping hydrated will give our hair and scalp a means of combating a quicker death of our aging hair follicles. Hydration keeps cells plump and light moisturizers and conditioners keep our skin and scalp pores from clogging. Clogged follicles are actually suffocating new hair growth! So make sure to use a shampoo without sulfates (soapy bubbles leave soapy scum!).

Another way to combat aging is to maintain a great exercise routine. This not only tones and gives our muscles a chance to fight fat, it also increases circulation. Increased circulation is one of the best treatments for thinning hair, and along with exercise a new laser hair comb is a great option to increase nutrition-rich blood to each hungry hair follicle. The new laser hair therapy for women is a simple to use (20-30 minutes every other day) hair loss treatment that is affordable and now sold for home use. I recommend the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser for all of these qualities.

The 50’s are still fraught with stressors from worry about job loss, paying for college tuition, work vs. parenting/relationship time, etc., and some of us may be given new medications to combat these problems. Medications for normal body changes such as blood pressure and cholesterol elevation, joint or back pain also seem to be the “norm” at least in all of the TV and magazine ads! Although sometime these medications are necessary and taken correctly, they do cause other symptoms such as changes in our skin and hair.

Take ANY medications responsibly and see your doctor if uncomfortable changes or symptoms come to your attention. There are natural ways to combat dry mouth, hair and skin changes. Hair regrowth drugs such as minoxidil in Rogaine are also now being used by men and women to combat hair loss. If that is the route you choose to take, the laser hair therapy for women mentioned above is also safe to use as a thinning hair treatment along with these medications.

Shorter hair styles, highlights (just don’t overdo the harsh chemicals) and occasional oil or “hair mask” treatments will keep hair looking younger too. Be careful of harsh dyes, teasing (we don’t want to break what we are trying to keep!) chlorine and hair pieces or extensions that are too heavy and actually pull out more hair (what a vicious cycle that would be!) than they replace. The laser hair brush for hair loss is also safe to use with any hair dyes, treatments, or shampoos. It is a great addition to our healthy ways to keep our hair full, shiny and looking like we were at least back in those Fabulous Forties again!

Next up is a look at hair in our 60s. Keep your eyes posted for our series “Ageless Beauty…One Decade at a Time”!