As common as hair loss is, the facts and reasons behind it often elude us from understanding why it happens and how we can prevent it. We spoke to Tien Goh, the Educational Manager at Shiseido Professional, to delve a little deeper into the most common misconceptions she’s heard of when it comes to hair loss, thinning hair, and hair breakage, and why they’re actually wrong.
For Tien, who has been in the business for 16 years and running, she’s no stranger to the myths of hair loss and has heard everything across the spectrum from hats causing baldness to the belief that dead follicles can still grow healthy hair. Here, she debunks six most common myths she’s come across: