What hair will never tell you? How would you dye your hair blonde in ancient times? How many hair strands is on your head? Find out now!
1. 12, 14, 16
Those numbers defines hair strength, its composition and length. How? 12 tonnes is weight that whole head of hair could support. 14 different elements, including traces of gold, each strand of hair can contain. Mostly hair is composed of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and sulphur. 16 km is a yearly gross product per head of hair.
2. What’s your colour?
The chances are high because only 2 % of world population has natural blonde hair! The rarest hair colour is red and is only found in 1 % of the world’s population. And that makes blonde hair very valuable – it is 3 times more expensive than dark hair: 100 g of blonde, European hair costs circa 1200 euro. In case you were looking for a blonde wig.
3. How hairy is your head?
Average number of hair on the head is 100,000. If you are blonde the number grows up to 146,000. Average hair strands on black haired person head is 110,000. Brown haired are average of average. Redheads have the least number of 86,000 hair strands.
4. Cross section tells everything
Hair cross-sections can be used to tell what race or ethnic origin you are. People of European descent have oval shaped hair. African descent people have very flat shaped hair which makes it easy to curl. People of Asian descent have very round shaped hair and thanks to that they don’t need to know what hair iron is.
5. Hair won’t tell you
Hair is one of the most common types of forensic evidence. It contains lots of information about its owner including DNA and what has been through his or her blood stream (just to mention minerals and drugs). Hair reveals race but can’t reveal gender – it’s one thing that can’t be identified by hair strand.
6. Legally Blonde
It wasn’t that easy to be blonde in ancient times. In Greece blonde hair was associated with prostitution. On the other hand in Rome women wanted so badly to be blonde that they dyed their hair using pigeon dung. 14 centuries later in Renaissance Venice it was even harder to get desired blonde hair: horse urine was used to dye hair…
7. Whole life on your head
Almost. By the age of 65 average woman will spend more than 7 months of her life on her hair. Washing hair, blow drying and styling it takes 1 hour and 53 minutes weekly.
8. ShampooWe bet you thought that shampoo comes form France. Champaign – yes. The word shampoo isn’t French or even Latin one. It comes from Hindi-Urdu language. “Champna” means “to smear, knead the muscles, massage”. So the head massage is nothing new. Tell your hair stylist not to be so excited – it’s not his invention.
9. Scottish vampires
Ancient Greeks are very helpful when it comes to hair subject. They believed that redheads would turn into vampires after they died. That would turn 13 % of Scotland’s population into fangs!
10. Quick as hair
Did you know that hair is the second fastest growing tissue in the body? Only bone marrow is quicker. Average hair growth is 12 cm per year. There is something that makes hair grow faster and it’s not a physical thing, it is a feeling. Scientists proved that anticipation of sex makes hair grow faster.