Articles

Articles

Longer pieces on particular questions. The library pages cover the fundamentals; these go into specific situations.

• Could your hair loss be caused by stress?

  Stress causes a specific kind of shedding with a three-month delay. What telogen effluvium is, how to recognise it, and what stress does not cause.

• Vitamins, deficiency and hair

  Which nutrients genuinely affect hair, where supplementing helps, and where it does nothing. An honest look at deficiency versus marketing.

• Hair loss during menopause

  Why hair changes around menopause, how to tell shedding from pattern loss, and what is realistically treatable at that stage.

• Pregnancy and hair loss

  Why hair thickens during pregnancy and sheds afterwards, how long post-partum shedding lasts, and when it is worth investigating.

• What is scalp micropigmentation?

  What scalp micropigmentation is, how it differs from a tattoo, who it suits, how sessions work and what it cannot do.

• Micropigmentation or a transplant?

  Two procedures that solve different problems. What each actually does, where they overlap, and how they are often combined.

• Trichology and micropigmentation: what is the difference?

  One establishes what is happening to your hair. The other changes how it looks. Why the order matters.

• Which types of hair loss suit micropigmentation?

  Pattern loss, alopecia areata, scarring and traction — where scalp micropigmentation helps and where it is the wrong answer.

• Before you see a dermatologist about hair loss

  How to prepare for a dermatology appointment about hair loss, what the consultation can settle, and what to bring.

• How to choose between the options

  A practical order for deciding: what is causing it, what stage it is at, what you actually want changed, and what you are willing to maintain.

• Young women and hair loss

  Hair loss in your twenties and thirties: the causes that present early, why they are missed, and what is worth testing.

• Styling around thinning hair

  Practical ways to reduce the contrast that makes thinning visible, and the styling habits that make it worse.

• What actually helps, without a prescription

  Separating the evidence from the folklore: what non-prescription approaches genuinely affect hair, and what does nothing.

• Shaving your head when you are balding

  Thinking of shaving it or going to a buzz cut? What actually changes, how to judge whether it will suit you, and the options if a bare scalp is not the look you want.

• What people regret about scalp micropigmentation

  The things people actually regret about SMP — hairlines set too low, pigment that turned, fading, and choosing the wrong practitioner — and which are fixable.

• Becoming a trichologist in Australia

  Trichology is not an AHPRA-registered profession in Australia, which changes what training means and what to ask a provider. What the role involves, honestly.