I’m pleased to welcome erotic romance author Starla Kaye back to the blog today. Today she’s mixing things up a little…and sharing some interesting trivia about hair. I’m sure you’ll learn something from today’s post. I know I did. Please make Starla feel welcome by leaving your questions and comments in the comments section following this post.
Congratulations are also in order today. Starla’s latest short story Testing Their Love has been finalized and is in the final stages of formatting. Watch for Testing Their Love an erotic domestic discipline short story. It’ll be available at Amazon early next week if not sooner.
Hair Trivia
By Starla Kaye
Hair is an interesting topic, to me. I am a very visual person. When I create my characters, I find pictures from somewhere online, in magazines, or photos I find from a number of other places. As I write and attempt to describe my characters, I refer back to these pictures.
Recently I did a blog post on my Starla Kaye website about resources for writers concerning hair: the history of hairstyles, hair color, men’s hair and beards. It was fun and useful gathering the research and you are welcome to check it out at “Let’s Talk About Hair.”
I decided to take that a step farther and share some trivia tidbits about hair. Did you know that…
blonds usually have more strands of hair than redheads or brunettes
a strand of hair is as strong as a wire of iron, can support 2 ½ pounds, and it takes a 60kg force to rip it
we lose about 40 to 100 strands of hair every day
crash dieting can trigger temporary hair loss
female hair grows slower than male hair
the lifespan of a hair strand is 2 to 7 years
hair grows faster in warm weather
humidity stretches the hair
Renaissance women lightened their hair by coating their hair with a mixture of lye and saffron
to help cure his baldness Aristotle rubbed goat pee on his scalp
Hippocrates used a mixture of opium, wine, olive oil, horseradish, and pigeon poop to help with his baldness
Sources:
Hair Boutique: Weird & Wonderful Hair Facts
ukhairdressers: Hair Facts
Fun Trivia Hairstyles: Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
10 Fun Facts for Kids About Hair
haven’t thought about it much.
With the focus on hair — something I think of as kind of visual…have you gotten into Pinterest yet? It seems like that would be a great place to keep pictures of potential hair styles for your characters…both contemporary and historical.
I have signed up for Pinterest but sadly have yet to do any pinning.
Yes, I’ve been on Pinterest for a while now and have a number of categories. One of them is “characters” but I haven’t put hairstyles there. I will start doing that.
What’s your name at Pinterest? I’ll have to check you out and follow you.
The cures for baldness are quite funny…and yucky!
I wouldn’t have thought they would be very good for attracting company either. Perhaps that’s why men worry so much about baldness. It’s not the baldness that is unattractive…but the cure for it.
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Maybe Aristotle & Hippocrates were NOT so profound in their thinking.
Really…I thought their ideas were quite yucky!