It happens every winter; bad hair days. Every time I take off a wool hat or pull on a sweater my hair goes haywire. Either it's standing up or glued to the side of my head and combing it worsens the doo. Have you had those days too? I knew it was caused by static electricity however I never knew it was because of the dry air. Static electricity is the imbalance of positive or negative charges and the dry winter air acts as an insulator for the electricity which causes a buildup of static. You don't experience the same amount of static during the summer, because the humidity acts as a conductor, quickly transferring the electricity and preventing a static buildup. So when you take off a wool hat or sweater in the winter, the loose electrons in your hair transfer to the wool. Now your hair has a positive charge, and because like charges repel, your hair stands up and apart from each other. Luckily, the hair crisis can be quickly and easily managed by a little water or various hair products.
3 comments:
einstein always had wild hair, he was a genius, can't blame him.
Yes, I'd say that out of the 7 days of the week I have four bad hair days.
I love how you chose the picture of Einstein and thank you for explaining why our hair can get really untamable.
I can't even begin to explain my bad hair days! My hair is kind of the opposite though. In the summer it's just a huge mess! It's always a huge poof ball with a bunch of stragglers standing up. Someone once told me that your hair is worse when you dry it with a towel, and that its better to dry it with a paper towel. I've never tried this, but i wonder if it's true.
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