I have always understood the collaboration between different professionals within an area as the way to get the best final result. The collaboration between the dermatologist and the hairdressing professional is one of those cases in which it may become more obvious, with unquestionable benefits for the patient/customer - the only aim that must be driven by our professional action.
I must admit that in my conversations with different hairdressing professionals, I have often learned details which had been previously overlooked and could be seen with a deeper contact with the patient; I have also tried to show some of these professionals how to detect some of the hair and scalp abnormalities, which would be the warning sign for internal problems, generally easy to solve if detected in time.
Many of those professionals would undeniably miss a guide that could increase their knowledge in the trichology and trichopathology fields, written in their language, that is, by someone who knew how to get to explain these topics in a direct, enjoyable and complete way from a hairdressing professional's perspective, but with the advice of a whole team of professionals within the different areas involved.
I think that Trino Miravete has reached his target, and the text in your hands opens a complete area of knowledge; thus, it delimits the field of action for each professional and, once the knowledge has been assimilated, it allows to establish the best collaboration among all of us.
Dr. Manuel Asín Llorca
Member of the Spanish Group of Trichology within the Spanish Academy of Dermatology
First of all, I would like to emphasise that this book is written by a hairdresser and addressed mainly to hairdressing professionals.
When I began, a few years ago, in the exciting world of hair treatments, I was deeply struck by the enormous difficulties I encountered when trying to find literature which was not strictly medical. This made me feel slightly restless and notably disoriented, which, without question, gave rise to these pages.
I hope that this book serves as a reference and support for your respective working places, which is why I have tried to organise it in a progressive and harmonic way. Apart from hairdressing professionals who look for trychologic information, I hope it may be useful to students, learners and hairdressing professionals-to-be.
I think it is equally important to learn to cut and style people's hair as to start to get the knowledge of the matter with which we are going to work and how we can face the abnormalities we will sometimes find in salons. This is an increasingly important matter in a hairdressing professional's training.
Even though we do not perform hair treatments and we treat only the hair in an aesthetic way, the respect for hair and scalp must be the essential norm in the hairdresser's daily job I would like to stress certain states of the skin and scalp that the hairdresser must sense. The skin, scalp and hair reflect the physical state and mood of our customers. And we can anticipate these states so that abnormalities do not become anything but that - abnormalities.
The 21st century hairdressers must be complete and well-prepared professionals, so they must perfectly know the biological medium they usually work with (hair and its environment), the abnormalities produced there and the way to detect and treat these.
Everything, absolutely everything, evolves in life; and I would like the hairdresser's evolution to lead to becoming a hair specialist. Probably and desirably, younger generations of professionals will manage to create a qualification for hairdressers in this matter.
| Chapter title | Page number |
|---|---|
| Preface | XIX |
| Introduction | XXI |
| Foreword: Why offering hair treatments in hairdressing salons | XXIII |
PART I: the scalp ![]() |
1 |
| 1. Living matter | 5 |
| 2. Cells and tissues | 13 |
| 3. The cutaneous organ | 23 |
| 4. The skin's structure | 29 |
| 5. Blood flow and innervations of the skin | 39 |
| 6. Keratinisation and melanogenesis | 53 |
| 7. Cutaneous appendages | 63 |
| 8. The pilohydrolipidic system | 67 |
| 9. The hair | 89 |
| 10. The base of the scalp | 101 |
PART II: Scalp abnormalities. Classification and description ![]() |
107 |
| 11. Scaling processes | 113 |
| 12. Seborrhoea and hyperhidrosis | 129 |
| 13. Hair stalk abnormalities | 135 |
| 14. Alopecias | 129 |
| 15. Androgenetic alopecia | 151 |
| 16. Deficiency baldness | 129 |
| 17. Postpartum alopecia | 197 |
| 18. Traumatic and other alopecias | 201 |
| 19. Pediculosis capitis (head lice) | 211 |
PART III: How to detect the scalp abnormalities ![]() |
215 |
| 20. Hair diagnosis | 221 |
| 21. Observation of the scalp | 227 |
| 22. Carrying out a trichogram | 239 |