If your 20s are considered to be a dress rehearsal for adulthood, your 30s are opening night. You’ve learned the hard lessons, and now you finally feel (somewhat) settled. You’re ready to start putting yourself first, and that includes taking better care of your hair.

After a decade of experimenting with your look, your 30s are a great time to put down the bleach and hot tools and start caring for your natural hair. To help, VEGAMOUR spoke with the experts about how to properly care for your hair in your 30s. Read on to find out their best advice — plus, discover what products you should use to keep your hair healthy as you age.

Your Hair in Your 30s

Your hair changes with every decade as a result of aging, genetics and environmental and lifestyle factors. Your diet, overall health and the products you use in your hair care routine can all impact your hair health and even your hair growth. Your hair in your 30s is likely in some state of recovery from the hair issues you experienced in your 20s, which often comes as a result of chemical treatments, hot tools and UV damage.

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The Aging Process and How Hair Changes

“In our 30s, hair starts to reflect our natural changes as well as lifestyle habits,” said Laurie Smith, a hair texture specialist and Aveda-trained stylist. “Our follicles start to produce less hair. Men and women start to notice a change in density due to the hair resting phase lengthening, causing less hair to regrow after a hair naturally sheds.”

Many women choose to start their families once they’ve entered their 30s, which can be a big change for your body and your hair. “For those having a baby, hormonal changes can create a boost of natural oils and hair growth during pregnancy and the complete opposite after giving birth,” said Smith.

In your 30s, you might start to see gray hair come in, which some people choose to cover with hair color until they’re ready to embrace the gray. However, color-treated hair is typically drier and requires extra maintenance and treatments to keep the hair shaft healthy.

Some of the hair changes you might see in your 30s include:

• Itchy scalp due to a change in the moisture balance on your scalp
• Stress-related hair loss, including thinning and breaking
• Occasional gray hairs as a result of decreased melanin production
• Additional frizz due to decreased oil production
• Overall lack of moisture, which starts at the scalp and trickles down to the strands, leading to a change in hair texture and hair health

For healthy hair in your 30s and beyond, you’ll want to start caring for your hair from the inside out.

Related: How to Keep Your Hair Healthy as You Age

Tips for Caring for Your Hair in Your 30s

Ready to start taking better care of your hair in your 30s? Here are a few tips to keep in mind for stronger, healthier hair in what is sure to be one of the most exciting decades of life.

Eat a Balanced Diet

While you can’t control everything about the aging process (genetics and environmental factors play a heavy role), you do have control over certain lifestyle factors, including your diet. Eating healthy, whole foods does wonders for your health and can even help ward off chronic diseases and increase longevity. All those vitamins and minerals found in healthy fruits and vegetables also enhance your hair health, resulting in strong, shiny and healthy strands.

Remember to stay hydrated — aging hair craves hydration, which starts from the inside but is helped by moisturizing hair care products.

Also: 12 Foods to Grow Your Healthiest Hair Ever

Treat Your Hair With Kindness

As you age, it’s more important than ever to protect your hair. So in this decade, you’ll want to start treating your hair a little more carefully. Avoid overbrushing your hair, especially wet hair, which can cause scalp damage and increased hair loss. Use a wide-tooth comb instead to comb through knots, starting from the bottom and working your way up to the root.

To gently cleanse and soothe an itchy scalp and banish harmful environmental and product build up, use a scalp detoxifying serum before you shampoo and condition.

Skip the blow dryer and hot tools and embrace your natural texture. Air drying your hair helps prevent heat damage and saves you a ton of time getting ready.

Just like a nightly skincare routine, you should consider adopting a nightly hair care routine to stay on top of your hair health.

“Changes as simple as brushing the hair with a leave-in conditioner, placing it in a top knot with a hair coil and sleeping on a satin pillowcase can prevent breakage and maintain moisture,” said Smith.

Read: The Difference Between Hair Loss and Hair Breakage

Reduce Stress

Stress can take a toll on your body, mind and your hair. Significant emotional stress may be linked to at least one type of hair fall or loss called telogen effluvium. While telogen effluvium is temporary and reversible, the hair growth cycle slows down with age, which means that it may take your hair longer to recover once the stressful event has passed.

Be sure to proactively manage stress levels for optimal overall health. Regular exercise, sleep and a balanced diet can help improve both physical and mental health.

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Get Ahead of Going Gray

Those first gray hairs can come as quite a shock, and if you’re in your 30s, you may not be ready to make the leap and go gray.

If you want more control over when and how you decide to embrace your grays, the GRO AGELESS Collection by VEGAMOUR can help.

GRO AGELESS Gray Delay™ Hair Supplement helps to preserve hair’s natural pigment and keep grays at bay for longer. The supplement is a proprietary blend of bioavailable adaptogens and minerals, which support collagen-rich shine, healthy follicles and thicker, fuller-looking hair.

If those first gray hairs have already made their appearance, our GRO AGELESS Anti-Gray Hair Serum, which contains caffeine, peptides, vitamins B3, B5, B6 and E, Fo-Ti and glycoproteins, can help. In clinical studies, the serum has been shown to increase melanocytes (the hair cells that produce pigment for our hair) by up to 280% after 12 weeks of treatment while also boosting melanin production by up to 127%! Plus, participants experienced up to 34% repigmentation of 79% of gray hairs in 16 weeks.

30 and Thriving

Age 30 may be the new 20, but this milestone is also a good reminder that it’s time to start taking better care of your body. Aging is a natural process, but how you choose to go through the process is up to you. Eating a balanced diet, making a few small lifestyle changes, and being proactive about taking care of yourself and your hair are great habits to pick up in your 30s to help carry you through life’s next chapters!

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Cristina Montemayor

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Cristina Montemayor

Cristina Montemayor is a beauty writer and editor based in Austin, Texas. She's written for publications including Fashionista, BeautyMatter, Brides, and SELF, among others. In addition to her work as a beauty writer and editor, she's also a freelance makeup artist for weddings, events and commercial productions.

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The TLE984x family was specifically designed to fit to a wide range of LIN-slave applications where a small package form factor and a minimum number of external components are essential.

The TLE984x product family is offered in a leadless VQFN-48 package to save board space.

TLE9842QX 2500 Electronic Components Parameter (Specification)

Arm® Cortex® M0 MCU
System clock up to 25MHz
36kB Flash memory, including 4K EEPROM emulation
2KB RAM
1 High-Side & 2 Low-Side Switches with PWM capability
5V power supply output

Integrated LIN transceiver compatible with LIN standard 2.2 and SAE J2602-supports fast programming via LIN
8-bit ADC with 7 channels for Voltage and Temperature supervision
10-bit ADC with 13 channels (6 Analog Inputs, 5 HV Monitor inputs and battery sense)
On chip oscillator & PLL
PWM signal generator and 16 bit timers

Benefits:
Complete system-on-chip
Minimum number of external components reduces BOM cost
VQFN package with 7×7 mm footprint enables PCB space saving

TLE9842QX 2500 Electronic Components Feature And Application

platform for a broad range of applications including microcontrollers, automotive body systems and industrial control systems

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The design is based on Infineons Smart Power Technology SPT which allows bipolar, CMOS and power D-MOS devices on the same monolithic circuit. Operation modes forward (cw), reverse (ccw) and brake are invoked by two control pins PWM and DIR. 

Protection and a reliable diagnosis of overcurrent, openload, short-circuit to ground, to the supply voltage or across the load are integrated. Detailed diagnostic information is given via the 8 bit SPI status word. An integrated chopper current limitation limits the current e.g. to reduce power dissipation during mechanical block of a DC motor.

Several device parameters can be set by the SPI control word. A three-level temperature monitoring with prewarning, warning and shutdown is included for controlled operation under critical power loss conditions. The full protection and diagnosis capability make the device suitable especially for safety relevant applications, e.g. in automotive ECUs.

Product Features

Type

Main product features

TLE6209R

Delivers up to 6 A continuous and 7 A peak current

Optimized for DC motor management applications

Outputs fully short circuit protected

Open load detection

Ever feel like you’re fighting a battle with your own hair? Fine hair can fall flat in no time — in spite of your best efforts. How frustrating! Those with fine hair know the struggle of trying to add volume to limp tresses and have tried every hack and holy grail product under the sun.

VEGAMOUR spoke with an expert stylist for some inside tips and tricks to add extra volume to your fine tresses. Plus, discover the power trio that will turn things around for your dull, fine hair!

Characteristics of Fine Hair

Fine hair will go limp and flat very quickly. So, what makes your fine hair so flat? And how can you get more voluminous hair and add volume to fine strands without damaging your hair? Adding volume is as easy as a few changes to your hair care routine.

Firstly, how do you know if have fine hair? Fine hair is small in diameter, per strand, and may have a lighter density (strands per square inch). However, you can have a very thick head of hair and it still be fine in texture.

Thinning hair, on the other hand, can be any hair type. It sheds more than normal, hence the term thinning.

Common characteristics of fine hair include:

• Hair appears thin.
• If you can see the scalp.
• Hair falls flat easily, creating a limp hair look.
• Frequent flyaways or static.
• Susceptibility to product build-up, which can weigh hair down.
• Generally lacks volume.
• Normal levels of scalp oil or excess oil produced by the sebaceous glands can create an oily hair look.
• May require more frequent washing.
• Wet hair may be more prone to breakage than other hair types.

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Shampooing and Conditioning Fine Hair

What you do in the shower will make or break your style, regardless of your haircut. Luckily, VEGAMOUR’s innovative shampoos and conditioners do the work for you. These products feature Karmatin™, a proprietary vegan keratin that bonds to hair and doesn’t rinse out, leaving hair as smooth as glass. 

Try a deep conditioning hair mask so you don’t have to skip on the nourishing hair self-care sessions. Not to worry — it won’t leave your hair limp. Hair is soft, voluminous and so healthy looking that people will ask what you’ve been doing to look so good! Finally, you don’t have to sacrifice moisture for volume on your thin hair strands.

Choose Hair Care Products for Finer Hair Textures

Avoid products with volume-destroying ingredients like silicones. Your hair is far too fine to handle large-diameter hair shaft clingers like these.

As a side note, all of VEGAMOUR’s hair care products for thinning hair of any type are silicone-free. VEGAMOUR also utilizes vegan protein solutions so you can feel good about the hair products you are using for adding volume without adding hair stress to thin hair strands.

VEGAMOUR also created a dry shampoo that’s perfect for a quick boost of volume. If you’re dealing with flat hair at the office, for example, and you want a pick-me-up before your afternoon presentation, just pop into the bathroom, give the roots of your hair a quick spray of dry shampoo, fluff and go!

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How to Blow Dry Fine Hair

On one hand, blow drying your hair gives it more volume. On the other hand, heat styling can damage your hair. The best way to blow dry your hair is sparingly and with intention: protect the hair, allow most of it to air dry and then go in with a quick warm blast at the root area to add volume.

Start by gently towel-drying damp hair and allowing it to air dry a little before blow drying. This can reduce stress on your hair. Use heat styling at the end of the drying time to give hair that extra volume where you need it. Create volume by using the directional attachment on your blow dryer to give a boost at the roots.

If you blow dry your hair simply to perk it up and add volume, do this on dry hair. Don’t brush it while it’s warm or you’ll brush the volume right back out. Hold your head upside down and allow the hair to completely cool before you tussle those tresses.

For voluminous curls, blow dry the hair upside down and use a diffuser attachment for long-lasting volume. Use heat protection but don’t apply tons of it. A little goes a long way.

More Styling Tips to Add Texture and Volume

Have you been having trouble adding texture and volume to fine hair? Check out this hit-list of expert styling tips to transform thin strands:

• A gentle tease at the roots can add lift to your crown.
• Volumizing shampoos often work by roughing up the outer scales of your hair shafts. This can be damaging over time. Instead, add more body by using a gentler shampoo that’s made for fine hair without damaging your delicate hair cuticle.
• Get a more volumizing haircut by adding a few layers.
• Apply shampoo lightly to the scalp but concentrate more on the ends. One quick shampoo should suffice. Apply conditioner to the ends only so the hair does not fall flat from weight at the roots.
• Do a gentle tease at the root area with a wide tooth comb or a finer teasing comb to give the appearance of more full hair where you want it.

Also: This Is the Best Conditioner for Fine Hair

Haircuts for Fine or Thin Hair

If you’re using all the right products and trying all the thin hair styling tips and your hair’s still a mess, it could be you’ve got the wrong haircut for fine hair. Some light layers to remove weight will help to add volume and lift right where you need it. This works especially well for short hair cuts but can also perk up medium and long hair looks.

One-length hair may be far too heavy for your hair type. Adding some layers is good but too many layers will remove the structure of your cut. Work with a knowledgeable stylist that understands how to cut fine hair for more volume. Also, use texturizing techniques sparingly. Too much texturizing will have a negative effect and possibly flatten hair — or worse, make it frizzy and unmanageable.

VEGAMOUR spoke with Cindy Marcus, hairstylist and editor of LatestHairstyles.com to get the tea on styling your fine tresses.

According to Marcus, it’s super important to have a cut that removes weight while leaving enough hair to style to “voluminous perfection.” She explained that you could get a little help around the hairline by adding some bangs, like side swept bangs or face-framing curtain bangs.

“Side, curtain or traditional bangs can hide thinning hair in the front and give the illusion of more fullness,” said Marcus.

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Try this Trick for Your Roots

Marcus also shared a cool trick for color-treated hair.

“Find a color spray meant to cover gray hair that best matches your hair. You can use this even if you do not have gray showing. Using this spray in the front and top of your head can give the appearance of more hair,” said Marcus.

“This technique will add color which will look like thicker hair. You want to be careful not to use too much as it can end up looking too fake, therefore start off slow and add more as needed.”

A coloring service could give your hair a bit of extra shine, color and volume. This, of course, is only if you want to change the color of your hair while adding texture to super-smooth strands.

More Tips for Your Best Hair Ever

Keep in touch with us here at VEGAMOUR, your new partner in the battle against limp locks. Our staff of experts is hard at work to provide all the info you need on the VEGAMOUR Blog to finally get your hair to cooperate — and look stunning!

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Christina Ward

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Christina Ward

Christina M. Ward is a health, wellness, and clean beauty writer from the state of North Carolina where she spent 16 years as a hairdresser, colorist, and hair loss educator before returning to college to earn her BS in Environmental Science and writing. Christina’s passionate about wellness, clean beauty, hemp, naturally curly hair, women’s empowerment, self-care, and the natural, beautiful process of aging. She has written for Asé Pure Naturals, Today’s Health Science, the Village Voice out of New York, OK! Magazine, and LA Weekly.

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The TLC5927QPWPRQ1 is designed for LED displays and LED lighting applications with open-load, shorted-load, and overtemperature detection, and constant-current control. The TLC5927QPWPRQ1 contains a 16-bit shift register and data latches, which convert serial input data into parallel output format. At the TLC5927QPWPRQ1 output stage, 16 regulated- current ports provide uniform and constant current for driving LEDs within a wide range of VF (Forward Voltage) variations.

The TLC592x-Q1 Constant-Current LED Sink Drivers is designed to work alone or cascaded. Because each output is independently controlled, they can be programmed to be on or off by the user. The high LED voltage (VLED) allows for the use of a single LED per output or multiple LEDs on a single string.With independently controlled outputs supplied with constant current, the LEDs can be combined in

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TLC5927QPWPRQ1 Texas Instrument Electronic Components Features

Type

Main product features

TLC5927QPWPRQ1

Qualified for Automotive Applications

16 Constant-Current Output Channels

Output Current Adjusted By External Resistor

30-MHz Clock Frequency

Product Applications

General LED Lighting Applications

LED Display Systems

LED Signage

Automotive LED Lighting

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