POOFY HAIR

You walk across the rug, reach for the doorknob and……….ZAP!!! You get a static shock. Or, you come inside from the cold, pull off your hat and……BOING!!! Static hair, that static electricity makes your hair stand straight out from your head. What is going on here? When your hair receives a charge of static electricity, it loses its normal smoothness as the charged particles interact with the air around your head. Three factors can contribute to static charge in hair.  As you can see in this picture my hair is very poofy because of the static electricity.  I was in a very dry environment causing static charges can build up on objects more easily because the electricity has no path through which to travel. In moister environments, it would simply disperse through the air and not build up. Static electricity, by its nature, does not flow until given a path. The static charges in your hair, for instance, would normally flow through the water particles surrounding your head.