random, wiry hairs - what is happening to my head?
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Anonymous
| My hair has always been mostly fine, thick and fairly shiny. My natural color is light brown; only one or two grays that I know of. It dries in ringlets but after a day in braids or a bun (in the absence of humidity) it's wavy and hangs nicely. It straightens easily with a blowdryer - I only dry my bangs, everything else air dries. But lately I've been finding these coarse, wiry dark hairs interspersed around my head, and my bangs do not dry nice and smooth as usual. Is this (a) aging (I am 39); (b) a precursor to grayness; and/or (c) hormonal (I had a late-term pregnancy loss six months ago, so my body thinks I gave birth and my hair has been falling out a lot)? |
Anonymous
| Yep, aging. Welcome! |
Anonymous
| Age |
Anonymous
| welcome to aging. |
Anonymous
| Like pubes? |
Anonymous
Yeah, kind of. |
Anonymous
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PP here, does anybody have a solution for this? Any products you use in particular? I have colleagues the same age as me (mid 40s) but I feel like my wiry hair situation is way worse than colleagues of my same age. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong when I'm drying it or if there's something I can put in it to help.
Currently I use an anti-frizz serum and then some light hairspray. Seems to disappear by noon. |
Anonymous
| All of the above. |
Anonymous
| It's the precursor to grayness, I'm sorry to say. I have fine hair too, and it gets worse, as you have the new coarse hair battling to coexist with the fine hair. You'll go through years where you seem to have perma-bedhead. Enjoy! |
Anonymous
OP here - so should I keep it long (it's halfway down my back now) or start going shorter...? What is most manageable? |
Anonymous
For me, I find the "wiries" do better when my hair is long - but I have heavy hair, so it seems to weigh them down. |