is there really any help for perimenopausal hair?

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Anonymous wrote:the thing that has happened to my hair is that the front is just not growing...the back is. my layers in the front are the same length for two year.....

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Well I never had shiny blonde hair, but I cut mine shorter and treat it like curly hair now. I love the new texture - so much body and waves every day!

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Estrogen, spironolactone

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I have that issue as well. Always dyed my hair blond with a box, turned out great. Now the color does not take as well, bottom layers stay dark, the texture is worse and like straw.

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First, try taking iron and magnesium pills. Nutrafol is fine too. I think when you get older, your body doesn't absorb nutrients the way it used to so it helps to supplement. If that doesn't work, you can go to ro.co and order oral minoxidil. Finally, I recommend that all women take Metformin (order it easily online from here: https://agelessrx.com/) - a cheap anti-aging drug. Taking all three of these things has made my hair - which went limp, dishwater blond and thinning after children in my 30's shiny, fuller and thicker.

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Anonymous wrote:First, try taking iron and magnesium pills. Nutrafol is fine too. I think when you get older, your body doesn't absorb nutrients the way it used to so it helps to supplement. If that doesn't work, you can go to ro.co and order oral minoxidil. Finally, I recommend that all women take Metformin (order it easily online from here: https://agelessrx.com/) - a cheap anti-aging drug. Taking all three of these things has made my hair - which went limp, dishwater blond and thinning after children in my 30's shiny, fuller and thicker.

Is Mettormin safe to take for this?

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I am thinking of trying rosehip oil. here's one study about it's effectiveness.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10764223/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The wiry hairs are the grays. Mine has done the same. It's so depressing. I have no solution.

Does dying them, make them less wiry?

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Anonymous wrote:the thing that has happened to my hair is that the front is just not growing...the back is. my layers in the front are the same length for two year.....

I have this, too. It’s like two different heads of hair that can’t agree. And my hairline is getting sparser. And now with the humidity coming, it’ll puff out into a mushroom shape with a fine halo of little curlies. Ugh, it is the worst.

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Anonymous wrote:The wiry hairs are the grays. Mine has done the same. It's so depressing. I have no solution.

Does dying them, make them less wiry?

Unfortunately no. Just wiry and dyed. It doesn’t do anything to change the texture or make the hair lay down they just stay up there like crazy antennas

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Anonymous wrote:the thing that has happened to my hair is that the front is just not growing...the back is. my layers in the front are the same length for two year.....

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I cut my hair short to deal with this. It's actually been one of the best decisions ever. I have naturally curly hair, but I never wore it short. Now that I have it short, it's much easier to get it to curl with a curl cream, and also easier to avoid frizz. Even if I run my fingers through my hair (which I'd never do when it was long), the curls will just readjust, instead of becoming frizzy. I think because they curls themselves are so much shorter.

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Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with mourning the loss of your youth but referring to your former hair as beautiful simply it was blond and shiny (and not wiry) makes you sound racist OP.

You win the dumb comment of the day award.

DP. Didn't sound dumb to me -- I actually had the same thought.

Same, as a black woman with dark, wiry hair, it is just another day, another comment to remind myself that most white people think that the way my hair naturally grows out of my head is something awful to be dealt with and gotten rid of.

As someone with lifelong dark wavy/curly/frizzy/partially wiry hair. I am fully aware that many people "think that the way my hair naturally grows out of my head is something awful to be dealt with and gotten rid of". I don't care one lick. I have always liked my brown skin and crazy hair -- even as a young child growing up in the early 80's when Farrah Fawcett blonde hair was idealized. Not once have I envied the silky haired or blonde. Mom and the women in my family have always been 100% confident in their style of beauty, even when it fell outside of white societal norms. I am so grateful to them for instilling this in me.

To those with perimenopausal changes to hair -- I recommend that you try to stop fighting what your hair is trying to do. What used to work for you, will no longer work. You may need to transition to a darker color, or try a curly girl styling method, or try a different hair cut.

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Snake oil.

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Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with mourning the loss of your youth but referring to your former hair as beautiful simply it was blond and shiny (and not wiry) makes you sound racist OP.

What hit you upside the head this morning? Are you looking for ways to be offended?

I use Biolage hair products and water softener and that has made a lot of difference with texture, OP.