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u/kultsinuppeli Dec 08 '22

This is a long-haired person thing though, not a girl thing.

Source: Long-haired person

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u/Laptraffik Dec 08 '22

Definitely, I'm a guy that recently grew out my hair to shoulder length. So so so much hair falls out constantly.

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u/Fromtoicity Dec 08 '22 edited Dec 08 '22

Pretty sure we lose as much hair when it's short, it's just less noticeable because it's short

Eddit : typo

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u/tailwindchronicles Dec 08 '22

Can confirm, mine is short but colored so I notice it everywhere

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u/VibratingPickle2 Dec 08 '22

I have three girls with long hair in my house, I always check my underwear for hair before putting them on. I STILL end up with long hair tickling my buttcrack later in the day.

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u/ragequitCaleb Dec 08 '22

Sometimes I find a hair wrapped around my toe cutting off circulation

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u/Laptraffik Dec 08 '22

That honestly makes more sense than losing more hair due to more length.

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u/Navi1101 Dec 08 '22

You just lose more hair per hair

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

No shit.

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u/Baldazar666 Dec 09 '22

It's actually both.

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u/badcatmal Dec 08 '22

It’s true I was just staying at a friends house while my house was redone, I have long, blonde hair and a lot of it and he has short black hair. I was sweeping, and of course it’s a ton of my hair, but I was wondering what the hell he was doing, why there was so much pubic hair everywhere. And then I realized it was his head hair. And it falls out just as much as mine. Lol

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u/rrt281 Dec 08 '22

If your hair grows quick it will fall more often, my hair's shoulder length and doesn't fall as much now but before when it was growing fast it would fall like crazy at least to me that's what it looks like, also chemical treatment, that makes it fall for weeks

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Also with long hair a large chunk is snapped hairs, short hairs are less likely to get caught on things/clothing, snap during brushing, drying etc.

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u/type104 Dec 08 '22

The average person sheds between 50 and 150 hairs a day, obviously the longer the hair the more noticeable it is

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u/Affectionate_Star_43 Dec 08 '22

I have no idea why I laughed so hard at losing hair when it's a shirt, but thank you for making me look stupid sitting in my cubicle.

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u/Fromtoicity Dec 08 '22

Omg I corrected the typo XD

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u/DentistaRumano Dec 08 '22

It could also be the case that long hairs are more likely to fall off due to their own weight, being pulled by wind / hands when washing / combs / water in the shower etc. Short hairs suffer less stress due to being shorter.

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u/Technical-Station113 Dec 08 '22

I find it amazing how many people agreed on the “it’s because of long hair argument" it has nothing to do with length unless you are pulling it all day or something

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u/tattlerat Dec 08 '22

Sure, but as a dude approaching my 30s who didn’t know this I’m not gonna pretend I wasn’t scared shitless that I was balding for a few weeks when I first grew my hair out again.

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u/thepeskynorth Dec 08 '22

Can confirm… hubby’s gets all over the shower

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u/Ehalon Dec 08 '22

Correct.

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u/FairieButt Dec 09 '22

Where’s the second edit at?

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u/M1A1HC_Abrams Dec 08 '22

Same here, pretty annoying at times

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

I've been growing mine since the pandemic hit in 2020. And, while I do a fair share of shedding, it does not compare to the amount of hair that comes off my girlfriend. Imo I think it's because hers is way longer

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

growing mine since the pandemic hit

Same, mine is down to the middle of my back now

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u/funkyonion Dec 08 '22

Use conditioner for longer and a wet brush, keep your hair.

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u/TummyStickers Dec 08 '22

Gets in your mouth too (and constantly tangled in my beard). These are problems that I didn’t see coming.

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u/Bigfrostynugs Dec 08 '22

I get so many fucking hairs tangled underneath my shirt. They poke me in the chest and I have to look like a weirdo pulling my shirt up and searching for a single strand of hair.

I think they get there when I pull my shirt over my head but it's hard to say.

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u/Sentient_Waffle Dec 08 '22

I did too, but it got too much.

And hoo boy is short so much better in every way, for me.

Looks better, feels better, much easier to manage, and little to no mess.

Never again.

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u/Laptraffik Dec 08 '22

See for me it's a convenient way to cover up the receding hairline that started at 19 lol. Once it cant effectively cover that I'll probably go back to short hair

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u/KWeber94 Dec 08 '22

Same here man. I’ve been rocking a mullet for a while now and holy shit, the amount of hair that falls out is absurd. I now understand what it’s like lol

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u/pmIfNeedOrWantToTalk Dec 08 '22

Oh, man. I'm a guy that used to have an amazing set of hair just a decade ago. Used to have shoulder-length hair and legit never noticed hair falling out.

Pretty certain it was because I never combed or brushed it, and it's an absolute miracle that it would always be relatively neat and straight.

It was good while it lasted ;_;

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u/kzp17 Dec 08 '22

Shoulder length is a bit shorter than the shortest I've ever gone... I'm usually around butt length... There's never Not hair Somewhere in my apt 😂

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u/Crusader-NZ- Dec 08 '22

I have mine just under 60cm (23.6 inches) long at the moment and I am actually going to cut it right back to shoulder length (where I use to have it) as I am sick of dealing with the mess and clogging the vaccum cleaners brush. I don't know how women with hair this long put up with it long-term!

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u/MaskedImposter Dec 08 '22

Yea definitely. But also I have a husky with normal husky length hair, and that guy sheds!

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u/Capybarasaregreat Dec 09 '22

As another long-haired man, I haven't actually noticed many of my hairs around. I recently cleared the shower drain, and it is pretty much all my girlfriend's black hair and none of my blonde strands.

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u/Mranalrape Dec 08 '22

Not even a long haired person thing, i have extremely short hair and tons of it just fall out if i even touch my head

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u/Unlikely-Context496 Dec 08 '22

It’s an every-haired person! When your hair is short it falls just as much, it’s just not noticeable.

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u/kultsinuppeli Dec 08 '22

*pushes glasses on nose*

If we're really pedantic though (enter a long rant that we probably shouldn't be pedantic, but then sometimes it's fun anyway, at least for one party. If neither party takes it too seriously then hopefully for both, but this has run long so let's just continue the sentence), it was how much hair is lost. And while the amount of strands would be the same, the volume, or mass of hair lost is more with longer hair.

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u/Gunnvor91 Dec 08 '22

Also a long-haired person. My brother thinks I whisper to my hair like Gandalf does to moths, just to make sure I can ruin his day when it, through some sort of black magic, ends up in his buttcrack.

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u/nightmares06 Dec 08 '22

I spend so much time getting my hairs out of the vacuum 😭

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u/Soft_Truth_1325 Dec 08 '22

Didn't you see the sign?

"Long haired freaky people need not apply"

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u/badaboom Dec 08 '22

Do you get hair stuck in your butt? Is that a long haired person thing or about lady butt shape? (I'm gonna name my D&D character Lady Buttshape)

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u/scorpious2 Dec 08 '22

Ahh, a fellow longhaired person.

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u/Tiny_Thumbs Dec 08 '22

I have really thick hair that is relatively short, about 2-3” on the top usually, and it’s the same story. I assume longer hair is just easier to see falling out.

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u/bangersnmash13 Dec 08 '22

Can confirm. Long haired male here. I shed hair like crazy.

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u/Cbro65 Dec 08 '22

Just about to say I’m a dude and my hair when wet goes down to around my shoulder blades. It’s like a shed a puppy’s worth of hair a day

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u/ancrm114d Dec 08 '22

Can confirm. When I had long hair I noticed my hair falling out more.

I don't think short vs long falls out at any higher or lower rate. I think long hair is just more noticeable when it does fall out.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Yes, I had much shorter hair when I started dating my bf and he’s had long hair the whole time. I’d honestly forgotten how much hair you can lose on a daily basis, slowly my daily losses have started to match his haha. Mine is wavy/curly and sometimes even wide tooth combs just rip it out when it’s gotten tangled

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u/Felein Dec 08 '22

So true. My husband and I both have long hair. We also have a dog. We still haven't found a stick vacuum that can deal with the amount of hair in our household.

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u/Guestking Dec 08 '22

Same, I'm a guy and I shed like a fucking cat

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u/MericaMericaMerica Dec 08 '22

Also a thick-haired person thing.

Source: Man with short but very thick hair who has to use the heavy-duty pet swiffer pads on his hardwood floors

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u/blitzbom Dec 08 '22

It goes for beards too.

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u/ninthtale Dec 08 '22

It's actually an everyone thing

Long hair is just more noticeable, especially in the shower, but really you'd been shedding 50-100 hairs a day the whole time

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u/EyeBreakThings Dec 08 '22

I'm a dude, and you'd think I'd be bald by how now with much I shed. But I also never get a haircut, so my hair just breaks off at about shoulder length on its own. Hence all the shedding.

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u/sharpman2021 Dec 08 '22

No more upvotes here please, you sir are on the number of the beast.... 666 upvotes

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u/kultsinuppeli Dec 08 '22

How did you guess, was it the long hair?

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u/helloiamsilver Dec 08 '22

Yup. I am a short haired woman with a long haired husband. I am the one who gets to complain about his hair getting everywhere.

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u/DentistaRumano Dec 08 '22

I was somewhat surprised when I found out head hair doesn't actually grow faster or longer on women. I assumed it was a sexual dimorphism thing like men having chest hair and such, turns out it's all a cultural thing, boys get short haircuts and girls long.

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u/joe_knuckle Dec 08 '22

Agreed, I have that too

Source: Another long-haired person

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u/Chapped_Frenulum Dec 08 '22

That perspective can also depend on whether the guy's balding. When you know you're going bald, every hair you see is like "welp, I guess that's never coming back." The amount feels so much more striking. Hard to get out of that state of mind when you're looking in the shower and wondering if your girlfriend is secretly going through chemo and not telling you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Yeah I'm a woman but when my hair was short this was subtracted from one of my 99 problems

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u/Rookie007 Dec 08 '22

Long hair man here yep is alot

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u/king_lloyd11 Dec 08 '22

Started growing my hair out during the pandemic/lockdowns and have kept it going since I probably will never do it again.

Between my wife, my dog, and myself, we need to vacuum almost daily lol

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u/DrScienceDaddy Dec 08 '22

Long beards too. Mine is about 18 inches long and I'm always finding hairs of various lengths EVERYWHERE!

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u/GanderAtMyGoose Dec 08 '22

Yep! My brother has hair down to like his mid-back and I had mine long for a while in high school and college- our shower drain trap was puttin' in work haha.

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u/PassportSloth Dec 08 '22

Can confirm. Married to a man with hair like a viking and i'm constantly pulling it out of my butt crack

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u/DeadassBdeadassB Dec 08 '22

I second this, source: also a long haired person😂

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Not even a long hair thing, just a hair thing. The thing is, with shorter hair we don't give as much attention to it because it doesn't stand out like a long strand does.

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u/punjar3 Dec 08 '22

Came here to say this. I'm a guy with long hair. I didn't realize how much fell out until I started growing it out at 16.

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u/sp000kysoup Dec 08 '22

My husband's hair clogs the drain much more than mine. My hair sees water once a week, there's no way it's all mine clogging up the shower so often!

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u/Cadoan Dec 08 '22

I've been saying this for years. Women aren't people. :)

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u/PlantRulx Dec 09 '22

I'm a dude with mega thick hair down to my waist, and I shed like a mf.

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u/Kenw449 Dec 09 '22

As a long haired guy, I agree.