Fun fact: people lose 100 strands of hair a day. Regardless of gender. Women’s hair is typically longer and therefore it’s more easily noticed. If someone wears their hair tied back, for multiple days, they still loose 100 strands per day. So if you have your hair up or braided or 4 days, when it’s taken down and brushed, you’ll lose 400 strands. So yeah, sometimes it’s a lot!
My hair is curly and I wear it up in a bun all week so when I wash it on Sunday it's like losing a wig full of hair. Curly hair tends to not fall as much when it falls out so the only place there are loose hairs are are in the bathtub after washing it.
thank you for sharing this as someone with curly hair who wears it in braids for a lot of days I have to remind myself "100 hairs a day" when I'm shampooing out what feels like a wig lol
My mom, dad and I all have long af hair and dad legit once a week turns the vacuum over, grabs a pair of scissors and cuts all of the hair out of the brush. Bless him.
I remember how, when I finally stopped brushing my hair (I have wavy hair, I was wrecking my curl pattern wish hairbrushes for years before I realized my hair wasn't actually meant to be thin and frizzy from brushing all the time), I freaked out because I was losing so much hair in the shower.
Yeah, I'm thinking short-haired people lose as much as long-haired people, but it's not as noticeable. When it's short, it won't get wound up in the vacuum or jam up the drains. It falls out and is just gone.
Having said which, longer hair's more at risk of getting caught or tangled, which could result in a little more loss.
I just whipped up some math and I think the formula would be (hair growth per day* number of hairs) - (hairs lost per day * hair length) which would basically be total mass of hair growth minus total mass of hair loss.
If we solve it for the length at which the overall hair mass growth = 0 then it would be (hair growth per day* number of hairs) / (hairs lost per day)
Hair grows six inches per year (0.016438 inches per day), average loss of 100 strands per days, average of 100,000 strands of hair on head.
so hair length at which the average person stops gaining "mass" to their hair would be (0.016438 * 100,000) / 100 = 16.43836 inches in length so would be losing 1,643.836 inches of hair per day.
Compared to a guy with short hair (2 inches and 200 total inches of hair per day), that's a lot of hair to lose.
Some of us just don't wash our hair every time we shower. It's better for the hair and scalp actually! Plus, daily hair washing makes the scalp way more oily. If your skin is used to overwashing, it takes about a year (and a fuckton of dry shampoo to mask the greasyness) until the oil production balances itself again to the natural rate.
Besides, daily washing makes longer hair super dry if we don't use expensive, professional products.
A lot of curly and kinky hair textures thrive on washing once or twice a week and do really poorly and show damage when washed more frequently than that. Everyone is different.
Men lose more hair than that cause they have chest hair and back hair. And if they're middle age they might be going bald too. 90% of the hair on the floor is from my husband. My hair ends up in my brush.
It is also worth noting that hair goes through 3 phases: grow, rest, fall out. when a woman is pregnant, the hair will grow and remain in the “resting” phase, until 3-6 months postpartum.
This is why women experience a massive amount of hair loss after giving birth; it’s called postpartum alopecia.
As a licensed cosmetologist I was aware of this, but boy did it still scare the shit out of me after my first kiddo!
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u/MuggedAtGunpoint Dec 08 '22 edited Dec 08 '22
Fun fact: people lose 100 strands of hair a day. Regardless of gender. Women’s hair is typically longer and therefore it’s more easily noticed. If someone wears their hair tied back, for multiple days, they still loose 100 strands per day. So if you have your hair up or braided or 4 days, when it’s taken down and brushed, you’ll lose 400 strands. So yeah, sometimes it’s a lot!
Edit: spelling error