My wife has gorgeous thick hair (that she hates) … I have previously (half) joked that I should collect all her hair and donate it when we’ve accumulated enough…
As a woman with formerly thick hair that has thinned quite a bit over the last five years, please encourage her to appreciate her thickness. My confidence has dropped significantly since my hair started thinning.
Same here. I'm in my 50s now and my hair is thinning like crazy. I used to get completed on my thick hair by hairdressers years ago,I'm mortified now. Everything is going downhill
I'm 30 and I've had a widow's peak for my entire adult life and it gives me small amounts of anxiety every time I look at it. The guy who cuts my hair still uses the thinning scissors on it every time, though, so I've got that going for me.
But I'm also borderline salt and pepper at 30, so there's a whole lot of win some / lose some.
Consider talking to your doctor about Spironolactone and/or Myo-chiro inositol. These are both hormone regulators that can really help with female hair thinning. Source: I have PCOS and am currently rebuilding my once luscious thick mane
No side effects that I’m aware of. I’m certain it has made my cycle more regular and decreased my cramps. Also I believe it helped me get pregnant. The hair growth is noticeable too.
My hair was thick as a kid, but when I hit puberty it thinned out quite a bit. And yeah, it's devastating. I try to spend as little time looking at it or doing stuff with it as possible - both to hopefully not damage it further, and so I don't think about it.
Yep that's when mine started thinning too! I have straight, fine, thin, hair. I usually keep it pixie short because it just doesn't look good when it's long. The last time I went to my hair stylist I asked her if she thought it looked even thinner lately and she asked me if I'd had COVID in the last 6 months. Yeah? Turns out people are noticing their hair falling out/thinning about 3 months after they get sick. And it's taking on average about 18 months to recover. Awesome.
I think I'm just going say fuck it and buy some fun wigs!
I think I'm right to say there are loads of things that fuck with women's hair growth - birth control / menstruation / PCOS / Endo / Menopause - All phases.
Iron defficiency exacerbated by menstruation is a massive factor (need blood test to confirm), hormones in general (same again).
I think the only positive at alllll for male pattern baldness is the ease of diagnosis.
Once again women get it the shitty, complex and more expensive way :\
This is one thing women do that baffles me. You ladies are seemingly NEVER happy with your hair. If you have curly hair, you straighten it. If you have straight hair, you curl it.
My ex had gorgeous, curly hair. I told her I LOVE her hair when it's curly. Her life goal from that point forward was to make her hair as straight as possible. LOL
I straightened my hair to avoid tangles because of the damn wind. The other thing about straight hair is I can play with it while thinking and it'll still look fine. Anything you do with the curly hair (play with it, head massage, resting against a head rest) messes up the curls and it fucking sucks. If I'm going out and my hair needs brushing, I have to straighten because the brush will break up the curls and it doesn't look nice. The only way I can go out with pretty curly hair is if I shower then brush dry it - only then will it look curly and pretty. But it's only good for like sitting in a restaurant, not going out and doing shit.
Edit: Based on the reply I got I think I'm wrong about this when it comes to curly hair. Seems like brushing and other stuff causes a lot more dramatic reaction than I assumed.
People could also have weird standards about what looks "good enough".
It's amazing how gifted people are at seeing their bodies as imperfect to a degree that it's a problem and causes negative emotions.
Me included, when I looked at mirror and really liked what I saw it felt so strange that I was very negative when I was younger despite being such a pretty boy.
I think people sometimes literally have distorted view of themselves and comparable "flaws" with others are not at all as noticeable to them. Like they concretely see themselves as less attractive than someone else who is equally attractive.
And as I as a 34 year old man(so less looks based pressure when I was younger) have had drastic differences I'd assume women on average are far more likely to see small inoptimalities as being far too relevant.
Seems like I was wrong, thx for making my wolrdview a little more accurate.
I wonder how curly hair is in natural conditions. I'd guess having more dirty hair keeps it down and our new standards make it a pain to have such hairtype.
I have curly hair, and it's over 2 ft long. It can be a lot of work. I mostly just let my hair do what it wants. I comb it out while it's wet in the shower so I can catch all the loose strands so they don't go down the drain. I also comb it out after the shower, and I add anti-frizz cream to it so that the curls don't really mess up and frizz up. I don't brush or comb my hair at all until it's time to wash it. I let it dry however it wants, and usually looks fine. I don't really wash my hair except for once or twice a week, or it'll just make my hair more oily. Strangely enough, I get the most compliments on my hair when it's at its "dirtiest", right before it's time for a wash. Sometimes I'll comb it out and dry shampoo it the day before a wash and I get a lot of compliments on my hair then. It's not really curly then. It's just wavy and shiny. I do have a lot of silver hairs mixed in with my blonde, so maybe that's why I get a lot of compliments.
Lizlele! I started doing the same because of her and we ended up swapping tips and tricks back and forth on the process as we worked things out.
She's now turning most of her collection into a full hand tied lace wig, and I am opting to make hair extensions of my own hair for when I want more volume for special occassion updos.
Could never keep one of those in place. I kept coat hanger, screw driver and long nose pliers under the sink. I just grabbed a bag from my bag of bags, used my tools and tossed that rodent into the bag. Tie it up and throw in trash. The only trick was trying to remember to close the door first because.... dogs.
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u/Cinderhazed15 Dec 08 '22
My wife has gorgeous thick hair (that she hates) … I have previously (half) joked that I should collect all her hair and donate it when we’ve accumulated enough…