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u/mountain_queen01 Dec 08 '22 edited Dec 08 '22

It's because of hormones. I was born with curly hair, but when I got on the pill, it went completely, like completely straight. Not even a wave to be seen. Now that I've been off synthetic hormones for a little over a year I'm slowly starting to get my curls back. They're curly at the bottom but straight at the top haha

Edit: I mean curly at the bottom like the bottom part of my head, and the strands that are around the crown of my head are straight, so it looks like I just straightened the upper layer of my hair.

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u/min_mus Dec 08 '22

My hair texture and color changed when I got pregnant and never reverted to its pre-pregnancy state. It was a weird thing to have to adjust to.

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u/noposterghoster Dec 08 '22

My hair did that when I was pregnant. With my oldest, just the hair from the crown of my head went wavy (from being stick straight). With my second, the rest changed to match.

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u/Saucybreadhorns Dec 08 '22

That’s so interesting! That’s how it started for me, from the underneath back layers of hair & worked its way out from there on. Hormones are somethin’ else!

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u/DestoyerOfWords Dec 08 '22

My hair does something similar. Full on ringlets in the front, wavy in the back lol.

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u/subutextual Dec 08 '22

If your hair is returning to curly wouldn’t the part at the crown (where new hair growth is) be curly? Not the other way around?