My hair

[dmaze]

I decided to actually brush my hair, for once, and braid it. The braid came out reasonably, too. This makes me marginally happy. (Back in the day, other people would play with my hair too, but now it seems to be a more solitary effort.) I'm not quite clear how it is that every time I wash or brush my hair, I get a reasonably large handful of loose hair, but still seem to be doing okay on keeping my head covered; I won't complain.

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[gkjfdh.livejournal.com]

every week or two i have to cut a decent chunk of hair out of my hair brush, but i don't seem to be thinning either, and it's been like this for years. hair must grow faster than it seems to.

[blk]

The average human head loses up to a hundred hairs a day. But most hair isn't weighty enough to actually fall when it deroots itself, because of ponytails, hairdos, and mostly, general hair-stickyness. So when you brush or wash your hair, run fingers through it, wear a hat, walk under low-hanging trees, fluff your hair, take off a shirt, etc, you are essentially pulling out hairs that have just Xed themselves, or are hanging on and would have been lost in the next clothing change. Washing and brushing just do more a more thorough job of touching all the hairs. You're not losing more hair, just losing it more at a time when you'll notice.

And, of course, when you have long hair, it takes fewer hairs to seem like a lot. Heck, a single strand of mine can ball up on my shirt and look like a whole cat, almost.

[dmaze]

I suspect that a consequence of individual hairs going through the dryer is these little flat round hairballs that wind up attached to things like sweaters. And I do wind up with these big dripping hairballs attached to the wall when I get out of the shower; I try to be good about moving them into the garbage. :-)