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.
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Date: 2003-10-06 10:30 am (UTC)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.