My hair is longer
Dec. 25th, 2020 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujI noticed a year or so ago that my hair seem to be longer than it had been before that. I last cut it in 1993, when I had about 8 inches whacked off, thinking that it would grow longer because I had removed the split ends. But, this didn't actually happen, and it settled at a slightly shorter length where it remained for the next two decades.
Maybe menopause is good for hair? You wouldn't think so – the tradition is that old women have thin hair.
Anyway, I've been encouraging hair growth by braiding it more, rather than just sticking it in a ponytail. This does two things: keeps it from flying around and getting tangled and breaking during later brushing, and also the hair tie ends up in a slightly different place each time, so it reduces the breaking at a single place. And, it seems like it's grown another inch. It's a little hard to tell, because the ends are kind of ragged. Who woulda thunk?
Sometimes I'm a little concerned that if something is growing quickly in your body, something else might be growing quickly in your body that you don't want. Let's hope it's not that.
Maybe menopause is good for hair? You wouldn't think so – the tradition is that old women have thin hair.
Anyway, I've been encouraging hair growth by braiding it more, rather than just sticking it in a ponytail. This does two things: keeps it from flying around and getting tangled and breaking during later brushing, and also the hair tie ends up in a slightly different place each time, so it reduces the breaking at a single place. And, it seems like it's grown another inch. It's a little hard to tell, because the ends are kind of ragged. Who woulda thunk?
Sometimes I'm a little concerned that if something is growing quickly in your body, something else might be growing quickly in your body that you don't want. Let's hope it's not that.
