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Hair loss and age

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

When I was young and all so wild, my hair used to grow in long and luxurious strands.It was very thick and usually had a lot of oil in it as well as dandruff.  I lived in Ohio for ten years while my hair grew very well and I was very young.  The hair had a certain smell that was repugnant to some of my close friends, but shampoo helped it a little.  My hair changed with time especially in patterns of growth.I used to have a swirl on the top that was very small.  When I moved to Ohio and then to Arizona, my hair is getting thinner and balding in spots. My hair is shorter in the front and thicker in the back.  I was wondering if this was due to the dryness of the weather in Arizona.  My hair is less oily and it is drier, but less dandruff and less smell.  I am about 49 years old and I was curious if this is due to age or climate. My father used to have very nice hair and my mother did too when they were middle age. So I don’t believe it is genetics.

So my issues are why is my hair getting thinner and less smelly?

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Losing Hair By Dying It

Monday, July 6th, 2009

It was more of a scare tactic than anything, because at the time I was dying my hair about every month, sometimes twice because the hair-dye for whatever reason didn’t get it all the first time.  I was going through different colors, sometimes sticking to the same color for a few months at a time, and I was really damaging my hair.  My dad first went on the crusade of you’re not allowed to dye your hair.  That doesn’t work with a 12 year old let alone a 14 years old that I was.  So he gave up on that one after a few tries and moved onto the scare tactic, which was actually quite effective. 

One day he brought up a fact actually, but still.  His best friend at the time had a kid of his own who was doing the same thing I was doing.  Except in her case, apparently my hair was more resilient, because after just a few months of doing this, her hair had actually started to fall out in clumps, at which time she of course stopped.  My hair was fried.  But at some point, it would’ve had the same problem.  So this I bring up in the interest of things.  Depending on the fragility of your hair in general, just remember not to dye it too often.  Definitely don’t go twice in one month, wait a month or two in between, etc.

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