Does anyone understand why you get more shrinkage as your hair grows???

[tinkat]

I have been trying to understand why. I even tried to search threads and it seems other ladies here have been wondering the same thing by looking at certain threads. I love my shrinkage but I just curious.

 

[It~Can~Grow]

It's kind of funny, but I think it's like a telephone cord...you know...it's like the coils in the cord shrink the length of the entire cord even if the bottom has been straigthened.

The coils or loop pull at the length of the hair in forming the loop. You have 2 inches of hair, but when you create a loop with the same two inches it now looks like an inch erplexed because it's now a circle instead of a line.

Come on someone else - help me out with my example

 

[LongHairDreams]

It's kind of funny, but I think it's like a telephone cord...you know...it's like the coils in the cord shrink the length of the entire cord even if the bottom has been straigthened.

The coils or loop pull at the length of the hair in forming the loop. You have 2 inches of hair, but when you create a loop with the same two inches it now looks like an inch erplexed because it's now a circle instead of a line.

Come someone else - help me out with my example

co-signing. You gave a good example. If you take 2 phone cords (the same length), and coil 1 of them, the coiled will appear to be shorter....thus...shrinkage.

 

[cmesweet]

Ummm your examples are good, but it doesn't explain why it shrinks even more the longer the cord is.

I've been wondering the same thing. When my hair was short it shrunk to about 1 inch. Now that it is longer it looks even shorter when it shrinks.

 

[tinkat]

It's kind of funny, but I think it's like a telephone cord...you know...it's like the coils in the cord shrink the length of the entire cord even if the bottom has been straigthened.

The coils or loop pull at the length of the hair in forming the loop. You have 2 inches of hair, but when you create a loop with the same two inches it now looks like an inch erplexed because it's now a circle instead of a line.

Come on someone else - help me out with my example

Thanks. Thats a good example

 

[aloof one]

THe more your hair comes in, the more curls come in. Every new curl pulls your hair toward the scalp--- so the more curls, the more shrinkage.

This is why people with curly hair who cut their hair short look like they have a looser texture, but as they grow their hair out, it gets curlier and curlier. (An example is how white boys have short hair they all look like its straight, then one day they grow it out and it starts to wave automatically)

 

[glamazon386]

THe more your hair comes in, the more curls come in. Every new curl pulls your hair toward the scalp--- so the more curls, the more shrinkage.

This is why people with curly hair who cut their hair short look like they have a looser texture, but as they grow their hair out, it gets curlier and curlier. (An example is how white boys have short hair they all look like its straight, then one day they grow it out and it starts to wave automatically)

Al00fone has a point. One of my exes hair does that. It looks straight if he cuts it short. I've noticed my hair has gotten curlier as time has passed but I haven't noticed more shrinkage.

 

[tinkat]

Yes al00fone, great point! I never thought about it like that.

 

[anon123]

I think for the curly haired people who cut their hair short and it looks straight, it's because their curls are big. Like, a big curl, say, takes a couple of inches to go a full rotation. That's the other part of curls no one talks about. They talk about the diameter as in whether it's pen spring or marker or whatever, but they don't talk about the length it takes for a full rotation. If your hair takes an inch or two to make a full rotation, when your hair is shorter than that, it will just look closer to straight. So the more length you have, the more curls that can be made and thus the more your hair shrinks.

As for me, I haven't noticed that my hair shrinks more the longer it gets. My kinks and coils are so tiny that it hardly seems to matter. For some people I know it's definitely not true that that happens and their curls turn to waves as it gets longer.

 

[hopeful]

My hair isn't shrinking more as it gets longer. I'm curious why some of us are getting more shrinkage and others not. My hair never shrank to an inch though either. Mine has always shrunk around 50%.

 

[aloof one]

yea like bmore said... i think it is the size and shape of the curl.

I think as it gets longer from a short cut it does shrink a little more because the curls... but after it gets to a length it should hang more. My NG comes in straight, then waves, and after it gets past like a cm long it starts to shrink because there's a whole curl in. then after a few curls it starts to hang down and has less shrinkage.

Its like when you straighten out a slinky then curl it back up.erplexed Well not really lol...

Oh well... lol I still think shrinkage is pretty cool regardless of how it happens

 

[cmesweet]

I don't know, mine seem to shrink more.

Also, my hair doesn't wave up. It actually becomes straight as if I ad pressed or blown it out, when I remove my stocking band.

 

[Poohbear]

My shrinkage has remained the same as my hair has gotten longer. It seems like more shrinkage, but it's really the same. I think it's because people say that you're hair will loosen or start to hang once it gets longer, and when you see it doesn't happen with your hair, you think you just have more shrinkage. I don't know, just a thought.

 

[EMJazzy]

My shrinkage has remained the same as my hair has gotten longer. It seems like more shrinkage, but it's really the same. I think it's because people say that you're hair will loosen or start to hang once it gets longer, and when you see it doesn't happen with your hair, you think you just have more shrinkage. I don't know, just a thought.

You just nailed it for me.....your description is EXACTLY what's going on with my hair.