Pics of Scab Hair?

[RavenMaven]

Hello ladies,
I was wondering if any of you have any pictures of scab hair. I have read about it, and I want to see for my own two eyes what this stuff would actually look like. I have looked all over the forum and can only find posts talking about scab hair, but not showing.

Thanks in advance,
waitingtogrow

 

[guyanesesista]

I wanna see pics too. I'm about to cut mine off today anyway. I'm going out later to buy a new pair of scissors. I've been trying to put it off but it's getting annoying. A few months ago I cut off some scab hair from a section and that section is easy to comb and manageable so I'll finish the rest. The hair is very dry and split and aint no amount of moisture in the world gets it right.

So I'll try to post a pic of the hair but I doubt it will look distinct in any way.

 

[Irresistible]

yeah I dont think it will show up in some distinguishing way in pics

its more how it feels and acts/reacts

 

[Junebug D]

I am curious about this too. I never understood what scab hair was, even back in my days on NP I never saw what people were talking about with "scab hair" lol.

 

[DaPPeR]

Bumping..I'm curious to know what it is, and what it looks like.

 

[SouthernBeauty]

Bumping because I want to see too!

 

[SouthernTease]

Ew I hate that word scab hair.
I transitioned for almost a year and a half...
I don't know if it's visible,
it depends on your hair type texture...
it's not very different from what your natural hair will look like...
but you can check out my fotki
in my transitioning album. (link in siggy)

 

[loulou82]

I thought I had scab hair but with a LOT of DCing, protecting, and moisturizing my ends have made a 180. It doesn't "look" any different from the rest of the strand. It's the "feel" of the ends. The hair shaft is smooth until the last 1-2 inches. The ends feels rough and wiry but there aren't splits or knots. Iris is correct that it reacted differently too. It wouldn't absorb moisture the way the rest of the strand did. I refused to cut any more hair though and worked until they recovered.

 

[scoobygirl]

I've never seen any visual proof of what scab hair is supposed to look like or that it even exist. But I am beginning to think it might. I was natural until I was a teenager, and my natural hair was kinky 4a/b but it was soft and easy to moisturize. Now I am relaxed, but my new growth is often more difficult than I remember my natural hair being.

 

[discobiscuits]

there are two schools of thought on this subject. i am from: there is no such thing as scab hair. this is a term that is sometimes used to describe hair at the demarc, new growth, hair after chopping, et cetera. scab hair does not exist because one's natural hair pattern/type does not change with transitioning or chopping or other external traumas. can be affected negatively or positively because of medication, medical treatments, healthy/unhealthy nutrition, alopecia or other diseases. basically things that can affect the growth from the follicle. some ppl say that years of chemicals on the scalp can or will alter the follicle. i have yet to read something that scientifically or medically supports that but i can buy that explanation before others.

i've never experienced this phenomena called "scab hair".

just my opinion.


http://naturallyfamous.com/2008/01/07/scab-hair/

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/archive/index.php/t-237255.html

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/archive/index.php/t-65277.html

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/archive/index.php/t-42994.html

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/archive/index.php/t-123342.html

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showthread.php?t=167029

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/archive/index.php/t-65277.html

http://www.naturallycurly.com/curltalk/showthread.php?t=35737

http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/curly-q-a/ask-the-curl-expert-diane-da-costa-2

http://www.naani.com/Articles/artic...re-is-Changing-After-Transitioning/Page1.html

Photo from: http://brunsli.blogspot.com/2006/04/scab-hair.html

http://www.skinbiology.com/truthabouthairrelaxers.html

http://www.folligen.com/relaxers.html

http://www.hairlosswatch.com/folligen.htm

 

[Kay.Dee]

I thought I had scab hair around my hairline because of the way people were describing scab hair
after almost 8 months post chopping it's still growing in the same way. It's just extra nappy hair that needed more care.

 

[Ganjababy]

I wondered why my hair was soooooo rough and dry and looked a bit straight in places even though I had cut out the relaxer a few months after I had stopped relaxing last year! Now I know. Thanks everyone. I am just amazed at my new growth everday now. The scab hair is going, almost gone. I am 1 year relaxer free and it was very obvious at 4 months post relaxer when I did my first mini chop. However, even after I had cut all the relaxer bits off I was still having rough dry straight bits. With loads of deep conditioning (2-4 times weekly) my hair improved. The bits that did not improved I cut out.

 

[RavenMaven]

there are two schools of thought on this subject. i am from: there is no such thing as scab hair. this is a term that is sometimes used to describe hair at the demarc, new growth, hair after chopping, et cetera. scab hair does not exist because one's natural hair pattern/type does not change with transitioning or chopping or other external traumas. can be affected negatively or positively because of medication, medical treatments, healthy/unhealthy nutrition, alopecia or other diseases. basically things that can affect the growth from the follicle. some ppl say that years of chemicals on the scalp can or will alter the follicle. i have yet to read something that scientifically or medically supports that but i can buy that explanation before others.

i've never experienced this phenomena called "scab hair".

just my opinion.


http://naturallyfamous.com/2008/01/07/scab-hair/

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/archive/index.php/t-237255.html

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/archive/index.php/t-65277.html

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/archive/index.php/t-42994.html

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/archive/index.php/t-123342.html

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showthread.php?t=167029

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/archive/index.php/t-65277.html

http://www.naturallycurly.com/curltalk/showthread.php?t=35737

http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/curly-q-a/ask-the-curl-expert-diane-da-costa-2

http://www.naani.com/Articles/artic...re-is-Changing-After-Transitioning/Page1.html

Photo from: http://brunsli.blogspot.com/2006/04/scab-hair.html

http://www.skinbiology.com/truthabouthairrelaxers.html

http://www.folligen.com/relaxers.html

http://www.hairlosswatch.com/folligen.htm

thank you for all of this information!

 

[anilove]

great thread

 

[Tamrin]

Now I know what is in my crown. I have this dry patch that never goes away. It has no texture, just frizzy and dry no matter how much I moisturized and DC. I have 6 months of New growth there. However this area i shorter than any part of my head.

 

[SignatureBeauty]

I had scab hair and for some it does exist and for some it don't, When you have been relaxing for so long for some it may take awhile for their real texture to grow out, when I first went natural it took about 7-8 months before my hair started getting softer, I guess it is just really dry, rough hair that don't hold moisture, There is no picture of scab hair, it is just very dry rough hair, some people just have dry hair and it may just be like that and some of us don't. Then you have to spritz it like every few hours to keep it moist and then you get frustrated because it don't hold any moisture, But as it grows out you will notice a difference. Again, this don't happen to everyone's hair!
It is just another hair term.

 

[guyanesesista]

I wanna see pics too. I'm about to cut mine off today anyway. I'm going out later to buy a new pair of scissors. I've been trying to put it off but it's getting annoying. A few months ago I cut off some scab hair from a section and that section is easy to comb and manageable so I'll finish the rest. The hair is very dry and split and aint no amount of moisture in the world gets it right.

So I'll try to post a pic of the hair but I doubt it will look distinct in any way.

Here's a pic of the hair I cut off. As I said, no distinct difference.
http://public.fotki.com/Guyanesesista/scab-hair/

 

[lila_baby]

Now I know what is in my crown. I have this dry patch that never goes away. It has no texture, just frizzy and dry no matter how much I moisturized and DC. I have 6 months of New growth there. However this area i shorter than any part of my head.

YOU AND ME BOTH! and what's worth it matts! I have wondering what's

with this sh*t! I also think I have scab hair at the hair line because I have

one little patch that does not frizz and forms one or 2 pretty coils but the

rest-forget it like burnt wool! I am inclined to believe this scab hair stuff

because before when I first started relaxing I would only do it 3 times a

year and I never had problem with the NG as such- sure I hated it and it

made my hair puffy but it was my ends that were shot up and frizzing and

breaking not the NG. after I started perming once a month that 12

relaxers a year that's when all this scab hair began! whether or not it

makes sense or whether it has scientific backing I believe that I right now

have scab hair

 

[StarFish106]

Now I know what is in my crown. I have this dry patch that never goes away. It has no texture, just frizzy and dry no matter how much I moisturized and DC. I have 6 months of New growth there. However this area i shorter than any part of my head.

Are you talking about the hair on the side of my head? I did have a picture of what I thought may be scab hair and it looks no different than the rest but it is shorter, rougher than the rest of my hair. I have babied it, dc, everything but nothing helps. And this came up during my 15 week relaxer stretch. It was fine one day and then the next time it just got extra..it makes me because I do not know what else I can to get it calm down like the rest of my hair.