Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Good question...
I'm not sure. If I cut my hair back to BSL I'm sure it will grow back to WL. I'm about 1/2 inch from tailbone. My guess is that TBL is probably my terminal length.
BostonMaria
I agree. It will grow back but not bluntly right? You have different strands leading the pact until you reach full WL, right? I know we can't see the length of all 100,000 strands at one time but I think those cut bsl will shed before they reach wsl or hl. jmho
@BostonMaria
I agree. It will grow back but not bluntly right? You have different strands leading the pact until you reach full WL, right? I know we can't see the length of all 100,000 strands at one time but I think those cut bsl will shed before they reach wsl or hl. jmho
All I know is one side of my head grows faster then the other and always has, trust it isn't breakage! Has happened all my life. I think I will start getting lop sided hair cuts![]()
Well I'm not sure what ppl call lead hairs or if they even exist BUT as u can see in my SIGGIE, my Aug pic clearly had strands longer than others and then my Dec pic, it seems to be all even again. No I did not trim.
Anyway back on the subj, I read somewhere that your entire head will not hit terminal length to be noticable, only about 15% of your hair. While the other 85% is still growing. Besides I also read terminal length only lasts about 2 to 3 weeks and starts the cycle of growing all over again. Sometimes those strands that were in terminal length will have shed & other times they stay intact until the growth cycle starts all over again. Nobody's terminal length is BSL nor will ALL your strands remain at BSL together PLUS 15% of your hair strands is not noticable enough to assume you're in terminal length. Well unless you have 10 strands of hair on your head. This is just my opinion though.
Sent from a land where women rule.....
OK, this paragraph just shows how people misinterpret growth. Let's think about this. 85% of your strands are growing at 0.016 inches a day all at different stages of growth. How much is that? Too tiny to demonstrate, but this line and dot _. are the equivalent of 0.125 of an inch.... So that line and dot are a little more than ten times the amount of length your strands grow per day. So 10-15% complete their growth cycle today. Tomorrow another 10%-15% reach it. What's the difference in length between these two sets? 1/10 of _. that length.Tomorrow another set arrive at the end of their growth cycle....
Now for each of these sets, there will be 2-3 weeks when they just sit there waiting to be shed. Meaning each day 10-15% will be completing their cycle and joining them.
Bottom line is there will not be such an obvious difference in length between the strands on different stages unless you're observing strands with a microscope. But they will appear to be falling to the same length. That is UNLESS your have a section that grows faster than others...and in that case that section will ALWAYS be longer than others...never being caught up coz for some reason the follicles there are on some crazy type of mojo so they'll be doing their own thang.
So what is the explanation for "lead hairs"? Wear and tear. I don't know how anyone can assume that strands can be on your head for 365 days or multiples of that, be handled daily, exposed to the elements, washed, touched and not have any wear and tear. And what does wear and tear do? Rip the cuticle and create splits--with the oldest parts being most vulnerable. If you snip the ends when the splits are small or just in their starting stages, you slow down the wear and tear. If you don't, the wear continues further up the strand. A split is a frayed end made of smaller sections of the whole standing alone. The thinner sections are weaker on their own than when they were sealed together as one strand so they aren't as able to withstand the elements and manipulation the way whole strands so they break off easily because each arm of the fray is thinner and weaker. The breaks leave spaces, not unlike a lost tooth leaves a gap.
So how about when you see "lead hairs" then you don't. Could be they broke off too, coz after all, they are old and have been through the same trauma as the ones that broke off before. Or could be they shed. The were the strands that have been around the longest so why couldn't it be that they were already in their resting phase just waiting to be shed?
So what happens when you see "lead hairs" and then you don't is not that they WAITED for the others to catch up. Hairs don't stop growing unless they have reached the end of their cycle and then they get shed. Otherwise, the ends break off, because they are old and worn out. Otherwise, the ideas that hairs stick out because they are at different growth stages is just poppy cock, coz when you shave your head, you don't see "lead hairs" then. Not in the sense that you see where people post photos from a distance and show you 1 inch differences in length of strands and attribute that to different growth rates.
People who dust the same amount from all their strands regularly before the wear and tear has gone too far have full ends; no lead hairs there. They still have strands growing at different rates, but they do not have strands whose ends were left on too long that they chipped off. If people wait too long to dust, then they will find themselves living in the lala land of "lead hairs" which is just a euphemism for see-through ends due to breakage.
I'm sorry @Nonie, but this doesn't make sense. If you shed 10-15% of your hair every day, you'd have a new head of hair each year. It's my understanding that you lose up to 50 strands a day, which may be about 10-15% annually on a head of 100,000-150,000 strands.
Regarding lead hairs, I believe in them. I think it's very possible for strands to grow at different rates at various intervals. If strand "A" grows 1 inch, 1/2 inch, 1/2 inch over a three month period and strand "B" grows 1/2 inch, 1/2 inch, 1 inch over the same period, they end up even but strand "A" was the lead hair. Now, I agree that some people claiming "lead hairs" are just suffering from breakage.