hair and nails: correlation between growth and strength?

[Gibson_Girl]

I was just thinking about this! I've always thought it was pretty weird that no matter what my hair was going through, my nails remained their unbreakable selves, growing at a pretty fast rate. This is fine now that I don't need to keep my nails short all the time, but back when I played the harp, it was a real pain to maintain them!

[Ashtaroth]

I’ve always had thin flimsy nails and buckets of fast growing hair. Apparently my body has priorities and nails are bottom of the pile.

[MusicalSpoons]

Medium hair, fairly week nails, both grow at a fairly average rate. I'll get a random nail that grows long and strong very occasionally, but most of the time they all start peeling after a couple of mm of white. I moisturise them every time with my hands with really good creams, I don't spend loads of time with my hands in water, and supplements don't seem to help My hair gets splits up the shaft but not loads and loads. I feel like if my hair were weak the oldest ends would not be in decent condition still after all these years, but it's not amazingly strong either. It doesn't like braids, which is a bit wimpy really

[Spiffyhink]

It's really interesting to see the results of this poll! I put that my hair grows fast and is weak, just like my nails, so I always assumed that there was a correlation, but it looks like I'm in the minority on that front. The only thing I seem to share with most of you is that both do grow pretty quickly.

I am interested in seeing what supplements would do, though. My doctor does always ask me if I take one, and several of you seem to have noticed a difference. I'm curious to know if it would help stop breakage (in both hair AND nails) in my case.

[Myx]

My nails have always been crazy-thin and prone to splitting/breaking. My hair is fine, but seems reasonably strong for what it is, I guess? It's certainly always held up through the abuses I used to put it through. :P

[tuanyiji]

My hair grows slightly faster than usual due to my hormone issues (2-3cm/month), I thought my hair was medium thick, but someone else saw the picture of my shed in a sink and said that’s coarse. My nails grow fast as well, but I have thin and soft nails, they are not brittle or break easily, just very bendy and not good looking. I keep my nails short as I do garden work and play the piano.

[lapis_lazuli]

My hair is just barely iii and my nails are strong. I let them grow out long until one breaks and I start the cycle over again. I like my natural nails a lot, which is good because nail polish is not compatible with my finger detangling.

I'd say both my hair and nails grow at an average rate.