EW! MONSTER split end! Split 9 WHOLE TIMES?!?!?!?

[FallingDarkness]

What on earth?
I don't even UNDERSTAND that.
I tried to take a picture when I found it this morning. I was just munching on an English Muffin and looking through my hair and then was like OMG that's a split end. Wait... That's a LOT of split ends. On the same strand of hair?! It looked hideous! It looked alien! How'd I miss it so many times before? I S&D regularly, I wear my hair up every day... :( What did I do wrong to get that monstrous split?
Sorry. More of a rant than anything. But ew. Just. Ew.
I must be bad at hair care of something. :(

[Entangled]

Well, I think the record is seventeen times! Monster splits are just...wow. That takes skill!

[Larki]

Wow! The most I've found so far is four on one strand.

[Knifegill]

Probably not your fault. Even with best efforts, hair is bound to get caught on things or decay.

[FallingDarkness]

Seventeen times? I think I'd die if I had a Monster Split that bad. The worst I had found before today was 2, so I was seriously shocked to find one so much worse than that today...

So what you're saying is that you can't really prevent Monster Splits? :/

[dogzdinner]

wow! I didnt think 17 was possible! 3 is my personal 'best' so far. :D
I suppose statistically though monster splits are bound to happen given how much hair you have on your head!

[MJ1972]

I once found a strand with nine splits long ago. I was eleven and checking out the length of my ponytail while being driven somewhere by my mother. I yelled, 'Mum, you'll never believe this. I just found a hair with nine split ends!' just as my Mum nearly hit the vehicle in front of us. She was so shocked by the near-collision that she told me to shut up and spare her my hair stories. I remember being quite offended at that. Here I was, sharing a momentous event in my life, only to be told to shut up... It wasn't until I started to drive myself that I began to understand what my Mum must have gone through at that moment.

Long story short: I feel your pain, FallingDarkness. It's stupendous when you find a hair like that. And like you, I have no idea what caused a split that bad...

[RoseofCimarron]

Aw that sucks, FallingDarkness! No one likes to see a split like that. :( Your hair looks really pretty and healthy in your avatar, so I hope this split is just a fluke.

I think my personal best (or worst) is a record breaker, 29 splits on one hair. Yep, 29. I was sitting in my car after a yoga class and noticed a really split hair, so I pulled the hair away from the rest and cut it off right above where the splits ended (about 4-5 inches up the hair). I counted them and there was at least 29 little feather splits. :scared: I tried to save it to post a picture, but I lost it getting out of the car when I got home. :( Only on LHC right? :laugh:

[Olavi]

If I remember correctly, my record is seven or eight splits in one strand. But it has happened maybe two times, mostly my multiples are maximum of four in one strand.

[Gertrude]

I would be wicked and say congratulations on your super strong hair (-;, because once my hair has three splits, most ever I have seen, it has thinned/weakened so much that if I just touch it it breaks off. To still be one hair with lots of split ends means there is strength in the hair. Or to me and I am no biologist. Since I have been wearing my hair up I haven't had the lots of tiny splits at the very end thing, well at least as long as I have a small trim after three months or so, but do get the occasional very split canopy hair. Which has two splits at most. Between hairs without splits.

[starfire]

I get those too! I prefer to not have splits, but I get quite a kick out of finding them.

[FallingDarkness]

Yeah, I'd hate to have to get such a large chop due to damage when I'm sooooo close to waist. By so close I mean like 5 months away. But still. I feel closer than I am.
Everyone's tales of horrendous monster splits makes me feel slightly better :P And Gertrude, thank you for claiming that my hair is strong. It gives me hope LOL

[jacqueline101]

Oh my that's a monster. I think the most I found on my hair was two. I thought it was a monster.

[ghost]

Ugh!!! I hate the look of monster split ends, they look so disgusting and unsettling for some reason. 9 is...quite an achievement :O Weird, the stuff that happens to our hair even when we take the best possible care of it.
FallingDarkness your hair looks in a lot better condition than mine, now I have to go check for monster splits, too.

[Kherome]

Just yesterday I cut off a 14 way split.

[trolleypup]

Usually feather type splits (although all the splitlings tend to be on one side) are from a hair being pulled through a snarl (pulled through a sharp corner - like using a scissors to curl ribbon).

My most recent monster was a triple bubble split (hair intact above and below with three strands in the middle...then the tip of that hair was some kind of multiple split, 6 or 7 splits total.

[JustPam]

I find some crazy splits, most I've found is a 10 (currently preserved in sellotape in my wallet), but 3s and 4s aren't uncommon (thanks bleach and straighteners!) I always wish I had a microscope to look at all the weird things up close, splits, dots, holes

[PinkScarf]

I just found a hair on my head that had five splits and I thought that was crazy! I hate having split ends but the monster ones are always kind of cool to look at, at least.

[YGDW]

I got those too every now and then. Even as a child, I found it highly fascinating. I remember when I was about 12, my teacher said something about me like "[name] always pays attention, even though it looks like she's only studying her hair all day long". My goal was to study them under a microscope. In any case, I don't find them disgusting. I mean, they're just a hair. Probably as clean as all the other hairs on your head. Nothing's bleeding or anything. :)

[tokugawa.miyako]

Wow, I'm pretty sure that I've never seen more than two splits on a single strand of my hair! I'm going to be scared now. :shudder:

[maskedrose]

I had one where split at regular intervals ALL the way up the shaft....I think it was around 15 splits total. I found the one closest to the bottom, then continued to follow the strand upwards and couldn't believe my eyes. I think I maybe have a rogue follicle that produce weird growth patterns...but I've never found one like that again! So weird.

[ladonna]

When I joined tlhc most of my bsl hair had these types of splits, I had the cut my hair to my shoulders and start over. Seriously did not know anything about hair care.