PraiseCheeses
December 7th, 2010, 09:40 PM
This may fall into the category of Really Stupid Questions, but I have to ask anyway...:oops:
In just over a month, my hair is at least an inch and a half longer than when I had it chopped and just *looks* a lot longer. From what I know and from what I've read here about growth rates, this seems highly unlikely. I generally follow a good diet, take a multivitamin, etc, but I don't do anything like Monistat or castor oil or silica and protein pills or anything like that, so I question where this is coming from.
What makes me raise the question is this: Up until a week ago, I would straighten and dry my hair either with a blowdryer or by bunning, waiting, brushing straight, rebunning in the opposite direction, waiting, brushing straight, etc. In either case, it was a lot of damp brushing and pulling to straighten.
When I picked up a shed strand the other day, out of curiosity I tested its elasticity. Now I've heard that hair can stretch 30% when pulled slowly, but mine barely stretched at all before it snapped. Here is my stupid question: Have I stretched out all my hair with all of the damp brushing and pulling? Is it possible to do that? In my mind that could certainly account for both the obscenely fast gain in length and the lack of elasticity in a shed strand (if it was already stretched out). Is this possible, or is this like the time I was a little kid and thought people died because they ran out of blood? (You could bleed to death by being shot or cutting a major blood vessel, and old people were all wrinkly because their blood had drained little by little through all the little cuts they'd had throughout their life and they were running low. And since red blood cells lack a nucleus, they couldn't reproduce like other cells. It all fit. No one bothered to tell me about bone marrow for some time.:p)
I am not asking about whether I am speeding up my growth by pulling hair out of my follicles like out of a spider's spinnarets. I am asking if it's possible to brush and pull the hair too much when it's wet or damp and permanently stretch it to the point where it won't snap back.
Sorry if this is a really silly question. :run:
In just over a month, my hair is at least an inch and a half longer than when I had it chopped and just *looks* a lot longer. From what I know and from what I've read here about growth rates, this seems highly unlikely. I generally follow a good diet, take a multivitamin, etc, but I don't do anything like Monistat or castor oil or silica and protein pills or anything like that, so I question where this is coming from.
What makes me raise the question is this: Up until a week ago, I would straighten and dry my hair either with a blowdryer or by bunning, waiting, brushing straight, rebunning in the opposite direction, waiting, brushing straight, etc. In either case, it was a lot of damp brushing and pulling to straighten.
When I picked up a shed strand the other day, out of curiosity I tested its elasticity. Now I've heard that hair can stretch 30% when pulled slowly, but mine barely stretched at all before it snapped. Here is my stupid question: Have I stretched out all my hair with all of the damp brushing and pulling? Is it possible to do that? In my mind that could certainly account for both the obscenely fast gain in length and the lack of elasticity in a shed strand (if it was already stretched out). Is this possible, or is this like the time I was a little kid and thought people died because they ran out of blood? (You could bleed to death by being shot or cutting a major blood vessel, and old people were all wrinkly because their blood had drained little by little through all the little cuts they'd had throughout their life and they were running low. And since red blood cells lack a nucleus, they couldn't reproduce like other cells. It all fit. No one bothered to tell me about bone marrow for some time.:p)
I am not asking about whether I am speeding up my growth by pulling hair out of my follicles like out of a spider's spinnarets. I am asking if it's possible to brush and pull the hair too much when it's wet or damp and permanently stretch it to the point where it won't snap back.
Sorry if this is a really silly question. :run: