I have fine hair but alot of it?

[TealDolphin]

My ponytail measures 4.5 last time I checked; but my hair strands themselves are fine. Does that mean I have thin hair? Or am I overthinking it? :P

[MeganE]

Your hair is fine and thick. The term "fine" has been used to mean "thin" in many cases, but they are best considered as separate classifications. My hair is also fine and thick. It's definitely a handful as a hairtype!

[Sundial]

The "fine" refers to the texture of individual hair strand while the third classifier "iii" indicates that you have a lot of them (hence the ponytail circumference of 4.5) :D
So it just means that you have fine strands but a lot of hair! We have some members with similar classifications as you :flower: you can check out the article section for an article written by Phalaenopsis on how to handle thick fine-textured hair

[celebriangel]

No, you definitely have thick hair.

I sorta feel your pain on this one - my hair has a tendency to be *extremely* voluminous. I thought it had calmed down since puberty, but no, I'm growing it out now and there's a big demarcation line where the hairdresser thinned it to death and it looks like the beginnings of another where my stress-and-illness shed is growing out.

But yeah. Definitely not thin hair. Thin hair is less than 2 inches of ponytail, nomatter what the individual strands feel like.

[MonaLisa]

I'm the same! extremely fine and a lot of it, which i really like and want even more of course :)

[tabby28]

I ahve fine and thick hair too :) I asked my hairdresser, because we have similar looking curls, but her hair strands of hair are double the thickness of mine when compared side by side. So I am definitely fine but thick haired.

[jojo]

Your my hair twin! People get thin hair and fine hair mixed up. Fine is your individual hairs and thick is your overall volume or thickness!

[pepperminttea]

You have thick hair with fine strands; by no means is your hair thin. ;)

Handy article by Phalaenopsis here (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/vbjournal.php?do=article&articleid=188). (She's a 1a, but it's still worth a read for a wurly. :) )
You'll also want to check out the Fine and Thick hair thread (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=24724). :D

[Guenhwyvar]

My hair is the same :). Fine but thick.

[kyandii]

My hairdresser says this to me all the time. "Your hair is so fine but there's so darn much of it!"

[jojo]

^^ dito I get told this everytime I went to a hairdressers

[MissManda]

Yep, it's definitely possible to have fine, thick hair. :D All of the hairdressers I've been to have told me this as well.

It can be such a pain to find a balance between hair that is limp and stringy and a massive fuzzball sometimes.

[archel]

I, too, have tons and tons and TONS of fine hair. It's erm....rather a pain. :-P

[elbow chic]

Sounds just like me. I'm fine but thick. in more than one way.

[MeganE]

Sounds just like me. I'm fine but thick. in more than one way.


In more than one way?? What can she mean?

[elbow chic]

I'm talking 'bout my backside, woman. Fine but thick. ahahahha.

never mind....

[MeganE]

I'm talking 'bout my backside, woman. Fine but thick. ahahahha.

never mind....

Bahaha. I guess you're not the only one. I'm obviously thick, at least. :D

[Arianoor]

You have thick hair with fine strands; by no means is your hair thin. ;)

Handy article by Phalaenopsis here (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/vbjournal.php?do=article&articleid=188). (She's a 1a, but it's still worth a read for a wurly. :) )
You'll also want to check out the Fine and Thick hair thread (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=24724). :D

Thanks for the link! I'm fine, but thick, too. I just found the forum and am trying to get all the info digested.

[BlazingHeart]

My housemate is also fine but she's got superthick hair - about as thick as mine (I'm near 6" pony circumference). I've got mostly medium hair with fine and coarse thrown in to make knots (I swear, that's all the fine hairs seem to be there for! Make knots and blonde streaks in my chestnut hair.)

~Blaze

[Buggheart]

My hairdresser says this to me all the time. "Your hair is so fine but there's so darn much of it!"

Mine says the same thing.

[TealDolphin]

Thanks everyone :)

[lapushka]

Got that comment a lot from hairdressers in the past. Most of them kind of went Jekyll & Hide on me in one sentence, when I told them what kind of cut I wanted. "You've got fine hair :( (rummaging through hair)... but there's a lot of it. :D That so weirded me out.

[theodora]

Fine hair but lots of it: definition of my hair too. Problem is, hairdressers can't deal if they don't have the patience.
I had this amazing guy who used to do my full heads of highlights, really thin and natural like I like them. It would take 3 hours literally.
Cutting was even worse as every time, stylists thought it was a good idea to 'thin' my hair. The last haircut I got was in may 2010, and I'm still paying for it. I wanted a little bit of volume up top and layers, but something subtle and classy. The guy just wouldn't stop cutting and I got some layers on the top of my head that were so so short.
It's really awful as well when you're watching the person cut your hair and you can see the look of panic on their face when they realise you have so much hair and they can't actually get the layers to sit right so they just keep cutting, and cutting.

This is why, more often than not, I'd rather cut my hair myself!

[ChatNoir]

4.5 inches?? :O Oh, no, dear. You do NOT have thin hair! :P I do. My PT circumference is approx. 1.5 inches... not too happy about that, but hey. It's my hair :)

[terralerra]

I have fine hair and they are very few in numbers,what can I do?