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Hey. I’ve asked this before but I don’t want to give up. I’m just going to give you all the facts:
I’m a 17 year old girl and have noticed that my hair has really thinned over the past few years.
My hair used to be nice and thick and now I can see a LOT of my scalp.
My dad is pretty much bald, my mom’s hair is kind of thin but thicker than mine, and my grandma on my dad’s side is pretty much bald also.
I’m really embarassed by this and don’t really want to talk to my mom about it. It just makes me sad.
I’ve done some research on home remedies on regrowing hair, but I’ve also read a lot that you can’t really “regrow” your hair follicles or whatever.
Anyway, I’ve put oil in my hair, as well as a raw egg, but I’ve only done both once because I don’t really know what I’m supposed to do. Has anyone tried this? Are you supposed to do it often?
Ladies, you know how important our hair is for our image. I don’t really have a high self esteem, but my hair used to be really thick and it was something that I liked about myself. Now I don’t want to wear it down because you can see so much of my scalp.
Keep in mind that I’m 17 and so life is already tough and confusing. (Typical teen behaviour, I know things could be worse, but you can probably see where I’m coming from. No teen wants to suffer from hair loss so early when they’re already feeling awkward. Especially teen girls).
I know there are ways to disguise it, like short cuts with lots of layers, but short isn’t really a look that works for me.
Right now my hair is sort of long with no layers. It’s sort of curly and is pretty frizzy which makes it so much better.
I want to dye it darker, but that will probably make it’s thin-ness even more noticible, right? If you can see my scalp?
Are there any suggestions you have for me. Besides medications. I don’t really want to talk to my mom about it right now. It’s too embarassing.
I’ve also heard before that your hair changes every 7 years or something. Is that true? Because I noticed my hair started to thin a few years ago. Is there any hope that it will be thick again? I don’t want to get my hopes up too much though because of my grandma and heredity and all.
I don’t have a terrible diet or anything. I’m not the most super healthy person, but I don’t think it’s my diet causing this. Also, I get really stressed during the school year, but it’s not that bad.
I’m not really interested in anything to make my hair LOOK thicker, like shampoos and mousse and sprays. I want to actually grow more hair.
Thanks so much! You have no idea how much I appreciate this!
Sorry if I sound like a whiny teenager who complains too much, but this is something that I’m really struggling with.
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