For example, head hair seems to grow forever if I don’t cut it, but my arms doesn’t, there’s like a *limit* of growing
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Actually, hairs don’t stop growing. But some hairs are “programmed” to fall out after a while. It’s why you don’t have 6″ eyelashes! Of course, they get replaced by new hairs that grow in.
The average growing cycle of hair is around 6 to 7 years when you don’t cut it and it doesn’t break. You’ll reach, what scientists call, terminal length. It’s the longest a hair can grow. Most people never get to that as nobody grows out their hair for 7 years without cutting it.
And there are various other factors influencing your hair growth.
There isn’t a limit on growing. The hairs on your arms continuously grow. The very tip of your arm hair eventually reaches a point that wear and tear causes it to break off or it may fall out at the root and start over again. Since this eventually happens to all hair after a certain point depending on how long that hair has been growing, it seems like there’s a limit on the length when really it’s the age of the hair imposing that limit.
You may notice that a particularly thick hair, like one growing out of a mole ends up being much longer than the others. This is because it’s thickness allows it to withstand wear and tear longer than the rest of your body hair.
With long head hair you have to coax it because the hair is dead. It relies on oil from the scalp and doesn’t need to be washed daily. I have really thick curly hair almost to my waist now but it used to be unhealthy until I started wrapping it into a bun during a lot of my showers instead of washing it. Brushing distributes the oil and that’s why hair looks the way it does after it’s brushed- shinier and in place.
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