Thin/Fine Hair Thread

[SandyBottom]

I was wondering how much hair usually thin with time. When I was a teenager my ponytail was around 3,15 '', now it's 2,5'' on a good day. It's this much of thinning normal? I don't have any deficency.

I wonder about this too. I'm 57 and my hair is definitely thinner than when I was younger, even up into my 30s. I don't know how much of it is due to decades of not taking care with how I treated it, stress and covid shed though. I'm trying really hard to maximize whatever growth and thickness I can (in a healthy way) while I still have a chance...mending the sins of my youth sort of thing.

[Bri-Chan]

I've heard that hair gets thinner with age. It scares me because I don't have much at all to begin with

Yes, thinning after we reach 50yrs old is normal, unfortunately. It's called "senescent alopecia" or age-related thinning according to the article that can be found at the link below. I'm fighting it every step of the way bc my individual hair strands are very fine and so I need every single piece of hair.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5419032/

Same here!

I wonder about this too. I'm 57 and my hair is definitely thinner than when I was younger, even up into my 30s. I don't know how much of it is due to decades of not taking care with how I treated it, stress and covid shed though. I'm trying really hard to maximize whatever growth and thickness I can (in a healthy way) while I still have a chance...mending the sins of my youth sort of thing.

Yes, but I am 27. I was expecting this to happen in way more years.

[sarana]

One of the things that bums me the most about having thin hair is that I just cannot for the life of me pull off a half-up hairstyle. I just don't have enough hair to put half of it away and have the rest look decent. In a half pony it looks okay from the side, because it adds volume from the side view, but from the front it's so so bad. Like I'm balding. Half bun is just a no.

I lament this because a lot of my inspiration aesthetics are heavy on the half-ups, such as elvish or xianxia.

[constancev18]

Bri-Chan, oh no! 27yrs old is definitely too young.