How did you lose YOUR beautiful hair?

[WingsOnMyBoots]

People would always comment on my hair, naturally thick, very long and dark brown. I never really appreciated in and always wanted to be blonde but now my hair is not so long, not so thick and coloured completely from a bottle (cry!) I look back with wistful nostalgia. So, yes, basically in my case it was AGE that took my hair away!

Veganism :-(

Pregnancy x 4

With each baby it got darker and curlier. I had a bad skin infection and was in hospital for iv antibiotics. On the second day in hospital ( but the third week of infection,) half my hair fell out as I brushed it. My hair is past my waist apart from the regrowing hair, which is shoulder length. It sticks out like a cloud. Thank goodness it grew back.

Chemo here too due to breast cancer.

My hair has come back just as thick but now very curly

Stress induced alopecia. Four bad patches of ill mental health and I shaved it all off. It was the most freeing thing I've ever done.

Seriously, veganism?!? Forgive my narrow thinking here but I thought all the lentils and beans would be awesomely packed with nutrients?!?

Trichotillomania, ruined the top to the extent where I haven't had a parting or my hair down in 24 years.
An ex hit me with a metal bar on the side of the head and that left a bald place.
A hairdresser burnt a lot (accidentally) with the wrong bleach.

Age. 44 and my hair is thin and fine.

Repeated courses of steroids and immune suppressing pills due to the bastard disease known as crohns.

Pregnancy. It was always thick, then it got thicker and none of it fell out. So it’s super thick but it’s very very coarse hair with no definitive ‘shape’. I can’t go any longer then 4/5 weeks between cuts or it starts to look horrendous

Thyroid problems for me.

Couldn't be arsed with it so I went for the clippers.

Stress and zinc deficiency (undetected for a long time). Slowly growing thicker...

I lost my hair due to chemo, but it came back exactly the same.

It was dieting and pregnancy that thinned it out. It's just starting to thicken up again at the front, but my curls have dropped and my hair just isn't as... magnificent. And it really was!

Having a child and then developing a chronic auto immune condition finished my hair off.

I had gorgeous, thick tumbling curls, now I’m stuck with straight, boring, flat hair. I’d kill to have my curls back!

IVF, each round made my hair thiner and wavy. I had thick perfectly straight shiny hair before. I could wake up in the morning shake it and forget to comb it as it never looked out of place.

Pregnancy. I used to have lovely thick hair but two pregnancies have me looking a bit thin on top now. I hate it. And I’m starting to get grey hair and I’m only 31.

Thyroid disease.

Bleach. Oh bleach.

Pregnancy and age. My hair was very thick, heavy, shiny and a good colour.

Now thinner, coarser and some of it almost colourless. I loved my hair. The rest of me was not much to look at so it was the one thing I felt good about. Still - my kids are lovely....

I am lucky though that it was loss through "natural causes" not because of cancer - and I am not young any more so can count my blessings.

Trichotillomania. Sides, behind the ears, are never going to grown back beyond an inch or so, the rest grows fairly normally, but I wear it in a short crop. I’d love to have long hair.

Age.

The grey/white ones have a texture and mind of their own and any taming is only very temporary.

Sleek, smooth, shiny almost black hair is no more.

Three pregnancies, oh well fuck it. can't stick it on my head now.

Years of an eating disorder.
Anorexia on and off since I was 10.

Thyroid disease caused by a period of anorexia in my early '20s.