Random Hair - doing its own thing

[itsnotmeitsu]

For years I've had my hair shoulder-length with a centre parting and a fringe. I do next to nothing with it, apart from getting it trimmed and having high/low-lights. I'm extremely low maintenance. However, this year it's started to go weird.

I'm past the menopause; I'm not on any type of medication, but my hair has decided it's bored with what I've been doing and now breaks out in all directions. My fringe can look like a mad woman's walking the streets; my ponytail says, 'Well I used to be smooth and lovely, but now I'm doing this', and my parting is now non-existent. Post-menopause I'm now a curly haired person. Has anybody else experienced their hair totally changing as they enter the pensioner years? And I don't mean the normal changes to colour, thickness, etc - I haven't had those to any great extent. I mean your hair deciding it's spent all it's life doing this, now it's going to do something else instead?

I think my hair's saying, "Do not go gently into the good night ..." :-)

Not menopause but pregnancy left me with properly curly hair. Have had to completely change how I look after it. I'm hoping menopause sends it back the other way, should find out in the next 5 years or so!

My poker straight wouldn't hold a curl hair changed to curly after having my dd. 12 years on and I still don't know how to deal with it properly.

Pregnancy didn't affect my hair. It's weird, because surely hair growth is about your follicles rather than hormones? However, @Insertdeadcatsnamehere and @Sniffypete - after I had my son I began to experience year-round hayfever symptoms. I'd never suffered from hayfever before. My allergy seems to be triggered by damp and mould. When I mentioned it to a GP he said being pregnant can cause changes to your immune system. I now take an antihistamine (30 years later) year round. Who'd be a woman 😟.