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My boyfriend is telling me that he heard that as soon as your hair comes out of your scalp it is dead. Is this true?
Like, Really?
Isn't the point of this board to allow the exchange of ideas without the normal backlash our "community" receives from most people? So we can all grow and be the best we can be?
I find your comments hostile, childish, and mean. This person had an honest questions and doesn't deserve to feel the heartless patronizing you've slapped her with. My 2 cents.
"Hair is actually dead material when it leaves it's root - otherwise it would hurt very much when your hairdresser works with his scissor."
A quote from here:
http://www.tlhs.org/carscien.html
Actually, hurting is a function of whether there're nerves, not whether the tissue is alive or not.
Actually the cells of the hair shaft are 'alive' for some time after they grow from the root, but only for a month (give or take). This would mean that the first half to full inch is only 'alive'!
Now, why do I put quotation marks around the word alive? The hair cells aren't connected to the nervous or blood system, hence we don't feel them being cut, nor do they have a chance to live long. No nutrition means no grown, which is why hair takes so long to grow; it only grows from the base.