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I'm just wondering if anyone/everyone else gets small knots near the end of single strands of hair? I have naturally wavy hair and it seems the longer it grows, the more single strand knots I get at the end of my hair. Any idea what causes this and how to prevent it from happening? I generally have to cut them off but I wish I didn't get them at all. My hair is very healthy, has no split ends and isn't dry or damaged (from what I can tell) but I'm wondering if it is just part-and-parcel of my hair type or do people with dead straight hair get them as well?
I was also wondering how many strands of hair on average everyone looses each day when they comb/brush their hair? I'm thinking I must lose close to 50 a day and hope this is just normal and not too excessive.
And one last question, again my hair is naturally wavy and is fairly disposed into getting tangled easy, especially in the morning after I've woken up. Just wondering if there is anything I can use or do at night with my hair to reduce the tangles that seem to like to form at night?
Gordo
I can answer one question, I have read that a average
person sheds about 50-100 hairs a day. As for the knots, I am
in the dark.
Keep it growing!
Cool, I can stop worrying then ;-) I was more concerned that I was brushing all my hair off my head but looks like that is just normal.
Gordo
I get the single strand knots too. I have wavy hair that is curly on the ends. I just figure it happens and cut the strands off. The knots are almost always near the ends anyway.
The 50-100 strands number I've seen a number of places, so believe it. Keep in mind that fifty strands of foot-long hair will be a bigger mass of hair than fifty strands of inch-long hair, so when you first grow out your hair you'll think you are losing more each day, but you are not. So relax and enjoy your long hair. Even in shedding, you have MORE HAIR!
I have hair that sounds like it matches yours: sort of wavy, but not terribly so. I don't get knots at the ends of single strands, but with two or three hairs. I've accepted this as part of the hair type, but I may be mistaken.
To keep my hair sort of neat at night, I usually brush it out then loosly braid it. This also keeps me from feeling like I'm going to strangle myself with it at night.
I hope this helps.
Thanks for the comments, my hair is a little strange as the hair on the top of my hair (or top layer) is pretty straight with a slight wave but the hair that grows at the base of my skull (or bottom layer) is even more wavy or perhaps could be called a loose curl. Maybe I just don't brush my hair correctly.
I might start tieing my hair back at night and see how it fairs then, can't be any worse then what I have to put up with in the morning currently.
By the way, last night I sprayed some leave-in conditioner on my hair and this morning my hair was a lot easier to comb and didn't have nearly as many tangles as what I usually get. I'm doing the same thing tonight so I'll see how it goes.
Gordo