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So, here I am again, posting another update, never thought one day I would reach that mark, next year we're going to complete 2 years and I'm happy for this.
Recently, I've noticed that not only I'm getting old but, I've found a one long white hair on the right side of my head and my mother said that white hair appeared because I'm too nervous (I don't get angry on anyone, but I get pissed off easily with my father all the time), or maybe it's genetic, I really don't know and this hair, especially that white one, is from a different pattern than the others, it's not curly as the others, is some kind of straight with a little wavy on it and it feels more a thicker texture than the others.
The other thing I've noticed recently is, my hair on the left side is a bit longer than the right side, maybe it's only my impression, but I already noticed it everytime I comb it when it's wet (And yes, my hair is a little wet on this photo). Some of my hairs from the top are reaching my neck collar and when I wake up, I can't get up fast when I was doing before, if I do something like this, my hair "catches" on my back and aches a lot.
Well, I don't have this time a story to tell, because it didn't happened any interesting events on the last month with me.
You're doing beautifully. Your first grey hair? That takes me back many years. I think it was for me when I was about 21 or 22, though I was more than 30 when the Grey Revolution really took over. Now, I look in vain for a hair that isn't grey!
You have great thickness and length for your tightly curly hair. My father is white-haired, from his mid 50's and my late mother went grey even earlier. So it seems to be genetic. For your hair that is longer on one side than the other, you could have the longer side trimmed just to be like the shorter side. That's a possibility.
As always, keep it growing and flowing.
Anthony
I wouldn't trim it yet because every month my hair is changing the style on its own, a little of an "awkward stage" I must say.
I don't panic for a white hair like other people I know, my father is on 45 and doesn't have a single white hair on his head, but I can't say the same for the beard and my mother is 2 years younger than my father and already got some strands of white hair but you can't notice it, because she's always colouring her hair to the "normal color".
Thanks for the kind words!
Cheers
Your hair is looking good.
Hair turning white or grey is genetic. I used to have all black when I started growing my hair long in 1964. Now in 2014 at the ripe old age of 60 my hair is now all grey. I love my grey hair,
I keep saying I earned every one of those grey hairs every time someone told me to get a haircut. That grey hair is now about four inches above waist length.
My grandmother said to me that every grey hair you got on your head is something like "10 years of knowledge and experience" and if we think like this, you got light years of experience than me (and you really got) hahaha.
Like I said, I don't panic for a white hair like the other people, I even like it, but for me it's weird considering that I'm "too young" for something like this.
If I found this white hair again, I'll try to get a good angle and take a good shot at it, because it's just one and when it appears, even my mother can notice it when she's on my side on the couch.
Cheers!
I'm "too young" for something like this.
Too young? It's all part of genetics. I know guys from college who were all grey by the age of 18. And I know other guys who essentially lost all their hair at the age of 21. And I know other guys who still had a full head of hair when they died. It's all part of genetics.
Is it really longer on one side? Is it that the curls on side may be tighter? Maybe when you sleep on one side it flattens ut the curls?
I usually sleep more on the right side of the bed than the left side, but I wouldn't trim it until I get past that little "awkward stage" because it's changing it's style every month and I don't want to lose all the lenght I already got doing something I don't even know yet.
Cheers
It's looking real good, man... Keep going and don't worry about such things - just let it grow... you're coming along nicely.
That is very interesting because the hair on the left side of my
head grows faster than the right side. I always just figured
that the left side of of my brain was more fertile. ;-)
A question, where your hair grows faster on the left side are you by any chance right handed?
Anyone on here left handed with the hair growing faster on the right side?
On my hair i'm right handed but i've noticed the left seems to grow a bit faster and thicker.
Well I'm left handed in some things, such as writing and with
the computer mouse but I eat with my right hand and comb my
hair with my right hand (I wonder if that could have an effect
on my hair, that is, does it make a difference which hand one
uses to brush/comb their hair?).
I would think it would be which hand is your "dominant" hand.
I'm right handed, I write with my right hand, use the left hand for the mouse, use the right hand to input numbers on spreadsheets, comb/brush with my right hand, etc.
My wife is left handed and is fond of saying "left handed people are the only ones in their right mind."
(I can't use her as an example of whether left handed
individuals have their hair grow faster on the right side
since she has a substantial amount of damage to her hair from
thyroid medication.)
Well, it's seems I'm not crazy as I thought, I'm right handed and I've noticed that too but we need to find out the answer from a left handed...
You part your hair in the middle, so the hair line in the middle is not exactly in the middle of your head (as for what I can see on the picture). I see the hair line is more to the left that to the right so that may be the reason why you feel like your hair is longer in the left side.
Amazing update by the way, keep growing!
"...I've found a one long white hair on the right side of my head..."
I think silver, white, salt & pepper hair looks great...more interesting than just monotone...just sayin'
Walter White Tail
I got my first gray hairs (I noticed four of them one day) in my beard when I was 30 years old. Now, 37 years later, I have a head and beard full of them. Hey, it must not be fatal!
Also, I've had my beard and hair both grow to terminal length for quite a few years now, and for both of them, the length is a bit longer on the left side than it is on the right. Since both are always moving around, in the wind and such, no one really notices this except me, when I am in front of a mirror combing it.
I could trim some off of the left side, but that would just make the hair mass, be it beard or hair, look shorter as it moves around. That is something people WOULD notice.
Bill
Are you enjoying a particularly windy day, Bill? Or does your beard grow that way naturally...
I love your pictures. Always a pleasure to see your fantastic and unique style.
Fitz
It was taken on Twin Peaks, that same hill that the recently-shown picture of Ken riding his "horse" was taken. It's at 900 feet elevation, and of course, at its edges, San Francisco is at sea level. Yes, the wind was really blowing that day, but often up there it does. It was blowing so hard that my beard curled upward to flow in the wind currents. The picture above was taken on the same hill.
Thanks, Fitz. Life's too short to not be yourself. Why would one want to look like everybody else? I've always been one to celebrate my own "look"!
Bill
No. Grey hair is not fatal.
Years ago I had black hair. Now it is all grey. I'm not sure when it turned it started turning all grey, there was one point where I was looking at photos of me and the hair was all grey.
I would mention that if I look at the hair in indoors, or take photos in doors it looks black, but outdoors the grey really shows through.
Hi Guiherme,
Your hair looks more and more amazing with each passing month, truly an inspiration to see those long dark curls of yours!!
Once you are able to tie your hair back into a ponytail, your dad's negative comments will probably gradually subside... Long hair that is tied back during the day has a look that's ALMOST similar to short hair (from the front, at least). Plus, the longer someone has seen you looking this way (as a longhair, in other words), the more they just learn to accept the fact that they have no power to "change" your mind...
Happy hair-farming!
- Ken in San Francisco, California
Hi Guilherme!
Thanks for posting, Your hair is looking great..
I noticed my first grey (facial) hair when I was 32.....
14 years ago.... and these days one side of by beard is greyer than the other... oh well... Keep Growin'...
Congrats in 20 months... The Spaf Man
Congrats man! I have to say you look very similar to my brother in law when he grew his hair out several years ago! he has the same curly black hair as well!
-Tommy