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Just found this forum and was wondering if anyone else has this problem. I've had long hair for 32 years. The last 10 years I have had to wear it in a ponytail. Does wearing a ponytail thin your hair? It sure seems to have mine.
This will depend on what you are using to hold your ponytail. Any covered hair elastics with a metal strip holding it together can be damaging, as can elastic bands. Look for special no tangle elastics or covered elastics with no metal. Hair gets caught and broken in the ends of the metal bit, so you can imagine how this can thin out hair with repeated use. There are also elastics with two hooks at either end so you wrap around the ponytail and hook together, but i still think hair is caught too easily in those.
That's why I use scrunchies. Easy on the hair and no damage.
I only use rubbers with a lot of wool around (the diameter of the hole is about 2 cm), and I need an additional clip to fix it because the hair is too thin to hold them.
My hair was thinning over the years, but this happened elsewhere (fortunately I have no bold spots), I think the reason is genetic prerequisite. In the last two years thinning seemed to have got a balance, the hair got very long and hair loss is not so much that it worries me, but I don't know if I can keep it complete over the years.
It is remarkable that the hair almost keeps it color at age 50.
I am very carefully with combing, detangling, trying to make the roots not feel any pain and I try to minimize breakage. The hair is in a ponytail for about 10 hours any working day, and this since several years, the length of the longest lost hair was 52 cm.
wolfgang
When your hair is up in a ponytail, do you ever take it and divide it into 2 sections and spread it to tighten your ponytail? If so, this will cause breakage and hairloss. You have shingles that lay flat on each hairstrand, and when you do this, you push the cuticles up the opposite way than they lay and it ruffs them up, and over a long time of doing this, you will get a lot of damage and breakage.
This is why women wear hair clips instead of ponytail holders, because it doesnt damage the hair as much and there is no temptation to try and tighten a ponytail and damage the hair.