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Black women also go bald because the hair underneath is so damaged to begin with. Many of them get relaxers before they move on to weaves. The nature of black hair is that it's tightly curled, so they don't have much "virgin" roots to relax again, so they get weaves. Another reason for the weaves is heat damage from straitening the hair while it's relaxed. A relaxer damages the hair, afro textured hair is very dry and brittle, and heat styling hair multiple times will cause breakage. It a recipe for disaster. Since many black women are very insecure and protective of their hair they will not normally commit to the big chop, where you will have shave off your hair to start over.
White women with very damaged hair will do a big chop too, but it can be very scary for black women since afro texture hair does not "grow very fast". It looks like it's not grow very much but it's just the nature of the tightly curled hair. It will take years up to a decade to gain back the length of hair you once had. The natural hair movement was big in the 70's but sadly went away, it's now getting very popular again. There are now many resources about taking care of curly hair, you can commit to expensive products like deva curl, or do more affordable routines like squish to condish and scrunch to crunch. For mildly damage or relaxed hair with lots of virgin roots the latter two methods do work. Many salons trained to style curly hair are popping up everywhere too.
My little advice to non black people who have unmanageable hair, you have curly hair and you never knew it. Try the routine from r/curlyhair for 2 weeks to a month and see if you get results. This was my black hair sperging, thanks for reading.
White women with very damaged hair will do a big chop too, but it can be very scary for black women since afro texture hair does not "grow very fast". It looks like it's not grow very much but it's just the nature of the tightly curled hair. It will take years up to a decade to gain back the length of hair you once had. The natural hair movement was big in the 70's but sadly went away, it's now getting very popular again. There are now many resources about taking care of curly hair, you can commit to expensive products like deva curl, or do more affordable routines like squish to condish and scrunch to crunch. For mildly damage or relaxed hair with lots of virgin roots the latter two methods do work. Many salons trained to style curly hair are popping up everywhere too.
My little advice to non black people who have unmanageable hair, you have curly hair and you never knew it. Try the routine from r/curlyhair for 2 weeks to a month and see if you get results. This was my black hair sperging, thanks for reading.
Blair may have male pattern baldness, even if you take HRT the predisposition of baldness doesn't go away. It's something that is passed down from your father, if every male paternally related to you are bald, you're going to go bald too. This is also true if early baldness runs in your family.Does the fact she's biologically male make a difference? I'm pretty sure man hair and woman hair are different, and the only thing tranny HRT changes is that it's less likely to fall out, I don't think its structure or whatever changes? If you get pictures of non-troon men with "girl hair" or women with "boy hair" but block out the faces, you can usually tell what they are, so there must be something in the different hair thing...
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