Is it potentially bad for hair to have it cut too much?

[Hope4hair]

Hi there, got a fairly random question that I'm hoping some of you can help me with.

I like to keep my hair short, usually with a buzz cut. 1-2 fade on the sides and then a 5 or a 6 on the top with a bit of a fringe left. My recession is so far in the temples and increasingly in the sides so the buzz cut is a look I favour. When I get my haircut, I feel a lot better about myself, lighter, and happier. My problem is that after about 3 days the hair has noticibly grown back a bit and it doesn't look so fresh. After about a week or so, say 5-7 days, my hair has grown enough to make my hair line noticible, and my forehead becomes noticibly bigger and I feel that I become less attractive. I was gonna say 'ugly' instead of 'less attractive' but that doesnt get anyone anywhere. f*** negativity.

So perhaps if I had my haircut done weekly this problem would be reduced, and I could keep it shorter, the way I like it, consistantly. However my question relating to this is, would it be be bad for my hair to have it cut consistantly? I would prefer to get it done no more than every 2 weeks which is often enough anyway, but after the first week it starts to look shitty again.. Or perhaps I could go even shorter to try and get the cut to last for about 2 weeks??

I'd really appreciate some pointers.. thanks

p.s. Id also just like to comment that I am young, 19 going 20... and that baldness is fucked. I am at university, and its obvoiusly a place full of students. its a highly image conscious culture.. unis are probably more so than most other social groups.. everyone's trying to look their best, and its a stressful motherfucker trying to look good whilst receding, the two just dont mix.. but hey we all got our insecurites and we can only do our best whatever that is.. good luck to you all and keep your head up.

 

[Armando Jose]

Hi Hope4Hair;

If you are interested in this issue, i'll recomend you to read my theory in the link in my signature. www.againstalopeciaandbaldness.com

Comments are wellcome

Armando

Hi there, got a fairly random question that I'm hoping some of you can help me with.

I like to keep my hair short, usually with a buzz cut. 1-2 fade on the sides and then a 5 or a 6 on the top with a bit of a fringe left. My recession is so far in the temples and increasingly in the sides so the buzz cut is a look I favour. When I get my haircut, I feel a lot better about myself, lighter, and happier. My problem is that after about 3 days the hair has noticibly grown back a bit and it doesn't look so fresh. After about a week or so, say 5-7 days, my hair has grown enough to make my hair line noticible, and my forehead becomes noticibly bigger and I feel that I become less attractive. I was gonna say 'ugly' instead of 'less attractive' but that doesnt get anyone anywhere. f*ck negativity.

So perhaps if I had my haircut done weekly this problem would be reduced, and I could keep it shorter, the way I like it, consistantly. However my question relating to this is, would it be be bad for my hair to have it cut consistantly? I would prefer to get it done no more than every 2 weeks which is often enough anyway, but after the first week it starts to look shitty again.. Or perhaps I could go even shorter to try and get the cut to last for about 2 weeks??

I'd really appreciate some pointers.. thanks

p.s. Id also just like to comment that I am young, 19 going 20... and that baldness is f***ed. I am at university, and its obvoiusly a place full of students. its a highly image conscious culture.. unis are probably more so than most other social groups.. everyone's trying to look their best, and its a stressful M*****F***** trying to look good whilst receding, the two just dont mix.. but hey we all got our insecurites and we can only do our best whatever that is.. good luck to you all and keep your head up.

 

[Hope4hair]

Armando Jose - I had a little look at your theory. After reading past all the scientific jargon what your saying is cutting your hair too much and/or too short means some chemical that's linked to baldness doesnt have far to travel and thus is linked to causing baldness..

Fair enough I guess, but I really don't think you have the research to back that up.. there are loads of people who continually shave their hair/keep their hair short and dont lose hair so I really think just on the premise of common sense and conventional wisdom that its unlikely to be the cause of baldness as such.. it may play a part..

One paradox to consider is that growing your hair out when your going bald in general problematic - it often looks ugly and unkempt, so a lot of the time when people start going bald they opt of the buzz which then as you say may speed the process up.

To me it is overwhelming when you realise the enormity of trying to solve the problem of why we go bald. There are so many factors to take in, so many variables.. There are thousands of theories supporting this and that and no one really knows the exact reason. Its just one of those never ending questions..

I think the wisest step is to just focus on a cure - HM seems to be the only one so far to hold any gusto. There are so many f*****g things possibly causing baldness that it just seems like theres no point to dwell on what the root cause is. To me its one of those biological mysterys where your guess is as good as mine.

Having said all this, maybe your theory does hold truth, i'm only speculating here, but im pretty sure that baldness is ever increasing right? Many years ago when people left their hair more 'naturally' there was probably less baldness. Entirely plausable I guess, but perhaps its more than just that, for example it could be that if your hair is short, and with all the chemicals and poisenous stuff in our modern enviroment we come into contact with that the chemicals dont have time to leave when the hair is shorter.. Who the f*** knows.

 

[Armando Jose]

Hope4hair;

Thank you for your time reading about my theory.
A few insights;
Hair biology is very complex, there is a lot of mechanisms involucrated but my theory want to fix the the early events in common baldness. I think that problems in sebum flow are triggering this multifactorial maladie.
Certainly there is people with short hair that don't develope Androgenetic Alopecia, but curiosly all of these people have a dense hair. Are you agree?
Growing hair don't resolve the problem, it is a preventive method, not a curative method.
In my opinion Tonsure is the unique method to make common baldness, ¿do you know any other method?

Also, chemicals in hair would affects all hairs, not only the top hairs.

You are wellcome

Armando

 

[CCS]

Armando Jose - I had a little look at your theory. After reading past all the scientific jargon what your saying is cutting your hair too much and/or too short means some chemical that's linked to baldness doesnt have far to travel and thus is linked to causing baldness..

That would explain why some many guys with shaved heads are going bald.

 

[Losingmyhair]

Just curious. Whats the so called proper lenght to prevent?

 

[king-]

i have the same prob , my hairline is receding slowly and im diffuse , on propecia for 3 months , i always buzz it is that ok? or will it make is it bad for people going through hairloss

 

[Nashville Hairline]

Conversely I think having hair too long makes it difficult to apply topical treatments effectively. What a pisser.

 

[LeesHair]

Cutting your hair often shouldn't have the effect your theory describes, what you are doing is simply removing the end of the hair- which is dead, and so it has no effect on the cell below.

CCS- possibly so many people with shaved heads shaved them because they were going bald, not the other way round?

Of course it is possible that having your hair cut short regualrly could have an effect, if you factor in the irritation from loose cut hair & the cutting process, increased scalp exposure to UV causing free radical damage, there are I suppose possibilites, but you couldn't really study it accurately, I'd say we have bigger problems!

Keep on cutting your hair- it makes treatment easier as Nashville said, and also shorter hair looks as though you can see the scalp because your hair is short, not because you're thinning, it's a good disguise!

 

[masterbilt84]

Cutting your hair often can have a slight thickening effect. Consider the growth of a new single hair. It initially starts thin, but as it grows, its body becomes thicker and thicker further down the shaft. Now if you cut that hair halfway down the shaft, the thin tip of the hair is off and the thicker shaft is now exposed. Obviously not all hairs are in this stage, but newly grown hairs are. I don't think it will make a big difference, but just making a small observation.