Re: Defenton's Story - (21 and receding, update on page 11)
MEANSTREET said:
why did u shave it? like to see if itd grow? hows the3 hair now? is it better or worse than ur good pics? cheers
Yea essentially to see if it would grow. my last hair cut I had deliberately not had the front cut so it was, leaving the UK, at least a couple of inches longer than the new stuff. This hair had obviously grown but it was not so clear if the new stuff had at all. So, in a hotel room in Dalat (this idiosyncratic Vietnamese town) i borrowed a pair of scissors and used me razor to remove my temple hair, my left temple was alot easier as the hair was more obviously 'new' than the right temple.
Using the left temple as a guide, therefore, since then (18th December) until now the hair has grown between .5-2cm depending on how close it was to my original hairline. In other words, the stuff that was starting to appear in NW1 shape (on LT) before I left has regrown to the extent it had reached (<.5cm) whereas the older 'new' hair is about 2cm and, as such, is still a little shorter than it was. Therefore the overall regrowth is now more uniform (on LT) BUT my old old hair is now quite long (9cm at the front) and as such, the disunity between old and new is more obvious.
This leads me to two interesting hypotheses I would appreciate people's input from:
1. Does the longer hair affect the growth of shorter hair?
I am wondering because my new hair seemed to have stopped growing in comparison to the longer old hair (or so it seemed) and once i evened the playing field on my left temple, the really short new hair regrew at a comparitively faster rate than the slightly 'older' new hair i.e. it re-reached its original length at a quicker rate.
If so, would shortening my old hair help facilitate faster growth of my new stuff? In as much as the really short hair re-grew comparitively faster than the semi-short.
2. does my new hair only grow to a certain length?
Had my new hair simply reached its zenith at about 3-4cm and had it really stopped growing ? Is this possible, I mean it's regrowing now but will it seem to stop at about that level again, forever condemning me to odd pseudo-hair on my temples? Is there a precedent for this?
Basically, I'm wondering whether to get a really short hair cut to help out my new hair. But if this is all in my head, I don't want to go through with it as my hair looks good atm (will post a pic of me soon) and I don't want to lose that for a crew cut on the basis of shaky pseudo-science to help out hair that is clearly growing or that might grow to a certain length anyway.
Please help, I know I've been a kind of inspiration for some people (and ive gladly helped out people) but for the first time I'm actually a little concerned myself about my own progress that seemed so indefatigable back in late July.
safe