"thin" vs. "fine" hair

[arjun17]

Hi all,
a few ppl (including myself) say that we have always had "thin" hair even throughout childhood - thin enough that some ppl thought that we were going bald even at ages when it could'nt have been true. But now i'm thinking differently - i've realized that my hair is "fine" , not "thin". If i'm not mistaken, "fine" refers to a small thickness of the individual hair shafts, and "thin" to a smaller than average number of hairs on the head (i.e low density) If the width of the parting is anything to go by to estimate density , my hair is very dense, even tho its fine. My parting is very narrow , narrower even than most guys who seem to have much "thicker" hair than me. I'd say only 3 out of every 100 guys have a parting as narrow as mine (one NARROWER than mine would not be possible for a human scalp!!! ) I'd say I have far more than the average 100000 hairs on my head - I would probably have around 140000! I have black hair by the way. So the actual "density" of hair is much less important than "diameter" of individual hairs and some other factors in contributing to the impression of "thick" hair. This makes sense, because in hair transplants, only a few thousand hairs are transplanted, but they can still give a full or nearly full appearance (almost as full as my hair which is WAAAAAAY denser)
Anyone else who has always had "thin" hair, what do u think?
Cheers,
Arjun

 

[Greg1]

Geees! Have you hit the nail on the head! Whenver I'd ask my wife if my hair was looking better because of what I was doing for it, she'd say that it looked "fine". Did I ever get the wrong impression from that. But now I understand and know that there is a difference between "thin" and "fine" as you were saying. After two plus years of treatment, I'm seeing my fine hair has better texture, bounce and shine. The treatment option that I am using hasn't changed my hair from fine to thick but rather it has improved the overall appearance and health.

 

[Deaner]

How thin is your part exactly? Is this when you part it with your hands, or comb it and part it, or what? Because I find parting my hair with my hands yields a better looking part than just combing it.

 

[Guest]

The first thing my mum said when I saw her after 6 months was 'wow your hair doesn't look so fine anymore'

I think even if finasteride doesn;t regrow hair, it certainly thcikens it out

 

[ACT10Npack]

Hair distribution
Humans are covered all over in hair, except on the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, and the lips.

Hair is most obvious on the head and face (including the nose and ears in some people), the armpits, the groin, and (in men) the chest and legs.

How much hair do we have?

On average, each person's head carries about 100,000 hair follicles. Some people have as many as 150,000.
On a baby's head, there are about 1,100 follicles per square centimetre.
By the age of 25, this number has fallen to about 600, but the number depends on the physical type of the individual.
Between the ages of 30 and 50, the number drops further, to 250-300. There is only a slight further fall with age.
Each follicle grows about 20 new hairs in a lifetime. Each new hair grows for several years, and can reach over a metre in length.
Each hair falls out eventually, and is replaced by a new one

 

[arjun17]

to Deaner....

Hey Deaner,
My part is as narrow when I comb it, as when parting with my hands. But I get what u mean by it looking slightly better when parted with hands , that's because the comb tends to "line" up the hairs into "rows" with very small spaces in between the rows, but these spaces are noticeable in bright light, giving the impression of a "line with thin horizontal spikes" extending from it. but when u part the hair with the hands, the hairs lie flat and fall over each other, and no spaces can be seen between the hairs (other than for the two rows of hair which make the edges of the part) so it looks overall denser.
Cheers,
Arjun

 

[Deaner]

That's eeeexactly what i'm talking about...

 

[mre]

This post hit the nail on the head. I've always had "fine" hair to point where people would say "you don't have a lot of hair, I bet you go bald early". This was before I even had any serious hair loss. I always longed for hair that wouldn't blow all over the place in the wind or look horribly flat as soon as a mist of water hit it, but I realize that this will never happen.

These days, my hair is thining and I'm trying desperately to keep what I have.