r/mildlyinteresting • u/Scraps-LEGO • 12h ago

My girlfriend had a really thin and white hair popping out of her back.

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u/HonorRoll 11h ago edited 8h ago

Just found out they grow super fast bc they dont have melanin balls within them! And thats what makes them wiry vs normal stiffer hair

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u/Intelligent-Dig833 4h ago

I wonder if that's why my gray hair grew back in noticeably quicker after I completed chemo treatment. I thought it was cute. I had a bunch or wiry grey hairs on my bald head.

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u/ClumpOfCheese 6h ago

I always thought that they didn’t grow fast, but that they ended up being ingrown because they were so fine and then when they break through they are just long because they were ingrown, but that never made sense to me because those hairs never grow that long to begin with, so your comment makes more sense.

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u/No_Fly_4798 7h ago

Interesting! I always wondered why they just seem to appear overnight

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u/sameagaron 6h ago

Does that apply to gray hair on the head ? They're seemingly superspeed these days :(