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Curiocity question
Indrid Cold
Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
A few weeks ago, I burnt some of the hairs on one of my fingers by mistake. A couple of days later, they had grown back to their original length, and they're still the same.
Meanwhile, my hair keeps growing and growing and it's the same with my beard (if I don't shave it).
My questions are these:
Meanwhile, my hair keeps growing and growing and it's the same with my beard (if I don't shave it).
My questions are these:
- How come some hairs on the body (like the ones on the head) just keep growing and growing, while others (like the ones on the arms) stop at a certain length?
- How do the latter "understand" when they've grown enough and stop?
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Where did you learn such things?
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It all started cause I noticed a long hair on my side. It was thin and blonde and super, super fine line a normal body hair, but it was crazy long. It was about 2 inches long when I noticed it, and I kept track of it for nearly a year (it grew to over 4 inches) before it snapped off halfway down, and i pulled it out. It must have lacked normal hair knowledge regarding stopping growing, and falling out. Most odd.
So things start to grow more than they should, including any hair if the mole happened to be at a hair follicle.
A bit of a guess, but it sounds about right. I have a very small mole on my forearm, and it seems to grow two slightly longer and thicker hairs.
Head hair does have a limit - but its different for everyone.
Though, does anybody else find that calves are harrier than thighs?
It might be because thighs are thicker and the skin is spread out, which means the hair is spread out too? maybe.