The hairy winter

I have a thing for winter, the good one. Winter is equal to a hero when it comes to keep the right body’s temperature of mine. Oh! Nothing extra-ordinary, it was just I am a warm person, both, personality and physically.

My body heat is always warmer than the average Jane or Joe (I would like to think so) which somehow acted on the protein at the root of my hair. Before I bored everyone to death by going into the scientific details, let me put it in a plain sentence, my hair was falling out excessively throughout summer time comparing to the winter season.

As you can deduce, under the all year summer weather of Malaysia, the same thing took place. The progressive hair thinning caused baldness at the center of my head. And having two hair whorls doesn’t help either as the open space in between them made the nakedness of the scalp prominent even from afar. Being the shortest among siblings made the ordeal worst. They would make sure that I comprehended it well; there was a location on my head that was not having enough hairs to cover the scalp and that was a bad thing because I am a girl. Both of them, the boys, would take turn pointing it out to me every time they walked passed by.

Ah! It’s genetic by the way. No. Not inherited from my father’s side. He had soft pretty black thin waving hair that I love to touch. Playing with his hair was the last thing I remembered of him before he was wheeled into the ICU. It was actually a combination of both. My mother had strong curly thick black hair that started to turn white in her late 30’s. Her hair loss started earlier, after giving birth to me until she decided to have short hair style in her late 40's. Me, I have a soft thin waving black hair, that love to fall.

Then, the magic ensued. I started to learn that I was gaining more hair than ever since the end of 2006. The hair softer than usual and I can keep it long, something I never did in Malaysia. The temperature was cold and so the skin of the scalp. Last year, when I went back to Malaysia for holiday on March, my mother noticed that more hair was growing on the spot. And then, thanks to summer and build up stress, the falling hair syndrome began once again. So now, I am eagerly waiting for this winter.

Actually, I was in-debt to a makcik who is a salon owner here for giving me ideas of maintaining  healthier hairs even without winter in the future. The girls brought me to her shop, after I pleaded them because I cannot stand seeing the falling hair all over the house anymore, to cut short my long hair. Right after getting the not so trendy Lady D's hairstyle, I asked her if she had any medicine to help my hair grows healthily. By the way, she was also commenting about my thinning hair while doing her job. She told me that because I am young, this problem probably because of the trait inherited. She had a few commercial protein remedies for hair but she would not suggest it. The best things to do for now possibly are to eat healthy food with more protein, like wakame or such and wash the hair once in couple of days, and do not overdo it. She also mentioned that probably the idea of me having a long hairstyle was not a good one; long hair that easily fall out means the protein at the root of the hair was not enough. She then suggested that I should wear a short hair cut throughout my life, which I will gladly tell my future hubby if ever he asks me to keep my hair long. He presumably doesn’t like to be served with hairy rice by his lovely baldly wife, instead of hairy crab as his lunch meal.

Here, I am blaming nothing for the loss of my hair. This is just a confession of my love for winter. Sigh!