What can the ends of your shed hairs tell you?
Hey guys. I wanted to ask you what you think the ends of your shed hairs might be able to tell you about how your treatments are working. Most of the hairs I shed are thinner and less pigmented towards the root (as in Case 1 below), with the length of taper being quite short. Less than half a centimeter usually. However.. I do shed a few hairs that are notably thinner at the tip with a gradual increase in thickness and pigment towards the root! They are however in the minority. I also found a few really long hairs today that showed basically no taper throughout the shaft length. I'll post pics of each case.
Case 1. Shorter hair (3-4 cm) that is thicker at the TIP and thinner/less pigmented at the root. The length of this thinning is about 4mm.
http://i.imgur.com/C152t7O.jpg
Case 2. The same hair as above, except this time I clipped off the 4mm that is thinner. You can see that the ends are now the same thickness and pigmentation. The 4mm I clipped off represents about 12 days of growth. There's no way a hair could succumb to miniaturization in 12 days.. could it? Maybe this is normally how hair bulbs look?
http://i.imgur.com/QrV8LoD.jpg
Case 3. Shorter hair (3-4 cm) that is thicker at the ROOT and notably thinner at the tip! Could this be good news? A reversal of miniaturization perhaps?
http://i.imgur.com/XVR0lLt.jpg
Case 4. Longer hair (8-9cm) that is pretty well the same thickness throughout. If this is 9cm long hair, it has been growing for about 9 months by my math. I started fin 9 months ago. Perhaps this means the hair has been maintained!
http://i.imgur.com/Tl9BikH.jpg
So what do you guys make of this? What do your hair ends look like, and how is your treatment going?