Hello, everyone. Just signed in to try my luck, since I’m rather desperate. I’d like to congratulate you for this forum, its community and all those things, but I’ll be selfish and I’ll get to the point. I’m sorry if this is not the suitable place to seek help for my issue. Bear with me and my rudeness, please.
So, I’ve got a problem with regards to my hair, the way it grows, specifically. I’ll start by what I consider the cause of it. When I was younger, when you don’t care about your looks and you barely have any sense of aesthetic, I would let my hair grow a bit, and whenever I did exercise, I would sweep (not entirely sure this is the correct verb) all of my hair (fringe, sides, crown, nape) with my hands backwards, towards the centre point of the back of the skull, approximately. And it was easy to do and long-lasting since it was wet after having sweated.
The following years, having reached puberty, I started to care more about how I looked, but my hair was already messed up, and I ended up worsening it even more due to my non-existent knowledge about styling your hair, by brushing my hair in an unnatural way. Years later, I decided to “restart” my hair, so I shaved with an electric trimmer. After letting it grow, I could clearly see that my hair was growing the way I had accustomed it to, just slightly less than before. I thought this was nonsense, since the pattern your hair follows is biological, I came to the conclusion that cutting it from the root (or at least the closest you can) would be the solution. After some time, I shaved it again, this time with a razor, manually, so I could go deeper. In fact, I’ve done this a couple of times more, and my hair has certainly got a bit better, although It’s far from decent.
So, the current situation is that, for example, the hairs of my neck, instead of growing like in the attached photo, that is, outwards, grow towards the opposite direction, backwards and upwards, towards the back of the head. And to the same direction grows every hair. I suspect (as I can’t come up with any other cause) that the hair, from its very beginning (the movable part, so to speak), it’s accustomed to grow in a different direction, rotated on its own axis (kind of freak to think like this, I know, but it’s not that I had other choice).
The only solution that I can think of it’s getting an even closest shave, but I doubt it’s possible, and if it were, sounds dangerous. Or maybe repeatedly shave it, but that would not get back my hair to its natural pattern. This may sound like it’s just me being stubborn or even paranoid, but I refuse to accept that my hair naturally grows like that, it makes no sense and it’s awful, and if I see photos of me when I was a kid, my hair does not nearly behave like that.
Any help would be much appreciated, although I’m not very optimistic and it’s mentally killing me, as it’s my own fault. I hope I’ve explained myself clearly, English is not my mother tongue, so don’t pay much attention to any mistakes or muttering, please (not implying my English is horrible, don’t take this as false modesty). Lastly, at least I’ll make good use of this post to wish you Merry Christmas.
So, I’ve got a problem with regards to my hair, the way it grows, specifically. I’ll start by what I consider the cause of it. When I was younger, when you don’t care about your looks and you barely have any sense of aesthetic, I would let my hair grow a bit, and whenever I did exercise, I would sweep (not entirely sure this is the correct verb) all of my hair (fringe, sides, crown, nape) with my hands backwards, towards the centre point of the back of the skull, approximately. And it was easy to do and long-lasting since it was wet after having sweated.
The following years, having reached puberty, I started to care more about how I looked, but my hair was already messed up, and I ended up worsening it even more due to my non-existent knowledge about styling your hair, by brushing my hair in an unnatural way. Years later, I decided to “restart” my hair, so I shaved with an electric trimmer. After letting it grow, I could clearly see that my hair was growing the way I had accustomed it to, just slightly less than before. I thought this was nonsense, since the pattern your hair follows is biological, I came to the conclusion that cutting it from the root (or at least the closest you can) would be the solution. After some time, I shaved it again, this time with a razor, manually, so I could go deeper. In fact, I’ve done this a couple of times more, and my hair has certainly got a bit better, although It’s far from decent.
So, the current situation is that, for example, the hairs of my neck, instead of growing like in the attached photo, that is, outwards, grow towards the opposite direction, backwards and upwards, towards the back of the head. And to the same direction grows every hair. I suspect (as I can’t come up with any other cause) that the hair, from its very beginning (the movable part, so to speak), it’s accustomed to grow in a different direction, rotated on its own axis (kind of freak to think like this, I know, but it’s not that I had other choice).
The only solution that I can think of it’s getting an even closest shave, but I doubt it’s possible, and if it were, sounds dangerous. Or maybe repeatedly shave it, but that would not get back my hair to its natural pattern. This may sound like it’s just me being stubborn or even paranoid, but I refuse to accept that my hair naturally grows like that, it makes no sense and it’s awful, and if I see photos of me when I was a kid, my hair does not nearly behave like that.
Any help would be much appreciated, although I’m not very optimistic and it’s mentally killing me, as it’s my own fault. I hope I’ve explained myself clearly, English is not my mother tongue, so don’t pay much attention to any mistakes or muttering, please (not implying my English is horrible, don’t take this as false modesty). Lastly, at least I’ll make good use of this post to wish you Merry Christmas.