Tom, Dick and Hairy

I was having a conversation with my 'talk-anithing-under-the-sun' kakis at work. One of them complained she was having split ends. And so i learnt a few things about hair such as 'straightening', 'rebonding' and 'extensions'.

Well one thing lead to another and soon we were discussing on the reasons and purpose of hair. Firstly, armpit hair. I mean, why is it there in the first place? At least there are scientific and acceptable reasons for ear and nose hair but, armpit hair?

One of them came up with a theory that armpit hair is to absorb sweat and prevent it from smelling. Possible. But dun u tink that having no hair there will help the sweat at the armpits to evaporate faster thus reducing on the BO?

From armpit hair we moved on down to pubic hair. Why is it there man!? Itchy u noe! Haha. Is it there to act as a 'shock' absorber when u.... 'ahem'? And why, why, why... must it be curly!?? Doesn't matter u from wat race, sure curl one! Natural curl some more. Dunno why. Cannot straight meh? One of us has a theory that probably we wear underwear and the pressure makes it curl.

Hmmm.... Must find somebody leh who never wear underwear. Straight maybe? Haha!

There are so many reasons on the existence of hair on our body. Different people have different opinion about them. Watever it is, here are a few facts about hair:

1. Hair is actually dead material when it leaves it's root - otherwise it would hurt very much when you cut it.


2. Female hair grows more slowly than male hair


3. Male hair is more dense than female hair


4. Frequent washing does not increase loss of hair


5. Spliced ends cannot be repaired and need to be cut


6. Pigments give the hair its color. When we age, hair receives fewer pigments and turns gray or white.


7. It is normal to lose 100 hairs per day from the scalp.


8. You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone.


9. Asian hair grows the fastest and has the greatest elasticity.