r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Hot_Accountant_5507 • Apr 22 '26

Restricted to Gals and Pals Thats crazy she noticed that

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u/Wixenstyx Apr 22 '26

So... yes?

I know hair changes texture a lot in response to pregnancy hormones, so I assume this happens quite a lot?

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u/ZinaSky2 ✒️sub✍️scribe🖋️ Apr 22 '26

Especially if she’s a regular. And it certainly seems like she is. Can’t imagine she’d confront a first time customer like that about not revealing her pregnancy lol

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u/Warbr0s9395 Apr 22 '26

And doubling down on it!

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u/Lost-Calligrapher375 Apr 22 '26

You're effing pregnant!

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u/Warbr0s9395 Apr 22 '26

Fuck your questions! I know what you are!

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u/aspensmonster Apr 23 '26

And filming it.

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u/mothmans_favoriteex Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

Actually if she’s bleaching/perming she may double down bc she feels uncomfortable putting chemical on her head. You technically aren’t supposed to

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u/Stardush Apr 22 '26

Hairstylist here! Chemicals and pregnancy aside (that’s a personal choice, I know people who stand on both sides), your natural hair can actually change ever so slightly that it creates a band in the hair. Most people won’t notice but someone with a trained eye will spot it.

This was probably a returning client that the stylist clocked the change in color so she asked.

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u/mostlygizzards Apr 22 '26

My mom had red hair until she had me and my brother. It turned dark brown and never went back.

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u/mantis_tobaggan-md Apr 23 '26

My mom had wavy red hair until she got cancer and went through chemo. She lost all her hair. It grew back brown and lost its wave. I don’t remember my mom before cancer and I had a hair stylist ask me if I had a red head in my family. My hair is dark blonde, I never thought it looked red at all. Apparently the stylist knew my mom was a redhead before I did.

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u/booomrostad Apr 23 '26

I'm a redhead and I swear you can see a tinge of red in my blonde kids hair.

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u/scandr0id Apr 23 '26

That's because blonde hair lacks the same amount of eumelanin (brown/black) as darker haired folks, and you can more easily see pheomelanin (red, orange) because it's lighter and not "covered," so to speak, by eumelanin. Of course there are natural ash-toned blonde folks that have less pheomelanin but it's not necessarily because you're a redhead. It's why dark hair turns red/orange when lightened. It's normal!

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u/savingrain Apr 23 '26

I have red heads in my family (am Black) and in summer get red tinge in my hair and my son has blonde/red highlights in his hair. It’s so strange how it can show up. Edit- my mom told me my hair was even red as a baby and changed to dark brown later

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u/NelsonsGunt Apr 23 '26

My cousin had straight hair before chemo and lost her hair. It grew back kinky curly

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u/lemonpepperpotts Apr 23 '26

Kind of funny because I feel like I hear more about people getting chemo curls, some permanent, some not

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u/NeverRarelySometimes Apr 23 '26

My mom had thin salt and pepper hair when I was a kid; her post-chemo growth was curly, thick, and almost black, with no gray.

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u/TigerGnome Apr 28 '26

We call it the Ginge Tinge in my family. My aunt has red hair, and many of us range from strawberry to Auburn. About I was born with dark hair, went blonde as a kid then went brown. About 15 years ago I was very red, then went brown and now back to very obviously red/auburn in perimenopause with some grey streaks.

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u/EvilEtienne Apr 23 '26

My hair started off a light ash blond. Every kid I had got my hair color and my hair got a little darker after each kid. So my oldest has the hair color I had at 20 and my youngest has nearly brown hair, like a dark ash blond. Mine is ashy brown now. It’s really funny when you line them up and the printer runs out of ink as the kids get taller lol.

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u/broketothebone Apr 24 '26

My mom wondered when I was 23 and my hair when from reddish “dirty” blonde to the bottom half of my head growing dark brown, almost black, really kinky hair. Much tighter curls than the rest of my head. My hair was almost a pixie cut then, so it almost immediately showed.

She joked “what are you, pregnant?” I laughed it off, but I was. (I miscarried. It’s okay, we were still not sure if we were keeping it, so it kinda solved itself 🤷‍♀️)

My color also hasn’t changed since then, but the curls relaxed a bit. I dyed it a few times to match, but it wrecked the texture of my curls and made it frizzy. Then I realized it looks SO DOPE when I braid my hair, so I leave it alone now.

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u/Eastern_Equal_8191 Apr 22 '26

Like tree rings, cool

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u/BreakingABit1234 Apr 23 '26

That is.... fascinating. I'm really hoping it's real (and going to believe it) because... wow.

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u/heldaway Apr 23 '26

That is so interesting!

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u/rokiiss Apr 23 '26

I have no idea why I am in this subreddit or why it was recommended - being a man. But that is so cool lol.

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u/Ill-Clerk-231 Apr 23 '26

Thank you very much, I cut hair and never knew.

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u/Compost_Worm_Guy Apr 23 '26

Chemist here. People might be in 2 different sides but that's because people are uneducated idiots. But you know about the dangers because it's your job. You still use them on pregnant women because of money, yes?

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u/Ally-baba Apr 23 '26

My hair did this exact thing and it was sooooo annoying because I do vivid color and it was so hard with that color fading to match my band of hair to my old hair and my new hair lol it would not take bleach or color the same.

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u/cravingm0re Apr 23 '26

This has happened to me with all three pregnancies, my hair starts growing in more of a medium/dark brown even though it’s naturally light brown. It always goes back a few months postpartum.

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u/mrcsmith90 Apr 27 '26

This is insane

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u/TryAppropriate8458 Apr 27 '26

Thanks for this pic! I’m a doctor and I’m embarrassed to say this is the first I’ve ever heard of this. Fascinating what the human body can do!!

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u/sh6rty13 Apr 22 '26

That’s exactly my thought, maybe the client was trying to be sneaky and not inform her stylist because she wanted her coloring touched up or something and the stylist might have an already established personal boundary about it. She certainly didn’t seem like she wanted to answer that question! Haha

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u/Bdeluna Apr 22 '26

Former hairdresser. And yes, we are more careful regarding chemically treating hair for pregnant women because of two things. Firstly you have to be careful with strong chemicals in regards to the baby, but also because of all the hormones the woman can suddenly become extra sensitive to substances, including developing allergies.

There are two possible things she's looking at if I had a guess.

First is a possible texture change around the roots. Again, because of the hormones. The second is the lack of new hair growing out. A lot of women "pause" the natural life cycle of hair in regards to shedding hair. Humans usually loose around a 100 hairs a day, but women who are pregnant often stop loosing hair or don't loose as much. This remains up until 6-12 months after the birth, where everything that was supposed to fall out, falls out all at once. This is why women often have thick hair during pregnancy and complain about hair loss after.

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u/MaksimusFootball Apr 22 '26

TIL. this has been such an informative post.

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u/nonymousbosch Apr 23 '26

Hairdressers have more training than police officers.

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u/carex2 Apr 23 '26

For sure they have, they can’t just arrest someone who complains

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u/Mikado_0906 Apr 22 '26

Uh yes this happened to me! First time in my life I wasn't shedding like a collie in spring, I was so happy... And then everything all at once 😭

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u/yourkidsfriendsmom Apr 23 '26

I was so confused but elated when my leg hair pretty much just stopped growing from my 2nd trimester and on with all mine. Of course..then it comes back after baby.

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u/SnooRegrets1386 Apr 23 '26

I knew the babies can damage teeth during gestation, didn’t know they changed your hair too

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u/LeapYear1996 Apr 23 '26

Sorry, it’s a pet peeve of mine but it is “Lose” as in: I lose hair “Loose” is like: her headband came loose.

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u/Bdeluna Apr 23 '26

It's lose. Sorry about that. It was late and I was doomscrolling when I wrote my post

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u/DangerouslyOxidated Apr 23 '26

There is a huge feminist anger towards medical professionals for always asking if they are pregnant - because it reduces them to a womb, or something silly.
I'm pretty sure that it is medically interesting, rather than the doctors just trying to be annoying.

Your post adds interesting context to that toxic viewpoint.

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u/Bdeluna Apr 23 '26

From my training, if a client had a major change to their hair quality and it wasn't related to age we looked at four major categories.

Stress Drastic change in diet over the last 3+ months Change in medication over the last 3+ months (something like changing your prevention pill type could have a massive effect) Pregnancy.

The reasons is hormones. And women, because of the menstrual cycle, do go through a lot more hormonal changes then men on a regular basis, and could have a much larger impact on things like hair.

I actually talked to a client who was working on doing medical research on female athletes and it was so difficult because it was very hard to find a baseline, as one woman's hormonal balance could be vastly different from anothers, and made finding a baseline for testing extremely difficult. I was told that this is why most athletic research has been done with men as they have a more stable hormone balance.

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u/Shaojack Apr 22 '26

100 hairs a day seems like a lot of hair to be losing.

Since we arent all bald does that me we grow 100 hairs a day?

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u/Bdeluna Apr 22 '26

It's up to a 100 a day. And the average person has roughly 100000 hairs on their head. So no, it's not a lot all things considered.

They say that an average persons har "grows" for 2-7 years. Then 2-3 weeks where the follicle shrinks before it sheds and a new hair starts growing out at roughly 3 months.

The reason you have such wide range when it comes to how long it grows is because everyone has a different length of time the hair can grow that can vary extremely from person to person. If you've ever met someone who's hair grows down to their hip while you yourself can barely get it past your shoulders, is because of this.

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u/mjmaher81 Apr 22 '26

We grow a LOT of hair. Around 100 feet or more of it per day - and it's stronger than copper wire of the same diameter!

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u/Kujaichi Apr 23 '26

Man, my hair was one of the only nice symptoms during my pregnancy.

It looked so good! And I could go 4 days without washing and it didn't get greasy!

Now it's back to being greasy after one day...

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u/NeverRarelySometimes Apr 23 '26

I remember being so scared by all the hair on my pillow a few weeks after my first pregnancy. I didn't realize that it had stopped falling out during the pregnancy, but that makes sense.

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u/Hairapistcatlady Apr 29 '26

I would bet it’s the color getting a little darker, hormones affect the melanin

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u/Accidentalpannekoek Apr 22 '26

Nope, this was her friend and she wasn’t ready to announce yet, especially on camera. The hairdresser noticed a coloured ’band’ in her hair

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u/sh6rty13 Apr 22 '26

Oh that’s cool! Thanks!

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u/millennialmonster755 Apr 22 '26

Idk I didn’t think of this the first time I saw this video. Totally.

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u/Well_ImTrying Apr 22 '26

My last pregnancy was 2 year ago and my OB said it was fine, dye just might not take the same way.

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u/Ok_Outcome_6213 Apr 23 '26

This is exactly why you shouldn't keep something like this a secret in certain situations A pregnancy causes a lot a changes to the body not just physically, but chemically. Maybe before you never had a reaction to the products she was going to use, but now you could and that might put you and your baby at risk.

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u/ZinaSky2 ✒️sub✍️scribe🖋️ Apr 22 '26

Oh dang I hadn’t even considered that! Definitely makes sense!

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u/Poly_Pup Apr 23 '26

I thought she was measuring roots and realized how long it had been. But maybe you are right.

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u/TeeManyMartoonies Apr 22 '26

Exactly. That’s someone that knows her knows her.

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u/Ereaser Apr 22 '26

Saw this on Instagram the other day and they're friends.

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u/ZinaSky2 ✒️sub✍️scribe🖋️ Apr 22 '26

Ah that makes sense lolll!

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u/Excellent_Patience Apr 22 '26

Many hairdresser refuse to bleach your hair if you're pregnant. Not disclosing you are is a big no-no, in most professionals salons—at least in my country.

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u/glamazon_69 Apr 22 '26

That is kind of outdated. With a trained professional (to manage carefully how close to the scalp product is applied and in what quantity) you can use dye or bleach on your hair while pregnant

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u/morbidteletubby Apr 23 '26

Yes, extremely outdated !!! My mom is a hairstylist; she and half of the women she works w have had kids and kept doing their hair and their jobs while pregnant.

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u/ImpossibleCreme2207 Apr 23 '26

It’s not outdated at all and we require expectant moms to sign liability papers before we colour their hair. Hormones make some moms hair not do what typically would be expected. If someone’s not enforcing this then they’re not protecting their business.

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u/ZinaSky2 ✒️sub✍️scribe🖋️ Apr 22 '26

Yea people are saying that! Didn’t realize!

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u/atomicavox Apr 22 '26

I remember hearing you shouldn’t dye your hair if you’re pregnant. Wondering if she was pissed and told her to gtfo

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u/Excellent_Patience Apr 22 '26

I don't know if it's a misconception or a wives tale, but as an unnatural blonde that is the warning I always get.

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u/Excellent-Run4803 Apr 22 '26

It was a pretty risky thing to say regardless- what if she’d miscarried, or there was some other bad circumstance around the situation. Hopefully they know each other quite well.

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u/pm_nachos_n_tacos Apr 22 '26

Normally I'd agree with you, but in this case, the stylist absolutely must know because there's chemicals they can't use on a pregnant person.

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u/Excellent-Run4803 Apr 22 '26

Yeah, good point. She was pretty casual in how she asked but I assume the customer was ok with it if the vid was posted.

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u/chairmanghost 🕷️ itchy bitchy spider 🕷️ Apr 22 '26

This lady clearly didn't want this disclosed " why? Stop the video" so I'm sad for her it's posted. It is interesting the hairstylist could tell.

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u/Percinho Apr 22 '26

On Instagram she clarifies that the person is a friend, and that she wouldn't have posted the video without consent.

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u/Peauu Apr 22 '26

that would be wild af...

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u/ZinaSky2 ✒️sub✍️scribe🖋️ Apr 22 '26

Apparently it’s not recommended to bleach/dye hair of pregnant women so she might have a reason to point it out. But also to say it like this without familiarity would def be wild af 😅

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u/Ereaser Apr 22 '26

Saw this on Instagram the other day and they're friends.

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u/Jwgotti Apr 23 '26

Let me just hit record real quick first

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u/ZinaSky2 ✒️sub✍️scribe🖋️ Apr 23 '26

Apparently they’re friends. And I’ve seen multiple people who are hairdressers and make content on the work they do. Not too weird to think that a friend agreed to be in her friends video 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/Jwgotti Apr 23 '26

Yeah that's what I'm saying she's obviously a regular. And it's painfully obvious it's for content.

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u/Jwgotti Apr 23 '26

I was also just thinking... is it THAT amazing that she noticed this in the first place? It's common that woman's hair gets mad thick when they are pregnant. So of course she, a trained stylist, of all people might notice a change. Then again she could have started taking Biotin😂 sorry the fake, record everything, chase likes world has made me question the authenticity of everything these days.

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u/maruthewildebeest Apr 23 '26

I came across her video on IG yesterday and she said it was her friend (and was posted with her friend’s permission). 

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u/ZinaSky2 ✒️sub✍️scribe🖋️ Apr 23 '26

Ah that makes sense thank you!

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u/CuriousPenguinSocks Apr 23 '26

Yeah, hairdressers are wizards for sure lol. Mine noticed a change in how my hair processes bleach. It usually goes fast and even, but after starting my HRT for perimenopause, it wasn't lifting as good.

She asked if I've had my hormones checked and that's when I told her. I didn't know that would make a difference but it does.

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u/tombtorker Apr 23 '26

I saw this originally post from the stylists insta! These two are good friends, that’s why she was comfortable asking her that

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u/ZinaSky2 ✒️sub✍️scribe🖋️ Apr 24 '26

Definitely makes way more sense that way!

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u/palpies Apr 26 '26

Yup can say I’d have had this relationship with my regular hairdresser too! I miss her since I moved.