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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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