Hair color restored after going grey
I was combing my hair this morning, when I noticed something totally, absolutely, bizarre:
A hair along my front hairline was half grey, half black!
And what makes it even more interesting is this:
The half that was grey was at the end of the hair, the part that was black was the part that was growing from the scalp!
This is very, very unusual because (a) it's rare to find a hair that has changed color in the middle of a growth (anagen phase) and (b) because it's even MORE rare for this hair to be a grey hair turning back to becoming a pigmented hair!
I know this is hard to believe, but it's the absolute truth. I did my best to take a picture of it.
Click here to see the picture.
I took the picture using my digital camera with the hair placed on a red background so you can differentiate between the black part and the white part of the hair.
I have several ideas as to how this could have happened. First, it may be that this hair was a weakened hair from androgenetic alopecia (male pattern baldness), that had responded well to the treatment regimen that I have been on and had reversed course from a fine, unpigmented hair to a thicker, pigmented, terminal hair. Second, it may be that the hair was one that had NOT been effected by MPB, but had gone grey from natural causes, and something in my regimen caused the color producing mechanism of the hair to kick back into action. Third, it could simply be spontaneous repigmentation. My feeling is that the second possibility is the most probable in this case, as the white part of the hair is as thick as the black part of the hair.
Anyway, I am amazed nonetheless and will continue to see this as a sign that the treatments I am using are probably working. What an interesting side-effect if this is the case.
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