I understand you so well! I have to cut the lower parts just to get rid of the headaches. Long hair is my dream but probably it will never come true. Yes, the hair looks great but so much effort involved into making it look this way. When I go out I use tons of hair pomade for women to style it. I'm not even talking about how much shampoo I use. I can finish one bottle in one week! There are a lot of other drawbacks but I still love my hair and would not replace it.

For heaven's sake! For the past three months, words have disappeared from my posts. Agnostic admin says it's a software glitch.

This morning, these words were deleted: "daughter," "charge" and "is."

Still,your hair is beautiful

I've always had thick hair; and even though it isn't as thick as when I was younger, in the warmer weather it drives me nuts if I have it down. My younger daughter's hair turned out even thicker than mine. But, I'll take thick hair over big boobs anytime. I wish I were a cup size smaller. And, the older I get, the more I wish that were so.

A unique discomfort you have,Thick beautiful hair,understand how it is a pain in the ass for you but you look great in that style,have you ever considered shorter ,Find one of those sites where you can put a pic of your self and it can show you how all the different hairstyles look on you , being you are a smaller lady frame wise your present hair style fills you out more ,but i have lots of women as they mature go for the much shorter stylish ones and they look fantastic plus next to no work to look after almost like most guys ,, Lot of women whose hair has really thinned out would love yours ,No matter what you do, you will still be very beautiful

"I bring snacks to keep her energy up." Too funny. I can relate as I used to lament over my once long, thick and curly hair. But over the years, it has thinned out and now I wear a short pixie. Oh, what a relief!

Would having it cut short and thinned help? My hair is thick but nothing like yours, and I keep it quite short. Easy peazy.

I used to complain about my thick hair. Every hairdresser would comment on it...
Then, it started falling out. ‍ Now I embrace the baldness lol

Ok, I'm a science geek and am curious if you would be willing to do a simple hair thickness measurement. Others on here are welcome to join in and contribute. It only takes a few minutes.

If you have or would be willing to get a vernier calipers,
[amazon.com].

It's only $10. Use it to measure the diameter of a single hair. Do this for 10 different hair strands off your head; obtain the average and sample standard deviation of the 10 values. If very curly gently straighten until flat then measure etc.

But before you measure, ask each person if they feel their hair is thick and heavy and or dense. Then measure.

Here is my hair data:
Pre-meas: I feel my hair is very thick and heavy and feels very dense.
Meas: Hair diameter is 23 +/- 7 microns (1 micron is 0.001 mm) so 0.023mm.
Post-meas: now I think my hair is thin but because its so dense it likely feels thick and heavy.

To us baldies you sound a bit like rich people arguing over the quality of your food.

I sympathise.

My own hair, when I allowed it to grow to its fullest, matched that of Charles II of England, and it was relatively easy to look after.

I've never considered myself lucky to have thin fine hair, longing for thicker hair, but I'll take it as a blessing after reading your post. My hair is super long, so I keep it up a lot of the day, and lucky for me it's light so is comfortable.

I tried my thin hair long and couldn’t keep its ends out of my mouth. “Enough,” I said and had it almost buzz cut.