White Hair: Pluck it or leave it?
When you see an errant white hair among your lustrous locks do you pull it out? Or do you pull or pluck out you head hair for any other reason? Well you should not.
While the old adage that when you pull out one white hair three will grow in its place is not true, there are other reasons why you should not be plucking out your hair.
Experts now advice that cutting a white hair is a better way to get rid of it at short notice than to pluck it out, because this can ultimately lead to hair loss. This is what actually happens: a limited number of follicles, usually 25-35 follicles come out of a pore on the scalp in the one’s lifetime, and a follicle lives for two to three years. Thus if a hair is plucked out, it cuts what might be called the pore’s productivity by up to three years, advancing the time of sparse follicle growth or baldness.
So next time you spot that sliver of silver, reach for the scissors and not the tweezers.
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