Growing up, I was always jealous of the girls with long, thick hair because it seemed like the could do anything they wanted with it. My hair, on the other hand, is not only permanently short (it never grows past my shoulders, ever), but it is also thin and extremely fine; therefore, I can never do anything with it.
Everywhere you look, you see articles complaining about the struggles of thick hair, but after nineteen years of living with my thin, fine hair, I would argue that people with thin hair have a lot more struggles. Here are just eight of them.
1. You have to wash your hair every single day
All of these articles with titles like “Things girls do that guys will never know,” always list that girls don’t wash their hair every day. What do you mean girls don’t wash their hair every day?! I have to scrub mine twice every single freaking morning if I want to look presentable. As every single girl with thin, fine hair will tell you, if you don’t wash your hair every day, then it looks scraggly, stringy, greasy, and gross.
2. Want to color your hair? Ha, ha... that’s funny
It’s a good thing I absolutely love my hair color because I’m stuck with it forever. The chemicals in hair color will burn fine hair and destroy it. I mean there’s probably a specific type of hair dye out there that wouldn’t destroy fine hair, but it’s probably super expensive — at least, I would imagine it is. The same thing goes for getting a perm.
3. You have to practically burn your own hole in the ozone layer every time you do anything with your hair
Thin, fine hair doesn’t care if you want to look stylish or nice; it absolutely hates hair clips, curling irons, and everything else. The only way you can get any hairstyle to actually stay is by spraying a ton of hairspray in your hair until it’s so stiff that it doesn’t move at all. And sometimes, that doesn’t even work.
4. Frizz and static galore
Thin, fine hair is always frizzy. Humidity? Frizz. Wind? Frizz. Putting on your clothes? Frizz. Brush it? Frizz. Literally, fine hair is frizzy all the time. Sometimes, it’s so bad that you literally can’t do anything with it. You can’t even pull it back some days.
5. Everything damages it
Literally, everything. Heat, hair clips, hairstyles, and everything else. As a result, fine hair always has obvious split ends. This also contributes to the fact that it always looks frizzy.
6. It has no volume
What even is volume? When your hair is thin, the only way you get volume is by having short hair. While short hairstyles can be cute (when they’re done right), you can forget doing cute updos and braids and ponytails and anything else short of a. pining your bangs back or b. wearing a headband (and even that sometimes doesn’t look right).
7. Bad haircuts happen frequently
The only way it looks like my hair has any volume is when it’s cut short and layered. I’ve been to hairstylists who have done an amazing job, and then I’ve had hairstylists completely ruin my hair. One particular example that comes to mind is the time I went to my local Fiesta hair salon and asked for layers. The stylist on duty gave me layers alright, by pinning up half my hair and shaving the rest of the hair she left hanging down.
I’m sure most people with thin, fine hair have similar horror stories.
8. You just can’t win no matter what you do
Honestly, this. If you don’t pull it back, it looks like crap. If you pull it back, not only do you damage it, but it also looks like crap. If you don’t cut your hair, you don’t have volume, but if you cut your hair, you can’t do anything with it. It’s always frizzy, but when you try to fix it, it gets damaged. It’s a never-ending struggle because every day’s a bad hair day.
Girls with thick hair better thank their lucky stars that they don’t have deal with this on a daily basis because the struggle is truly real
