Interesting Facts

Cutting your hair does not make it grow faster. (It's one of those old wives tales.  Hair only seems to grow faster if you have it cut short, because any growth is simply more noticeable when your hair is short than when it is long. In addition, when your hair is short it tends to look healthier and fuller and it doesn't break as much as long hair. That said, I prefer keeping my hair shoulder length, because it means I don't have to go to the hairdressers as often when it is longer.) Discuss going to the hairdressers here.

Hair grows at a rate of about 1 centimetre a month. (But it can only grow so long, and that is down to the individual and their age. Typically, waist-length hair is 80-90 cm long, and will have taken about seven years to grow, but as you grow older the growth period of hair drops to about three years, so your hair will only grow to about shoulder length before it falls out or is brushed out. I never realised hair was so fussy!)