I recently heard from a woman who told me that over the last couple of years, she had noticed her hair's part line widening.
In fact, she said that if she compared photos of herself from a few years ago with photos today, her scalp showing through her part line was much more noticeable in the recent photos.
She asked: "now that I suspect there's an issue with my part, I'm starting to notice that some women just show more scalp in their part line.
Why does this happen? Is it normal? Should I worry about it? I don't like how it looks and I worry that it will be very noticeable in the future.
" I'll try to address these concerns in the following article.
Some Women Naturally Have A Wider Part Line: Your part line is that area in your hair right on top of your head where your hair parts and falls on both sides.
This doesn't happen if you pull your hair straight back or put it in a ponytail, but most people see their part line unless they purposely style their hair in a different way.
If your hair is thicker and you have more of it, your part line will often be quite thin or barely noticeable because there are a lot of strands pushing up on both sides.
But, if your hair is thinner or more sparse, you may well have a wider line because there is less hair on both sides.
Some women just normally have finer textured hair or less strands and this has always been true for them.
In fact, many women can look at photos of themselves when they were a child and will notice that their part looks similar then to the way it does now.
In this case, you may not be talking about a hair loss, hair thinning, or androgenic issue because the part that you see now is the one that you have always had and this is what is normal for you.
Sometimes, Your Part Line Is Showing More Scalp Because Or Hair Loss Or Hair Thinning Issues: It can be normal for hair to thin out about as we age.
Few of us have the same head of hair that we had in our teens.
But people without noticeable hair loss issues generally have enough hair to adequately cover all areas of their scalp, including their part.
And sometimes, when this is no longer happening, you'll want to explore whether you have a hair loss, hair thinning, or an androgenic issue happening.
Probably the most common cause of seeing more scalp is the hair thinning condition of androgenic alopecia (or AGA.
) With this condition, not only does more hair fall out (because it is adversely affected by androgens) but the hair that grows back because more fine and miniaturized as it regrows, which means that it takes more hair to provide the same coverage.
Of course, any issue that causes reasonably dramatic hair loss can cause changes in the coverage that you have on your scalp.
If you have less hair (for whatever reason) then you are going to have less coverage to work with.
But, the top of the scalp is a common area where you see typically see androgenic issues, although the presence of a wide part line doesn't always mean that AGA is present.
There are many possibilities.
Sometimes, the coverage is what is normal for the person.
And other times, a hair loss or thinning issue is taking place and still needs to be identified.