I recently heard from a woman who told me that in recent years, she had noticed the part in her hair widening. In fact, she said that if you compared photos of herself from a few years ago with photos from today, her scalp that showed through the line on her part was much more noticeable in recent photos. She asked, “Now that I suspect there is a problem with my part, I am starting to notice that some women just show more scalp on the part line. Why is this happening? Is it normal? Should I be concerned about that? I don’t like the way it looks and I’m worried it will show a lot in the future. ” I will try to address these concerns in the next article.
Some women naturally have a broader parting line: The part line is the area of your hair just on the top of your head where your hair is parted and falls on both sides. This doesn’t happen if you pull your hair back or put it in a ponytail, but most people see their part unless they deliberately style their hair in a different way. If your hair is thicker and you have more, the parting 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 sparser, you may have a wider line because there is less hair on both sides.
Some women typically have finer textured hair or fewer strands and this has always been the case for them. In fact, many women can look at photos of themselves as children 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, thinning hair or an androgenic problem because the part you see now is the one you have always had and this is what is normal for you.
Sometimes your parting line shows more scalp due to hair loss or hair thinning issues: It can be normal for hair to thin as we age. Few of us have the same hair we had in adolescence. But people without noticeable hair loss problems generally have enough hair to adequately cover all areas of their scalp, including part of it.
And sometimes when this is no longer happening, you will want to explore whether you have hair loss, thinning hair, or an androgenic problem. Probably the most common cause of seeing more of the 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 grows back because it thinner and miniaturized as it grows back, meaning that more hair is needed to provide the same coverage.
Of course, any problem that causes reasonably dramatic hair loss can cause changes in the coverage you have on your scalp. If you have less hair (for whatever reason), you will have less coverage to work with. But, the upper part of the scalp is a common area where androgenic problems are normally seen, although the presence of a wide division line does not 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 problem is occurring and has yet to be identified.