I’ve gotten a whole bunch of questions these past couple of weeks along the lines of “What are you doing to your hair lately? Did you get extensions?”
And as much as I’d like to say either “I am a hairstyling genius” or “Oh, just #blessed”…the truth? I’m doing nothing. (Or at least nothing out of the ordinary; I’ve been using the same products as I usually do and curling it using this technique.) And if you get pregnant, you will also have to do nothing: you will just all of a sudden discover that your hair is PHENOMENAL. Why? Because your hair doesn’t fall out nearly as much when you’re pregnant, so you end up with about six times the amount of hair you’re used to, and it’s all shiny and thick and lovely from the prenatal vitamins. It’s so much fun.
And then, just as you’ve started to settle in and get all “oh, this old thing?” about your phenomenal hair…
it will all go away.
Like, all of it. All at once. Probably in the shower, in huge handfuls, just to maximize the similarities between your life and a horror movie. (This actually happened to me a few months after Indy was born, and what I did was run out of the shower holding the enormous amount of hair that had just fallen off of my head, so that I could show it to Kendrick and have him be horrified, too. He was.)
It’s just hair, though, so not to worry: a few months after it falls out and you panic, it will grow back. Yay, right? Nope. Because it will all grow back at once, and slowly, and so there will be a few months during which you cannot pull back your hair into a ponytail without creating this little spiky halo of shorties around your head that makes it look like you stuck your finger into an electrical socket.
Anyway, I’ve got about three more weeks of this phenomenal-hair thing. Enjoying it while it lasts.
(FYI, hair loss – and how to handle it with some mini-deceptions – is one of the topics I cover in the RG book, in case you’re in this particular life stage and this post freaked you out.)
