Yep - I always start to shed about this time of year.

Glad to find out it's not just me. I had been noticing more hair shed in the shower. And I thought OMG!  Am I doing something wrong? Does my hair hate the new products? Glad to find out it's nothing scary like that. Apparently 'tis the season to be shedding. 

Yeppers - summer is always the season to be shedding, and growing in the new hairs.  I've noticed that if I don't keep my hair clean like if I wash it only once a week I will loose a lot but if I wash it daily I shed less.  I also wonder the same thing too livingandlovingx3 about if my hair was liking what I was doing to it as far as washing it only once a week.  Or, once daily.

Me too!!

its happening again!! 

I think I shed year round!  Unless it's my husband's hair that I'm seeing on the floor!!(Shhhh,don't say anything to him!)

My hairdresser says it's normal to lose about 10-12 hairs/day and it is normal to shed in the summer.  We had a very chilly early summer; it didn't get really warm until July, so shedding in late summer wouldn't be unexpected.

I've always been accused of being a major shedder.  The reason why my dad preferred my hair short which makes no sense to me as length shouldn't have any influence on how much hair you shed though some say that the longer your hair, the fewer hairs you actually shed.  I'm just finding that hair cut and length makes no difference to me.  My hairs are dark and the diameter is wide so perhaps that's why it appears as if I lose more hairs than fx. hub who has short, fine, blond hairs?

I thought 50+ hairs was normal.  I think I lose more than 12 hairs a day yet I don't experience any thinning and my hair amount is already sparse so I would notice if there was a sudden thinning.  So I think I'm a year round shedder too.

Well, this may or may not help, but I used to be a dog groomer, and (bear with me here) we used to have people bring in their Labrador Retrievers all the time to get them clipped with a 10-blade (almost down to the skin).  When I asked the vet tech about this, saying that it seemed silly to clip a short-haired dog, she told me that they shed less when you clip them.  When I looked at her like she was silly, she clarified, saying that it seems like they shed less because the hair shaft length is much shorter.

I've read in numerous places, though, that it's normal to shed 50-100 hairs daily.  Also, with long hair I've found that it looks like you've shed more hairs than you have because the hair is all coiled up and bent around.  I used to think I lost at least 100 hairs a day, but when I took the time to count, found that it was in fact closer to 50.

YesitsReal wrote on Sep 25^th, 2009 at 11:01pm:


This will (with your identity anonymous) be copied and pasted to my dad if he ever brings up the shedding topic again!   I actually think he can understand it better if explained in comparison to dogs.