Where Does Hair Come From?

When I mean hair, I mean all hair: facial, head, chest, arms, legs, ears, nose, toes and yeh, those places at the epicentre. Obviously, strands of thousands of metres of hair aren’t lying dormant inside our bodies just being pumped out incrementally. How does this hair magically appear? I am 49 years old, and I have no idea the answer to this question.

The reason I pondered this, apart from being a bit ‘loco’ is I have noticed in the early mornings I sometimes feel my cheeks scratch as if hair is threading its way through. And I imagine they are, little by little; just piercing their way through and I don’t like how it feels. It’s prickly. After a week I find I have to shave because the itchy feeling on my cheeks and neck drives me crazy.

Nasal, eyebrow and ear hair seem to bloom like flowers in the spring. I’m sure everyone wanted to know that, but it is what it is. Where am I going with this? I have no idea, but shortly will answer this question: Where does hair come from? I even considered getting waxed all over, so I didn’t need to keep shaving; here, there and everywhere. The price I found was exorbitant even though over the long term I probably would have saved a bucket-load…on hair and electricity costs.

I’m sorry to put my readers through this. Anyhow, so let’s find out where hair comes from, which I’ve never searched for or looked at my entire life. I always thought hair was bad on me, but so it goes; hair protects your skin and traps particles like dust around your eyes and ears. So why does it make me want to shave after about a week? The reason that I don’t understand where hair comes from is because of this:

Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis.

Comments are welcome.

Reference:
1: Hair – Wikipedia