So, the blog kind of got away from me, basically for two reasons:
- The hypomanic high that propelled me through February and March and the first part of April gave way, as it inevitably had to, to some sluggish, lethargic, perpetually-exhausted unpleasantness. Whereas I had been enjoying inordinate amounts of free time in the first few months–because I only needed to sleep 4 hours–suddenly most of my unaccounted-for moments were going to naps.
- I started helping mod the /r/HaircareScience board. I noticed that some of the writing that I used to be doing for the blog was now being done as comments on the board. Which got me thinking...why not pull some of my longer, more thoroughly-researched pieces back over here? Which brings us to today: redditor /u/mrs_shrew kindly agreed to have her original question replicated here with my response. You can click here to visit the entire thread on Reddit (consider joining us on the board!). :I thought about rewriting just my response into more of an essay type thing, but I think the Q&A format is fun and easy to get into, plus...the May doldrums are still hovering around and I'm feeling lazy. So! Let's take a look at our question, shall we?
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Mrs. Shrew has a question about the humble cuppa joe:
Has anyone tried a coffee hair wrap?I read somewhere once that the caffeine stimulates growth...is there any truth to this?I thought I would try it so I made a cup of strong coffee (3spoons of instant in half a teacup) and soaked my hair for a couple of hours and it seemed to make it thicker or was that just the shafts being swollen?
