Changes around puberty and pregnancy can affect the function of genes influencing hair shape. And chemotherapy can cause hair to regrow in a different shape for the first few cycles of hair regrowth.
Musician and poet Patti Smith: ‘always evolving’.
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Old women remain the butt of jokes; they are some of society’s most marginalised people. But age also invites us to become our most authentic selves, writes Carol Lefevre.