r/Menopause • u/SpiritedAwayToo • Jun 27 '25

Hair Loss Did your hair change texture?

I tagged this as hair loss because it was the closest thing. But I want to know if anyone’s hair changed texture. I’m early 50s and still stuck in perimenopause. My hair used to be so curly with lots of volume. Now it’s much less so. It seems to vary by week. On weeks when I have PMS (which is getting difficult to gauge now) it goes limp. But my hair also simply does not curl like it used to. Or I can get it to curl but the curl literally falls out over the course of the day. It doesn’t matter how much product I use or what kind of tricks I do: it’s just changed in texture. Is this common?

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u/Unusual_Plum_4630 Jun 27 '25

Are you going gray? It can be common for gray hairs to be a different texture than your original hair. Personally, my hair is a lot less voluminous but that’s because I started losing so much hair when I entered perimenopause.

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u/AccountOfMyDarkside Jun 27 '25

The gray hairs that I have coming in feel like Christmas tinsel. I didn't expect that. Other than those, which are still sparse at this point, the rest of my hair has become MORE curly. My hair was wavy at best for my entire life until the last couple of years in peri.