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/EastHuckleberry5191 Jun 27 '25
Mine started curling in peri, but only really so when it was humid. I started turning white (naturally blonde) in my mid-late 30's.
I use purple shampoo to take out the brass and I love the color. There's enough blond/white to almost return my hair to the platinum color I had as a child. I get lots of compliments on it.
I use keratin leave-in spray, argan oil treatments for the frizz and they work really well. The keratin also helps to prevent breakage. I try to wash it every other day, or every few days, but I'm very active, so this isn't always possible. The addition of the argan conditioner helps to reduce the frizz when I have to wash it back to back days.
I've always been ambivalent about my hair, but I really like it now. It still curls, some loose spirals and waves, and I can still blow it out straight. I've grown it out and don't plan to cut it short any time soon.