No it's not just hair!

[Nope]

There's no such thing as "healthy hair" - only the hair follicle itself is alive (the part which is embedded in the part of your skin that's alive), the rest of the strand is dead.

In the 80's I desperately wanted curly hair so I spent money on spiral perms. My hair will not hold curl even with chemical help and I ended up with very frizzy, fragile hair that broke easily.  That is what people mean by unhealthy hair.

Very curly hair runs in my husband's family and I go in circles with my younger son begging him to stop cutting off his curls. I think that they are gorgeous. His hair is a lot like the character, Nathan in The Misfits. There is a huge difference between how my son's hair feels to the touch and how mine felt when I used to try to force it to curl. His hair is healthy, mine was not.

The photo in the spoiler is not pornagraphic, I promise. It is just really big. LOL This is what my son's hair looks like.

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