testosterone and curly hair?

I'm 28, and over the last year my hair has gone from mostly straight, with lots of frizz when it rains to pretty curly all the time. When I got it cut last week the hair stylist told me that increased testosterone levels from getting older can cause curly hair. Is this true??? I know I've got higher levels of testosterone pulsing through me because I've had those darn chin hairs popping out! Ugh!
never heard of that....dang I must have LOADS of it then. My hair is spiral-curly and has been since birth.Frankly, I do not buy it.

My hair did the same thing. I have always blamed it on hormones because I started breaking out and my hair went from striaght to frizzy to super curly.I was around 27 and had 3 kids by then.I do think that it is related to hormones. I have never heard of anyone else going through it though besides me.. Yea, I am not alone.

Well....I've never heard of this one, but I have always had climate controlled wavy hair, now in my later years it seems straighter......

I developed curley hair at age 37 after having my first child. It is seems hormone related, but I wonder if it is testosterone since it seems to coincide with pregnancy.Quote from Catfish RNMy hair did the same thing. I have always blamed it on hormones because I started breaking out and my hair went from striaght to frizzy to super curly.I was around 27 and had 3 kids by then.I do think that it is related to hormones. I have never heard of anyone else going through it though besides me.. Yea, I am not alone.

I'm pretty sure your hair stylist gave you some inaccurate information. The testestosterone levels in the body do not change significantly for women as they get older-- the estrogen levels do. When you are young higher estrogen levels help to mute those undesirable male secondary sex characteristics such as facial hair, but once after those begin to drop in middle age the testosterone already present in the body is more readily expressed in those secondary sex characteristics.

Quote from jameeladfI'm pretty sure your hair stylist gave you some inaccurate information. The testestosterone levels in the body do not change significantly for women as they get older-- the estrogen levels do. When you are young higher estrogen levels help to mute those undesirable male secondary sex characteristics such as facial hair, but once after those begin to drop in middle age the testosterone already present in the body is more readily expressed in those secondary sex characteristics.

That explains the chin hairs (lucky to not have any of those!), but what about the original question -- the curly hair? Inversley, my sister with the naturally curly hair went stick straight after her first child. Quote from multicollinarityThis is correct. When menopausal women begin estrogen only therapy they often find that those pesky chin hairs go away. The only thing that changed was the increase of estrogen.

I don't know which hormones cause it,( progesterone, estrogen or testosterone) but I for one am still convinced that pregnancy contributed to it. I used to have to get perms, and my hair would not hold a curl,now 4 kids later it takes me an hour and a half to straighten my curly hair!!

Don't know about testosterone, but I think that hormones definitely have something to do with hair texture. I had pin-straight hair during my childhood, and when I hit puberty it curled up. Same thing happened to a cousin of mine. On the other hand, two of my cousins who were born with curly hair had it straighten out when they hit puberty.

It has to be testosterone. I didn't have this much spiral curly hair when I was younger, but it was mostly wavy with a few curls. I hit 13, and all of a sudden I had a full head of perfect curls. Seeing as I'm male, it has to be testosterone. umpiron:

since this information has become available all the curly-haired boys are going to be chased 24-7

I found this question very intresting. I just noticed 2 weeks ago that my hair turned curly or very wavey after I had 4 inches taken off. My hair was long and streight a year ago. I finished nursing school 1 year ago also. I'm 29 years old, have never had a child and wonder why I now have curly hair. I think it is God's Blessing... I like the way it looks. I'm not sure why it happened?