Hair Growth Patterns: Calling All German's

[Guest Crossroads]

So, since I've started Testosterone, I've noticed some surprising stuff.

I wasn't expecting anything when I took my measurements, but Angie has kept insisting that she is seeing changes already. I've been shooing her, telling her that's probably not true. But I noticed a lot of changes. Including hair growth.......

I don't have any pictures to show, but I'm getting baby hairs starting to grow below my natural hairline. My upper lip hair is becoming mustache hair. I haven't gotten much around the chin, but baby fluff around my lower sideburns.

We all know that heritage and genetics decide this stuff. Just wondering if there are any others of German descent having lots of hair growth. Angie, my partner (maybe I should start calling her my fiancee), has a friend who's husband is German. When she found out I was German, all she had to say was, "Jules is going to be SOOOO hairy".

And for everyone else, how might your HERITAGE affect hair growth? Many people are all mixed up nowadays, but I'm only German and Russian Hebrew. I know we've talked about this before, but this time I want to hear more about heritage than your mother's father and all that. It's very interesting to me.

(Also, as an update, I put my name change papers in last week, and it appeared for the first time today. I'm psyched.)

[Guest April63]

I'm half German and half English. I'm not the hairiest beast around, thankfully, but I do have a lot of hair on my legs, chest, back, stomach, arms, and legs. I think my brother is hairier than me. Are Germans supposed to be hairy?

April

[Guest Deeedoo]

You...are...so...lucky!! I wish so much that I could have hair like you! I don't know where my dad is from, but he is much hairier than most males I know about (except his head; he's going bald there). I have no idea why. He's from Georgia like you, so maybe you're related to him.

[Guest Donna Jean]

(Also, as an update, I put my name change papers in last week, and it appeared for the first time today. I'm psyched.)

Well, Hon.....you do seem to be getting furry a bit....and of course you would know...I have no idea if it has anything to do with German heritage, though...the first thing that I thought of when I read this was my friend Dave Zimmer..German way back and bald as a cue ball....Is he the exception to the rule? IDK...

But, don't look at his head in the sunlight!

And seriously....congratz on the name change....that is wonderful news...Good on you!

****BIGG HUGG****

Donna Jean

[Sally]

I don't know about the German but the Russian Jewish group tended to have a lot of hair on the face!

It also depends mostly on your grandfather's hair patern - don't ask me why but it seems to be a more acurate indicator than your father.

I almost forgot - congratulations!

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest OneOutOfnOne]

I'm German, Italian, Russian, and Irish. Considering this, I am remarkably not hairy. My arm and leg hair is pale enough that you can hardly tell it's there from more than a few feet away.

[Guest MrAwesome]

2 words, German and Irish. Mostly German, only about 1/8 Irish, give or take. I have decent hair growth and I'm not on T at all yet... my problem is that I have light brown hair. So all of my body hair just looks the same as my hair color. It sucks

[Guest Crossroads]

My mother was adopted and I have no connection to my biological family on her side. All I have to go on really is heritage. And German women are very hairy. I had quite a bit more hair than most of the girls I knew. There was one other girl in school that was German and also very hairy. As far as males, I'm not so sure. Are Russians hairy, too? Hmmm....Jews in general tend to be very hairy except on their heads, haha!

Deeedo: Although many people I know really are related, because my family isn't from Georgia (I'm a first generation Georgian, w00t), I'm not related to anyone from here. But I could know him and not know it! You never know!

Thanks for the congrats. I'm all giddy. I cut out the newspaper and am laminating it. And I actually saw another person changing from a female name to a male name. As far as I know, there is no support group or resource in my city, and I'm about 2 1/2 hours from the big city. I've been going there for therapy and stuff. I felt good seeing it, in a weird way, you know?

Heritage and genetics are very interesting. I can't wait to hear more.

[Guest Zabrak]

I'm half German. Four months on T and I haven't noticed hair growth on the face yet.

[Guest Crossroads]

Maybe y'all are right. Maybe it's the Russian side............

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

I'm pretty much English through and through. I'm kinda hairy.

There a cadre of Germans in my department, fresh from Germany. None of them are particularly hairy. One of them has small, delicate hands that have never seen manual labor...but that's besides the point.

[Guest Liam]

I'm half Lebanese and half European mutt. Most of that second half is German. My Lebanese relatives are all very hairy. My dad is frighteningly hairy. Most of the relatives on the European side of the family aren't very hairy, particularly with respect to body or facial hair. I seem to take after the Lebanese side of the family when it comes to hair. Even pre-T, I have a lot of body hair. This scares me. I don't want to be super hairy like my dad. The amount of hair I have right now is just fine, though a bit more facial hair would be nice.

[Guest harvester52]

On Germans being hairy -- My family on my mom's side are German and Indian, and they're all gorillas, including myself. LOL

[Guest bronx]

I'm African-American. I'm adopted and I was told that I might be mixed because I have curly hair and I'm really hairy. Most black guys don't have alot of hair. I do Everywhere. I was hairy b4 T and it won't seem to stop growing 2yrs later. My wife recently told me that the hair on my back is starting to get thick, and nowI have to shave every day a year ago it was every three days. I heard that it takes 2-5 yrs to get the full effects of T, so oh well, just call me short, brown, and furry.

[Guest Martin]

I'm pure German; in fact, I was born in Germany. I've been back several times. I've never noticed that Germans are any hairier than the average American from Colorado - except that the shaving practices for women and girls are a bit different. While my dad has a full beard, none of my brothers do (and the youngest is twenty-four). I don't either, and I've been on T for over four years. However, both of my uncles have full beards. All the males in my immediate family have some belly and/or chest hair (as far as I can remember), but no one has whole lot. I do have some shoulder/back hair, but I think I might be the only one in my family with that. My arm hair is really light blond, but my leg hair is a bit darker. My brothers all have darker hair, probably because their head hair is darker.

[Guest RainBird]

I'm part German, Italian, Irish and Australian Aboriginal.. I really don't know how to compare my hairiness, etc with others.. I'm a 'Bitser' (bit of everything lol)

[Guest DanM]

Native American here and hair growth on the body is minimal at best, but we do grow head fulls of hair very fast. I have to have a hair cut every 3 weeks. My moms new husband is from Germany and he said it depends on the part of Germany you come from whether or not your a gorilla. Women from the north tend to grow more body hair than those from the south.

[Guest sphere]

Well, I'm over 3/4 German, and everyone in my family has very thick hair (not sure if that has anything to do with it but hey). No male person in my family is bald.

I can't speak for myself though. I have thick hair, but I'm not on testosterone yet so I can't say much about facial hair. Though, at least on my father's side of the family, there hasn't been much luck in the facial hair department.

So I don't really know.