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Woman has to shave off half her hair regularly because it gives her headaches

“The thing my partners do notice is the unusual amount of hair I shed every day. There are hairs everywhere in my house!"

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By Fiona Jackson via SWNS

This woman has to regularly cut off up to half her hair - because she has so much that it gives her headaches.

Lola María, 28, went viral after sharing how she cuts out clumps of her incredibly thick tresses using thinning scissors.

Having such long, heavy hair gives her painful headaches when wearing it in a ponytail.

Lola, from Montreal, Canada, said: “I have a lot of hair and it can look like a dream to some people, but for me it’s problematic.

“I’ll just take my thinning shears and go crazy, I’m never afraid of removing too much hair.”

Lola's incredibly thick hair gives her headaches if she doesn't shave parts of it and use thinning scissors

She also has an undercut hairstyle, where the underside is shaved with longer hair over the top, to reduce weight.

She said: “I like having long hair and that’s the main reason why I got an undercut. I can stand longer hair if I only have half of my regular amount.”

Cruel trolls would comment on her video accusing her of lying or that her look was ‘disgusting’ but the software engineer is happy to be an advocate for the style.

She said: “I’ve gotten quite a few messages from girls telling me ‘I have a lot of hair and after seeing your video I got an undercut.'

“So I just keep sharing how I do my own undercut, how I thin my hair, how I style and even how I dye it.

“Throughout my whole life I’ve never found people with as much hair as me, and now they found me on TikTok.”

As a child, Lola would cry when she had to detangle her hair before school.

She said: “I would complain to my mum and she would suggest that maybe shorter hair would be less painful, but I didn’t want to cut my princess-long hair as a seven-year-old.”

She tried to dye her hair for the first time at the age of 15.

“I used pharmacy hair dye and I needed 3 boxes and a half to cover all of my hair!” she said.

“Hairstylists would always mention at the salon that they had never seen this much hair.”

She struggled to find a hairstylist who knew how to handle her thick locks, so she began cutting it herself when she was a teen.

She has only seen a professional three times in the past two years, and only when she wants to get a more radical haircut.

Lola said: “They will cut it as they would usually do with regular hair and I end up with a lot of volume and looking like Dora the Explorer!

“Every time I go to a new salon they add a note to my file saying that cutting my hair takes longer, so next time they book two hours instead of our hour for my haircuts.”

Lola got her first undercut hairstyle when she was 17, where the hair on top of her head is left long, but the back and sides are buzzed short.

She said: “I was hanging out with a friend of mine at her place, we were talking about how insane the amount of hair in my head was.

“She asked me if she could give me an undercut using his brother’s hair clipper

“I really liked it, but I was 17 years old and a boy from school asked me for permission to feel my undercut and then told me it felt like a boy’s head.

“I felt ashamed and I let it grow back.”

Later she went back to her undercut.

"My life is significantly better. I love my undercut, I love being able to rock two different hairstyles at the same time.

“I get a lot of comments on TikTok saying I’m crazy for shaving my head and that I will regret it when I want my hair to grow back. Well, been there, done that!”

She shaves the undercut every two or three weeks which takes about 40 minutes and she thins it out twice each year.

Lola said: “Thinning my hair removes a lot of weight, but also adds a lot of volume, so I do it only when I can’t stand a ponytail anymore without getting a headache.”

She gets headaches every time she tries to pull her hair back into a ponytail or other updo, because her hair is so heavy.

Lola said: “Headaches start with my scalp hurting, the scalp pain then transitions into a headache.

“It’s annoying because my hair is also hot, it keeps me warm during winter but during the summer can be challenging.

“It’s either the ponytail plus headache or not styling my hair and having sweat on my neck all day long.”

Maintaining that much hair costs her up to $100 a month in products.

Even when it’s just shoulder-length, she needs to buy two boxes of hair dye for color, and requires a higher volume of shampoo and conditioner to keep it clean.

She said: “I need extra-large elastic bands, and they often break.

“When you have as much hair as I do you can’t afford for your hair to be unhealthy: dry hair has more volume, oily hair feels heavier, damaged hair breaks easily and becomes frizzy.

When people see Lola’s thick dark tresses they tell her she is lucky, or wonder how she can function with that much weight on her hair.

She said: “The thing my partners do notice is the unusual amount of hair I shed every day. There are hairs everywhere in my house!"

Lola made a TikTok video in December of her doing a hair thinning session and it went viral, racking up 46 million views.

But she is not immune to trolls.

“’You shave your head because your dad abandoned you’ - I seriously get that one a lot, it doesn’t make sense to me at all,” she said

“If you don’t have thick, heavy hair, it might be hard to understand that hair can actually cause headaches.

"For every negative comment on any of my videos I get three positive ones.

“I particularly love seeing comments saying ‘this is so relatable to me’ or ‘I have the same problem’

“Some people like my content and some people hate it, it makes me feel controversial!”

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