Sirius/Oldman's tatoos & hair

[alshainofthenorth]

*looks up from the paperback copy of Night Watch for a few minutes*

I'm going to be a bad girl and veer slightly off topic on the subject
of hair (what can I say, I love researching subjects that are
completely pointless.) One of the chief chemicals in the human body
that influences hair growth is oestrogene, that's the reason women's
hair grows a bit faster, while high testosterone levels causes male
pattern baldness. Average growth rate is about 0,44 mm a day (that's
half an inch a month for you obstinate Anglo-Saxons). Third fact is
that an individual hair lives only for so long, between 2 and 8 years
(again, longer for females) before the hair enters a resting stage and
eventually falls out. All the 100-150 000 hairs on your head are in
different stages of development. Finally, once the hair is about a
foot long, the growth rate slows down to about half.

Applying this to Sirius' hair (assuming maximum growth rates and
neglecting things such as poor nutrition) we get a maximum of three
feet. Elbow-length (to my elbows, at least.) Drat, it always
disappoints me when empiric evidence agrees with theory.

Now back to Night Watch and BBC's Dame Kathleen Ferrier evening (love
their netradio)

Alshain