Hair

:Hair is also a musical: see Hair (musical) and Hair (movie)

Other information

Notable variations in physical appearance of the top and back of the head are:

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• headgear
• hair color (original or artificial)
• hair type
• haircut, curls, dreadlocks, braids, ponytails, wigs, decorative hairpins, the way the hair is combed or otherwise arranged, or disarranged.

Hair spray, gel, etc. may be used for fixation of the arrangement and may also make it shiny.

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It is commonly claimed that hair and nails will continue growing for several days after death. This is a myth; the appearance of growth is actually caused by the retraction of skin as the surrounding tissue dehydrates, making nails and hair more prominent.

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The hair shafts may also store certain poisons for years, even decades, after death. In the case of Col. Lafayette Baker, who died July 3, 1868, use of an atomic absorption spectrophotometer showed the man was killed by white arsenic. The prime suspect was Wally Pollack, Baker's brother-in-law. According to Dr. Ray A. Neff, Pollack had laced Baker's beer with it over a period of months, and a century or so later minute traces of arsenic showed up in the dead man's hair. Mrs. Baker's diary seems to confirm that it was indeed arsenic, as she writes of how she found some vials of it inside her brother's suitcoat one day.

Related Topics:
Poison - Lafayette Baker - July - 1868 - Arsenic - Wally Pollack - Ray A. Neff - Diary

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