The front, bang section of my hair is definitely thinner (as in less dense) and shorter then the rest of my hair. Considerably so, in my opinion, but no one else in my life who I ask seems to notice the difference lol. The growth rate for the rest of my hair is probably a little above .5" per month; for the front section, it's around .25"
erplexed
This is the area of my hair that was always "left out" back in my pre-journey days...when I didn't give a hoot about healthy hair. I'd flat iron and curl it daily, this *after* spritzing and sometimes gel-ing it to death to get it to behave like my expensive weave. Poor thing...it probably just gave up eventually and hasn't ever fully recovered from the years of abuse
In the new year, I'm going to focus on stronger PTs for this section of my hair, and continue applying castor oil to my scalp as I've started back doing over the last month. I'm hoping to continue to see this area improve in 2012.