Which is why the hair fall starts exactly when the wedding planning gets serious.
Losing 50 to 100 hairs a day is normal. Everybody does. What worries brides is a sudden increase — hair in the comb, hair on the pillow, a thinner ponytail.
The useful fact is the delay. Hair usually falls about three months after the thing that caused it — an illness, a crash diet, a fever, a big stress, stopping a medicine. So the cause is rarely last week. It is usually three months ago.
Which means whatever you fix today shows up in about three months. If your wedding is in six months, you have time. If it is in six weeks, be honest with yourself: this is now a hairstyling problem, and a good stylist solves it.
Eating properly. Crash diets before a wedding are one of the most common causes of the hair fall that follows. A blood test if the fall is heavy. Low iron and thyroid problems are common, checkable, and treatable. Gentle handling. Tight ponytails, daily heat and harsh chemical treatments all add to it. Sleep. Not glamorous, genuinely relevant.
Starting a crash diet for the lehenga fitting. This is the single most common self-inflicted cause of pre-wedding hair fall. Trying five oils and shampoos in two months. You will never know which helped. Pick one and keep it. A keratin or smoothing treatment two weeks before. Give it at least a month, in case it does not suit your hair.
Get a blood test if the fall is heavy. Eat properly, however tight the blouse. One routine, three months, no switching.
Often stress, a diet change, or an illness from about three months earlier. Hair works on a delay. A blood test for iron and thyroid is worth doing if the fall is heavy.
Visible regrowth takes about three months at minimum. If your wedding is sooner, focus on gentle handling and a hairstyle that works with the hair you have.