However, we do know that The Starry Night was not Vincent van Gogh's first attempt at painting the night's sky, and by comparing the work to the earlier painting Starry Night Over the Rhone, one is able to make several inferences about how van Gogh felt by this point of his life.
Hair grows about 1/2 inch per month. If the rest of the scalp hair is long, it may take months or years before a shaved area grows sufficiently to match the rest of the hair. After shaving, the hair growing back may appear to be thicker and coarser, because the shaving process removes the natural thin ends of the hair.
This phase can last 2 to 6 years. Hair can grow at the rate of approximately 5 inches per year and any individual hair is unlikely to grow more than one yard long. 2) Catagen - Transitional phase. When the Anagen growth phase comes to an end, hair enters into a Catagen phase which lasts about one or two weeks. During this transitional phase, the hair follicle shrinks to about 1/6th of the normal diameter.