What Other Kids Are Reading When you think of your hair, you
probably think of the hair on your head. But there's hair on
almost every part of your body. (Some places that don't have
hair include the lips, the palms of the hands, and the soles of
the feet.) Some of the hair on your body is easy to see, like
your eyebrows and the hair on your head, arms, and legs. But
other hair, like that on your cheek, is almost invisible.
Depending on where it is, hair has different jobs. The hair on
your head keeps your head warm and provides a little cushioning
for your skull. Eyelashes protect your eyes by decreasing the
amount of light and dust that go into them, and eyebrows protect
your eyes from sweat dripping down from your forehead. Hair
Comes From Where? Whether hair is growing out of your head, arm,
or ankle, it all rises out of the skin in the same way. It
starts at the hair root, a place beneath the skin where cells
band together to form keratin (the protein that hair is made
of). The root is inside a follicle