Naming the body parts

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Could you answer the following questions, please?

1) When I show my hair to students and ask "What's this?", what should be my or their answer: "It's hair" or "It's the hair" ?

2) When I show somebody's hair in a picture, what should I say? The same as in the first case?

3) When I show some particular hair of somebody in a picture, which I mentioned earlier, for example; then what should I say? "It's the hair of [somebody's name here]" ?
(I don't mean here only several hairs but whole hair on the head)

I would be grateful for your answer.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

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Quark31 · Answer

Nice to see you here

I wanted to make sure because I didn't give all the details in my previous posts and I didn't want to bother you again.

Now I think I've made my question finally clear.

I also read that we use "the" if we want to substitute a personal pronoun so I'm still not sure if I should say "It's the hair" or "It's hair".

Why shouldn't I say "It's the hair" meaning "It's my hair"? (Is it only because "hair" is uncountable here?)

Of course, I mean only the situations I mentioned in my post. I know I'm going into details but I want to be sure and I want to know how to explain that to somebody else's.

Regards

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