Shaving Myth
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It's probably a myth; from a subjective perception there's something to it, but I guess that's just because of the difference between being clean shaven and then having the hair grow back again.
If you shave your pubic hair it will grow back in a month or so.
If you don't shave, it won't grow that fast, nor will you shed that much hair that fast.
If you don't shave, it won't grow that fast, nor will you shed that much hair that fast.
Indeed, but it is based on the very first shave a teenage boy has. After removal of the first fluffy downs a grittier, harder, more beardy growth will appear.
Regardless of what hair you are shaving, shaving it does not make it grow faster. You are simply severing the hair at the point it comes out of the skin, the follicle continues to work in exactly the same way it did before.
Hair, especially short hair like on your arms or pubic hair appears not to grow fast because each hair can only grow to a predetermined length and then it falls out, it is being continually replaced and therefore appears not to grow. It is in fact always growing at a constant rate though.
The reason why hair appears to grow back thicker is because as hair grows it wears and becomes thinner, this means the hair at the point of the follicle IS thicker, giving the illusion that it is growing back thicker.
It only looks as if it is growing in thicker because of the greater apparent width of the short hairs as they grow in before they can taper and curl and whatever. It's definitely a myth; I've read doctors talking about that in several major newspapers.
I never really thought about it, just always assumed it was true. Part of it may be that when hair is very short it feels like sandpaper.
http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/hairgrow.asp
Seems there are a lot of myths about hair.
I recommend this also. And, after a while, you will finally kill the follicles and it will stop coming back. Of course new ones will form to replace them but over the years that happens less and less.
And I should know since I started fighting the "Uni-brow War" when I was thirteen. Now, after twenty years, I have almost won. A few tweezings in the middle and presto, I am ready to roll. But I have bigger problems these days. The two have begun to get bushy like my grandpa's.
Now I have to continually get my eyebrows shaped on a regular basis or it looks like I have two great big fluffy caterpillars marching across my forehead. I am probably the least vain person you will meet but I am willing to be girlie once a month and go for a quick waxing just to make sure those suckers are kept from taking over my face.
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^ Already done. I have them bad boys taken care at the same time. 
I get my eyebrows waxed too, once a month. Takes care of the ear hair too.
All through high school I had to keep my legs shaved from about mid-shin down. Unfortunately, it kept growing back. What a gigantic pain in the ass that was.
All through high school I had to keep my legs shaved from about mid-shin down. Unfortunately, it kept growing back. What a gigantic pain in the ass that was.
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I heard that blonde hair grows faster than other colored hair.
Also, something must be wrong with me; I have hardly any armpit hair but my sisters can shave and a week later look like French women. I tried shaving thinking that the shaving trick might make it grow back thicker.
Strange how body hair has a predetermined length head hair keeps growing and that if you shave a spot off a cat for surgery, it'll grow back to the same length as the rest and stop.
Something else curious; I like to grow a goatee but when I shave my face completely clean I notice the area of where my goatee would be grows slightly thicker and darker than the rest. Maybe the opposite of the myth that shaving makes hair grow back thicker is true. Maybe letting it grow for a long time and then shaving to make it thicker is truer than shaving more often?
Also, something must be wrong with me; I have hardly any armpit hair but my sisters can shave and a week later look like French women. I tried shaving thinking that the shaving trick might make it grow back thicker.
Strange how body hair has a predetermined length head hair keeps growing and that if you shave a spot off a cat for surgery, it'll grow back to the same length as the rest and stop.
Something else curious; I like to grow a goatee but when I shave my face completely clean I notice the area of where my goatee would be grows slightly thicker and darker than the rest. Maybe the opposite of the myth that shaving makes hair grow back thicker is true. Maybe letting it grow for a long time and then shaving to make it thicker is truer than shaving more often?
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