Shaving regularly makes it grow back faster?! Caveman's tale or Truth?

[Indecizion]

Traditional shaving does not affect the hair cells under the skin that actually produce the hair, so they don't even know anything is going on. It's kind of like how dead skin on the epidermis doesn't get effected by light scratching, the skin underneath that actually produces those cells don't have to change or adapt.

So... no.

yeah right here, its just an illusion due to the lack of hair for a period of time that when you let it grow youre like wow, plus like i shaved daily from 16 to 19 and so when i stopped to grow a beard my hair molecules had been maturing for 3 years unnoticed so of course it grew faster than i remembered it to.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

I think it's more an age thing really, as you get older it grows faster.

 

[lacktheknack]

I read about this in a book of urban myths.

So... no. And it certainly doesn't work for me.

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ALL I WANTED WAS A SOUL PATCH! HELP ME OUT HERE, GOD!

 

[lacktheknack]

I found that it does seem to grow faster the older you get.
16 - Shave once every month
17 - twice a month
18 - Weekly
19 - every few days.

Fuck you puberty, you're such a pain in the arse!

Lucky you! I have had to shave every two days for about a year, and I'm only seventeen.

 

[Ultrajoe]

There are several foods you can eat to up the rate of growth, but shaving can only alter the appearance of the hair itself... as has been said, many times.

What I wanted an excuse to say is that I wish my head-hair would hurry the josh up. I'm getting dangerously close to a mullet aright now, and I'm determined to break through the barrier of bad.

Spoiler: Bad

Spoiler: Good

Look at that air of confidence and power. Truly a man greater than other men. I want his hair.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Actually it doesn't.

For hair to grow thicker the follicle must be stimulated, as this is beneath the skin and only stimulated by hormones shaving the hair will not make it grow quicker or thicker.

But does it grow more when it comes back? Before I shaved for the first time my dad and brother told me if I shaved my peach fuzz would be less peach fuzz and more beard, like there'd be more of it

It'll only be thicker, or more dense, due to your growth. As time goes by the more hormones released in the body and the older you get means that hair growth will be increased but its just due to the passage of time, not because of shaving.

Although I think I read somewhere that shaving sometimes makes hair appear thicker or makes it look as tohugh there is more due to the angle that the hairs are cut. Not too sure about that one though.

Thats probably it, thanks

 

[Deadlydorito]

There are several foods you can eat to up the rate of growth, but shaving can only alter the appearance of the hair itself... as has been said, many times.

What I wanted an excuse to say is that I wish my head-hair would hurry the josh up. I'm getting dangerously close to a mullet aright now, and I'm determined to break through the barrier of bad.

Spoiler: Bad

Spoiler: Good

Look at that air of confidence and power. Truly a man greater than other men. I want his hair.

You will never look un-sexy ultrajoe. take it from me.

 

[inglioti]

FALSE. common misconception - read a book a while ago about such wives tales. they actually did studies where they shaved one leg and not the other, let it grow back and asked people to compare. it isn't noticeable. and if it were true, bald men could just shave their heads to avoid baldness. the doctor who wrote the book theorised that the reasons people thought so was that because when hair first grows back, it is both thicker and darker than normal hair because it hasn't yet been bleached by the sun and hasn't yet been worn slightly by clothing etc, thus retaining the "thicker" appearance.

AKSHUALLY
just read the title of the post. about how it grows back faster - oops. oh well. too much writing for me to delete it. enjoy.

 

[teisjm]

So this means i've been walking aroudn with an itchy ball-sack for years, and it won't help me become as awesome a love-making machine as Zohan, from the movie "you don't mess with the Zohan"?
Damn.

 

[TurkeyProphet]

If this were true then 80 year old men would have to shave a couple of times a day if they had shaved every day of their lives.