2006-06-06 04:30:58 · 12 answers · asked by Andrea 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
The hair on your body is what most people refer to as peach fuzz. It doesn't grow long like the hair on your head, or for a man his beard, because the hair is not strong enough to grow that long, and its a good thing or we'd all look like apes. The hair is so fine it breaks before it can grow and also falls out before it can grow too long. Did you know each hair follicle has up to three hairs in it? Each in different stages. One being produced in the follicle, one planted firmly in the follicle, and one about to fall out.
I hope this helps.
2006-06-06 04:36:18 · answer #1 · answered by meow 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because some of your body hair only grows to a certain length. The hair on your head can grow very long, but after a while the weight of the hair itself will cause it to fall out. Leg hair is just a shorter length of hair.
2006-06-06 04:34:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your body was designed to regenerate itself - skin cells, torn muscle tissue, even your liver will regenerate if part of it is removed. It's the same with your hair. If your body has hair artificially removed, it will think it is supposed to regenerate the hair, therefore regrowing when you have cut it (by shaving or otherwise). If you do not cut it, no energy will be put into growing it further. It is already exactly right. Your body believes it needs to be covered with hair to stay warm, and so will do its job to maintain that protection. That is also why your repeatedly-shaved leg hair will grow back thicker and coarser - your wonderfully designed body is fighting back with all it has against what it sees as an enemy attacking.
2006-06-06 04:48:19 · answer #3 · answered by montanalilac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because when you shave your hair grows back thicker and faster. It's not like the hair on your head that just keeps growing and growing, it only gets a certain length.
2006-06-06 04:33:43 · answer #4 · answered by datchic412 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
shaving it's like going to a hair salon and cutting your hair, after wards it grows back (thank God!!!). the root of the hair doesn't get destroyed in the process. and even if you wax and the root comes out , it has the ability to regenerate so this is why the hair keeps appearing but after waxing it for a long time the hair gets thinner
2006-06-06 04:35:55 · answer #5 · answered by sorryna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unlike the hair on our head the other hair on our bodies is preset by our genes for the length it should achieve and only grows to the predestined lenght and then breaks off.
2006-06-06 04:39:22 · answer #6 · answered by curious-casper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question i never really thought about it...must be something like arm hair or any other types of hair that doesnt grow longer than a certain length.......
2006-06-06 04:36:07 · answer #7 · answered by greeneyedmommy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it eventually falls out and is replaced, but you have so much hair that you don't realize it when a few fall out.
2006-06-06 04:32:51 · answer #8 · answered by David M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never noticed that before and luckily I never will.
Lasered mine last year!
2006-06-06 04:33:33 · answer #9 · answered by shae 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey!! tht happens with me too
if ur a grl its okay
if ur a boy then SHAME ON U
2006-06-06 04:34:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋