is it true that when a guy shaves that their hair comes in thicker? or is that just a myth?
2006-07-15 15:40:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
the hair will only appear thicker, since when you shave you cut off the nice tapered point of the hair, so as it grows back the hair has a blunt edge giving it a thicker appearance, rather than it coming to a nice fine point.
2006-07-15 16:04:45 · answer #1 · answered by bananie1304 1 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Myth? It is hard to say. What happens when you shave you get split ends under the skin. The hair grows back with the split ends still intact and that casuses an illustuon of 2 hairs growing, when really it is only one folicle. The diameter of the hair does not increase and more hair does not grow. Kinda weid but cool, you can see it if you look cloes enough, two hairs comming from the same place, pull it out and it is one!
2006-07-15 17:12:28 · answer #2 · answered by ray g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sort of.
Hair growth is cyclical. Not all follicles are producing hair all the time. Shaving may "level the playing field" so to speak, and let more hair follicles "catch up" to each other. The recently cut hair will be coarser, but shaving does not "encourage" other follicles to start producing hair spontaneously.
If THAT worked, I could shave my (balding) husband several times this year, and by 2007 he would have a full head of hair.
Just think, there would be no more need for Rogaine....
2006-07-15 15:59:36 · answer #3 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Myth
2006-07-15 17:38:48 · answer #4 · answered by CLBH 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Myth & Fact only grows faster not thicker but faster may seem thicker so take it how you want
2006-07-15 16:53:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true, but it's very difficult to detect by the human eye. Short of collecting all the shavings from each shave and weighing them (assuming there is a constant number of hairs, and you shave at exact intervals, such as daily at 8am, or so forth), you might notice a difference in the weights. However, this is very difficult to do as hairs tend not to cooperate as nicely once shorn.
2006-07-15 15:45:12 · answer #6 · answered by biosafety_level_4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Myth. You cannot create more hair follicles by shaving. Perhaps the new growth will feel stiffer, but not thicker, and not more abundant.
2006-07-15 15:44:36 · answer #7 · answered by Strange question... 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it is mostly true, but does not apply to all people, it is true, if you do shave at a younger age, your beard hair will grow faster and thicker every time, but doesnt apply to everybody
2006-07-15 15:47:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Myth: hair growth is genetically determined.
2006-07-15 15:44:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the blunt cut of the beard makes it coarser for sure and yes it thickens, to some extent.
2006-07-15 15:46:03 · answer #10 · answered by kiss 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋