is it true that if you shave you're hair grows back thicker?

Answer 1

As much as we shampoo it, style it, cut it, and fret over it, hair continues to be a mystery to us. We speculate on its nature, especially its propensity for sprouting in our middle years in places we didn't want it to, even as it disappears from locations where we would much rather it had stayed put. We wonder if it continues to grow after we die. (It doesn't.) And we worry that shaving or cutting it will make hair grow back thicker or darker or coarser.

Shavers and clippers take heart: in your quest for tonsorial perfection, you are not creating a larger problem for yourself through your efforts. Cutting does not stimulate new growth. (If it did, those going bald would be shaving afflicted areas to encourage regrowth of what they're losing.) This belief probably stems from the perception that short hair seems to be tougher than longer hair. Hair expert Philip Kingsley recommends thinking of a bamboo cane: a long cane flexes easily, but the same cane cut short feels harder and tougher. Another reason for the belief resides with the naturally finer ends of uncut hair: compare the end of a long-lived hair with that of a hair recently cut or shaved, and you'll see the one is thicker than the other. That could lead the less-than-careful to conclude that the whole of the hair's shaft became thicker as a result of the hair's being cut (which it didn't) rather than to realize that shaving or cutting results in a blunt termination, whereas natural outgrowth concludes in a tapering.

The part of the hair we style is already dead. The living sections lie below the surface of the scalp. Cutting or shaving the extreme end of the dead section isn't going to have an impact on the parts that are alive. Go forth to shave and trim as much as you like — you will not be affecting the intrinsic nature of your hair.

Answer 2

No, absolutely not. That's just an old-wives' tale.
Some people think their hair is thicker, but what is actually happening it that when you shave hair off, you create a 'blunt end' on the hair at the surface of the skin. When it grows a bit, you see and feel all of these blunt ends. When hair is left to grow without shaving it, the ends kind of taper to a fine point, and may appear finer, at least at the tips.
there is nothing you can do to the surface of a hair that can change the sturcutre of how it grows from within the follicle. It is not biologically possible.
If you want to have the hair appear thinner (over time), I suggest waxing. Ripping the hair out by the roots gradually kills off the ability for it to grow. Women who wax their legs/underarms regulary will grow less hair over the years.

Answer 3

It is true, and it is false. If you shave, your hair will appear to grow back thicker, because when you shave the hair grows back at the same rate. This makes it seem like it is growing back thicker. If you leave hair grow you loose hair, so you don't realize that hair is always thick.

Answer 4

It's not true!! But, it will look thicker.
When hair grows naturally it is tapered at the end, which makes it less noticable. When you shave it grows back with a blunt tip, making it appear longer and thicker. Waxing/Nair will let it grow back tappered like natural.

Answer 5

Absolutely not! That is an old wives' tale. Hair growth, colour, coarsness and thickness are determined by genetics. Not your razor. So, shave on!

Answer 6

well i shave my arms and i dont have any problems with it getting thinker. so i think i depends on the person.

Answer 7

Yes indeed that's true

Answer 8

o god, im never going to shave my head! its already soooo thick!

Answer 9

yep

Answer 10

ya