2006-09-24 10:38:59 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body
Yeah its true
2006-09-24 10:40:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is an old wives tale because I have been shaving for a long time and sure the hair grows back ,but it does not grow back any thicker than it was in the first place.
2006-09-24 10:42:46 · answer #2 · answered by mrsreadalot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its an old wives tale. It does not grow back thicker. It will grow back at the same thickness. Anyone that says it does either hasn't shaved before, has a thyroid problem or is talking out of their rear end.
2006-09-24 10:48:51 · answer #3 · answered by ty_rosewood 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true.
What happens is the hair grows back likely darker (because the lighter tip was taken off and it is now growing from the root), and feels more coarse because again, the tip is gone and there is an "end". Kind of like a blade of grass. When you let it grow long the tip isn't harsh or hard, but when it is cut, the cut end feels rough and hard.
Shaving does promote growth of the hair that was shaved - But not more hairs.
2006-09-24 10:48:35 · answer #4 · answered by firehorsetwo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
totally not true. When you shave a hair you're cutting the end blunt instead of the soft pointed end it had before. Because it's flat on the end it will seem more course but it's really not.
Trust me - I've been shaving since I was 12. If it actually grew back thicker and darker I'd have a black forest growing under my arms, and I've had to cut through it with a weed wacker!
2006-09-24 10:48:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't grow back twice as thick. If you imagine a hair, it starts off thicker at the bottom and tapers off into a point at the end. When you cut it, it appears thicker/bigger because you're seeing the base of the hair. If you leave your body hair and don't shave, it won't be any thicker than when you started.
2006-09-24 10:43:09 · answer #6 · answered by Sammi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think those hairs grow back twice as thick, but the ones around them that weren't visible before, do grow much more thickly, so you do end up with the effect that you have lots more body hair than when you weren't shaving.
It's a tough call because you don't want to be all hairy, but you also don't want to make it worse, if that's, like, your destiny, you know?
2006-09-24 10:47:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course its a myth! I shave my legs and underarms, if it were true my leg hair etc would be like a wild bush! It appears to grow back thicker because when sprouting through the blunt ends look and feel thicker but when fully re-charged so to speak, they are as they were before you shaved!
Why did you ask this question? Are you hirsute like a Gibbon? ;-)
2006-09-28 06:57:25 · answer #8 · answered by koshkapushkinikov 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only people who believe this myth are the ones who have thick body hair anyway. Someone who natuarally does not have much body hair cannot end up with thick body hair by shaving.
2006-09-24 11:00:05 · answer #9 · answered by Everyone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It completely depends. Personally for me, I'm no hairier than when I started shaving. So yeah - it's pretty much an old wives tale!
2006-09-24 10:41:00 · answer #10 · answered by louise_pink_chick 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been shaving for over 20 yrs,,,it is an old wife's tale for sure..but I have heard if you never start shaving then you never have to...wish I had known that many years ago...
2006-09-24 10:47:37 · answer #11 · answered by char bear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋