Is it true that if you shave your hair it will grow back thicker? And if so why?

Answer 1

No thats not true.

SHAVING

Shaving is one of the least expensive and probably the easiest way to manage unwanted hair. You can use it in the privacy of your own home and while traveling as well. Using the razor of your Significant Other doesn't cause nearly as many relationship fractures as does leaving the cap off the toothpaste so it doesn't contribute to the divorce rate either.

Shaving does not cause hair to return thicker, coarser, darker or contribute to more hair growth. All of these are Old Electrologist's Tales with no scientific support. The only effect shaving has on hair follicles is to make the dormant follicle (telogen) go to the active (anagen) but this is not a stimulation of growth because it does not affect latent (not producing a noticeable hair) follicles to become terminal (produce a noticeable hair with color and/or length). The conversion of latent follicles to terminal follicles is accomplished exclusively by the natural biochemistry of the individual.

Many people do not believe this because they will say "I never had dark hairs there until I shaved it off" as proof. What really happens is the normal biochemistry of the individual had begun the conversion process. Then, as the hair became a little more noticeable, they decided to shave it. As mentioned above, this shaving will put the dormant follicle back into the active anagen phase. Because the normal biochemistry of the body had already started stimulating that hair follicle to the terminal stage, when the follicle goes back into the anagen phase, the hair shows up darker or more noticeable.

Young men begin shaving during early adolescence as a Rite of Passage into adult manhood. This shaving process does not cause a moustache or beard to grow. Some people believe it does because the beard and moustache of the young adolescent gets darker. If the young man had not shaved, the beard and moustache would develop anyway. A similar thing happens to girls in adolescence when they start shaving their legs.

Answer 2

Nope, it really is only a delusion. Hair only looks thicker after shaving because the top of the hair is blunt from being decrease. This makes the hair look thicker at the same time as saved short.

Answer 3

No, its not true, if it was men would have logs growing out of their faces.....

Answer 4

No, it isn't true.