If yes, then please...explain.
2006-10-04 11:17:19 · 17 answers · asked by Richard H 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
I think it's a myth.
2006-10-04 11:19:53 · answer #1 · answered by DawnDavenport 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's just a bunch of BS. It will *look* like it's growing back thicker because shaving cuts it bluntly and all of the hairs start growing out at the same time.
2006-10-04 11:19:56 · answer #2 · answered by Demon Doll 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
bs. totally.
shaving cannot change the structure of your hair. impossible. if it did, it would be the same for cutting your hair, waxing your hair, burning your hair off etc. etc.
what shaving does do (that is different from waxing, and is where all this nonsense comes from) is that it cuts the hair off at mid shaft. hair tapers out from root to tip and it is thicker at the middle point than it is at either ends. therefore, when you shave you are cutting it at the fattest part of the hair. when this grows back, therefore, it has a big, blunt, fat hair growing back out, not a dainty, fine hair like after you wax.
therefore it LOOKS thicker when it grows back, but only because the hair is being cut at a thicker point... if that makes sense...
2006-10-04 11:31:07 · answer #3 · answered by Lucy Goosey 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is no, when you shave, the hair is cut off bluntly, making it appear thicker (as opposed to when it grows naturally and has a tapered, thinner end). It also may look thicker because it is darker and has not been lightened by the sun at all.
2006-10-04 11:21:03 · answer #4 · answered by emerald eyes 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hair does not grow back thicker after shaving.
2006-10-04 11:25:31 · answer #5 · answered by kearneyconsulting 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I saw something about this on the discovery channel or something. It looks like it comes back thicker. When you shave, you make the end of the hair flat, like the end of a noodle. When hair grows naturally, it comes out pointy. The pointy hair looks like it is thinner since you see the end of the hair the most.
2006-10-04 11:36:00 · answer #6 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If your hair is growing in it tends to make it more coarse sometimes it can split a hair such that you get two hairs. But if you are loosing hair it is not going to help much.
Tweezing and waxing tends to damage the root such that it is less apt to grow back much less as quickly whereas the body probably thinks when you shave that it is being worn off such that you need coarser hair and a heavier hair growth there. Tweezing pulls it out at the root whereas shaving takes it off at the surface leaving the root intact and the capability for more to grow out stronger and thicker.
2006-10-04 11:19:22 · answer #7 · answered by Faerieeeiren 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A little of both.. :)
When you pluck, the hair grows back with a tapered tip (so it gets thinner at the end). However, when you shave, it blunts the end, so the hair feels thicker (on women's legs, for example) and may look thicker as well.
2006-10-04 11:20:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I shave my head (and face of course) but I don't measure the mean thickness. Why those hairstylists do not refer to any written description of such measurements (before and after) as a case study? Artists!
I have read a very interesting chapter about hair in a medical handbook (of my sister, she's an internist). But in US such books are secret (not in Europe): you can't buy them or lend in a public library if you are not a doctor or a student of a medical faculty, right?
2006-10-04 14:22:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it doesn't... what happens is that a regular hair is thinner at the end, and if you shave, then you're cutting it at a thicker part... it's going to feel thicker but it really isn't... whereas if you use tweezers you weaken the root and you pull the entire hair, but your hair keeps the same thickness all your life....
2006-10-04 11:31:08 · answer #10 · answered by maryska■ 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it does make your hair grow back thicker. I have caterpillars for eyebrows, and when I was smaller I was lazy and didn't tweeze, I shaved. It got worse. Tweezing makes it so that eventually the hair doesn't grow back as much, but shaving makes it grow in twice as fast and thicker.
2006-10-04 11:18:49 · answer #11 · answered by air_lobster 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋