Is it true that the more you get your hair cut the more it grows?

Question

My hairdresser alway says that if yu get your hair cut more it'll grow back longer - is this true? My friends think I'm silly believing her!?

Answer 1

The first week after haircut you always notice when it gets a bit longer. Why? because you just had it cut and you are watching out for it more. Truthfully your hair grows that much all the time. It depends on the person how fast your hair grows, but its always growing at the same speed.

Answer 2

Yes, she is misinformed. It's just an illusion. Hair grows 1/2 inch a month, not more, not less. Whether you cut it monthly, or once in a life time.
Lots of people come to believe their hair grows faster when they cut it because they have a hairstyle they want to keep. Once it grows 1/2" the style needs to be cut again. And again the next month.


The cut only affects the hair outside the follicle, which is dead. It cannot affect the hair in the follicle, deep under the scalp, which is still alive. It just SEEMS to do that, because we are now becoming aware of our hair growing.

Ask anyone with short hair who wants to grow it long. To them, it seems like it never grows. Either way, it's just an illusion, and our awareness of our hair growth.

Answer 3

Your hairdresser has a "vested interest" in convincing people to have their hair cut more often. Such promotes the growth of the hairdresser's business.

Hairdressers will also tell people that trimming "helps" hair grow. Unless it's short enough to make the roots cold, it doesn't affect growth. Trimming a strand of hair with a split end will delay further splitting *if* the trimming is done with absolutely sharp scissors. Trimming with dull scissors will prep *healthy* hair for splitting.

Using sharp scissors to trim healthy hair, even wispy never-trimmed ends, just makes that hair shorter. It does absolutely nothing to promote hair growth or condition.

It's *normal* to have hair of different lengths. It's normal for the tips of never-trimmed hair to be wispy, not split, but soft and wispy.

This is probably neither the first nor the last time you will be misled by people in authority. My favorite example of similar abuse is swimming instructors (multiple!) insisting I wouldn't float because I was being "willful" and refused to "relax" ... I eventually learned that skinny/slender people sink like rocks. It's a fact of life. It's only "silly" if the belief is retained after research/evidence to the contrary.

Answer 4

NO NO NO!!! its an old wives tale!
think about it, hair grows from the roots not from the ends so how would cutting it make it grow quicker?
the hairdresser probably meant if you get your hair trimmed on a regular basis it will grow back heathier and stronger.

tut tut some people! lol am kiddin xxxx

Answer 5

It is not true.
I would swear though living in a warmer climate such as FLORIDA hair seems to grow quicker.

Nutrition can cause hair to NOT grow at a normal rate.

I will inform you that as you age and testosterone levels
decrease
you grow hair where you DO NOT WANT . Examples : top of nose, inside your ears and out side on the rim of your ear.
Experience talking!

Answer 6

Yes its true.

A female friend of mine as a young stupid girl decided it would be fun to cut the hair below her tummy button down to her waistline.

Now it grows back quicker and quicker, and she is the only one of her female friends who has to cut this hair because it grows so quickly and prominently (and no she doesn't have hair growth problems elsewhere, only in this place where she shaved)

I think the hair folicles are designed to be stimulated when cut as a defence mechanism to conserve heat, aleftover from evolution.

Answer 7

i say that's it true cuz i got some what long hair like 4 inches of it and when i got it cut down to about 1 1/2 inches and like 3- 5days later my hair was back to it length now it about like 6-7 inches

Answer 8

yes that is true, my hair does not grow as much after so long so i get it cut often then it grows fast.

Answer 9

This is an old Hairdressers CON.

They tell you that so you that you go and get your haircut more often and they get MORE MONEY.

CON CON CON.

Answer 10

no.a trim does help the hair grow faster but then every1 has different growth rates for his/her hair