Why does shaved hair grow back darker

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Looking for more options? Try advanced search. This is a myth that has been around a long time…perhaps as long as people have been shaving. This is because shaving has no effect on the hair follicle that grows the hair. Shaving does give hair a blunter tip than the typical tapered end of a longer hair. Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post. I think we believe shaving causes hair to grow back thicker and darker because most of us, male and female, start shaving around the age of puberty when our hair is growing thicker and darker anyway.

Hi, mp, in which way? You mean even when it fully grow back? In zones where you started at 15 or at 30? You mean the blunt cut? Name required. Now, you might have also heard opposite claims. People peddling tubs of hot, painful wax in the name of fashion will often claim that after waxing, hair grows back sparser and thinner. But as physician Michael Vagg writes over at The Conversation , that's also a trick of perception: "Plucking and waxing removes the hair from the follicle at the base, meaning it will take a bit longer to regenerate and will come out with a tapered end rather than a blunt one.

So shave, pluck, and wax all you want - it's all the same to the hair. Now someone just needs to tell Kramer that whatever he's got going on down there is something else entirely:. View How much water should I be drinking? Is coffee good or bad for me? View Is coffee good or bad for me? Will cracking my knuckles give me arthritis?

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