Thread: Facial hair growth

They say that if you shave your head your hair can grow back differently. Curley or the direction may change. Although I have to say that I shaved my head in my younger years and all it did for me was made me look like a Nazi for about 6 months, not the look I was after.

Originally Posted by Babyface

I am trying to find out what impact shaving with a SR has on facial hair growth. Since I started shaving with a SR, I could swear that my beard is growing more rapidly and is heavier than in the past. I am also curious to know if shaving with a SR changes the pattern of hair growth depending on how it is cut by the blade. Any ideas??

It is a myth that if you shave an area hair will grow back thicker and heavier. There is no doubt about it.

What people are observing is that hair appears thicker the shorter it is. If you go from 1 mm to 0.5 millimeter it looks thicker. If you go from 0.5 milimeter to to 0.05 milimeter the hair starts to look wider than long.

Another obervation is when you shave hair it becomes a uniform length giving a dense look that appears to have increased the number of hairs.

When hair first comes out of the folicle it is slightly thicker from being surrounded with moisture. As it gets longer it loses some of it's moisture and thins a bit. So a close shave lets you observe thicker hair than it would be at, say, an inch, but this obervation isn't a transformation in the way your hair grows. This sounds like a big factor, but my bet is it is the least observable factor of the ones mentioned here.

Lastly, a hair that is .05 mm long hair that grows a couple mm a day looks like it's growing alot faster than a 1 mm hair that grows a couple mm a day (same speed). It's a relative ratio thing.

Hair grows in cycles pre-determined by genetics. There are three phases: growth, recede, rest....... then it falls out. The eyebrow growth cycle is about 4 months. The hair on your head (scalp) has a growth cycle of about 4 years. This is why eyebrows are a fixed length and the hair on your hair appears to grow eternally. It doesn't though, it maxes out at about (again) 4 years.

Shaving does not permently change your hair in any way I know of.

I do my head a couple of times a week. I wish it would make my hair grow back thicker