Thread: Is it a myth?

Originally Posted by hults

I just think it grows faster/thicker as you get older. Unfortunately, it's in all the wrong places.

Ain't that the truth.....

Total myth.

Originally Posted by Alraz

I have noticed that people that do not shave legs or armpits tend to have softer hair in those areas than those that do shave. However, I would not draw any conclusions from this observation.

That's because hair which is not shaved and falls out due to natural exfoliation will grow back with a tapered end rather than a sharp cut end so it feels smoother.

X

I don't know about thicker but it sure is grayer.

Hi X, I would tend to think that you guys are right but let me tell you about my observation first. I purposely omitted a few details from my previous post. Some friends of mine decided to stop shaving their armpits and legs. They all had thicker (this was after months of not shaving) hair that my friends that NEVER shaved theirs. The sample was somewhat small ( but larger than 10) and I did not measure the thickness of the hair before, during;-) or after so I do not feel that I can draw any conclusions. Perhaps all of my friends that never shaved, had thinner hair to begin with but it stuck in my head that it was not the other way around. As I said, my observation does not provide scientific evidence one way or another. I would like to find out more about it though.

Al raz.

I believe it's a myth. One reason I've read that hair appears thicker after it grows back is because the base of the hair is coarser than if it's longer. So when you shave and it grows back, it only looks thicker at first, but only because the actual hair shaft is thicker closer to the base.

I could be completely wrong, but I seem to remember reading that somewhere....But firsthand I have not seen any correlation between shaving frequency and growth/thickness of hair.

Dave

Originally Posted by tpoof

seems like mine grows faster in the winter...

I've noticed the same thing in the last month or so when the weather has gone sub-zero... I need to start doing more outdoor work for a more manly look (and chopping wood naked outside in the thick snow is about as manly as it gets...)

MYTH!!!!
if it were true, i'd be grizzly adams right now. i spent 12 years in the army shaving everyday, got out, and it takes me like 3 weeks to grow a decent beard.

Originally Posted by hults

I just think it grows faster/thicker as you get older. Unfortunately, it's in all the wrong places.

Yup. I didn't go bald at all. The hair just repositioned.