Thread: Your gonna think i am nuts, but

A while back there was a thread showing hairs under a microscope that had been shaved in different ways. Disposable blades were somewhat uneven cut. Electric razors looked like it had a weed eater taken to it. Straights an DE were evenly cut. I think this is probably the cause of what you are experiencing. Makes sense to me at least. As I too have noticed as my hair re grows it feels more "full".

You're right...............check these pics out. Beard hairs under a scanning electron microscope: razor (left) versus electric shaver (right) - Imgur

The hair on the right looks like a small tree after I have run my bush hog over it. Smashed and thrashed by brute force, rather than the nice, clean cut of the other hair. Guess that explains it!

Yeah that's the pics I was thinking of.

Originally Posted by Kyguns

This effect could be caused by the razor cutting the hairs at a slant instead of straight across. As the beard grows out the day after a straight/DE shave, what you are feeling is a fraction of the full circumference of the stubble.
I noticed the same effect back when I was in the Navy. For a while I used a Braun electric for my daily shave. By the end of the day my stubble felt like 80 grit sandpaper. If I wet shaved, it took a couple of days before the stubble felt as harsh.

That would only apply if you had a one pass shave. Most of us shave up, down and across - and given that a hair is unaware of whether it's a straight SE or DE blade that has cut it, why would there be any difference?