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  1. 06-26-2007, 02:31 AM #1
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    I've been shaving with a straight now for about a month. I just noticed today that the beard hair has changed a bit from what I remember. It seems to be growing in darker and coarser than I remember before this. Is there a change in growth with the different ways of shaving?

    My growth was always light colored and fine haired. Now it is comming in dark and coarse. Now this could be that I'm paying more attention to my growth than I was before. Or the fact that everything else is changing with time, that 40's thing I guess...
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  2. 06-26-2007, 03:06 AM #2
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    I've been using a straight for 2 years, but haven't noticed my hair getting courser or darker. I have noticed my skin especially on my neck go from sensitive to very tough over this time though...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gravitas View Post
    I've been using a straight for 2 years, but haven't noticed my hair getting courser or darker. I have noticed my skin especially on my neck go from sensitive to very tough over this time though...
    Haven't gotten to the tougher skin part haha but that would be a benifit.
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    It's part of growing older, and now that you're obsessing about your face you've finally noticed. If shaving made your hair darker and thicker men wouldn't need rogaine.
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    When I started wetshaving I thought that my beard was coming in thicker and coarser. As was stated, I was just paying more attention to it.

    Too bad I can't make my beard grow faster...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jfala View Post
    Too bad I can't make my beard grow faster...
    Hear that haha have all these soaps to try and the beard just will not grow in fast enough...
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    ]I've been shaving with a straight now for about a month. I just noticed today that the beard hair has changed a bit from what I remember. It seems to be growing in darker and coarser than I remember before this. Is there a change in growth with the different ways of shaving?


    I have noticed exactly the same thing as dwarvenchef, my beard got darker(jet black) thicker,and grows faster, my wife is the one who actually noticed it first , i believe this way of shaving ( that is more scrachy) stimulates the folicules .

    Also i read somewhere that when you use disposable blades you shave the hair under the skin, because the first blade pulls the hair and the second one slices it, when the hair retracts goes under the skin,This is why i think it seems it grows quicker , because we actually cut less., also because of that there is more problems of razor bumps and ingrown hairs...(arent the same thing???).

    so viva la straight!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by DwarvenChef View Post
    Hear that haha have all these soaps to try and the beard just will not grow in fast enough...
    Sometimes I even go as far as to just shave WTG, just to be assured of sufficient stubble for the next day . I have to say it is a nice feeling looking forward to shaving in the morning.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gravitas View Post
    Sometimes I even go as far as to just shave WTG, just to be assured of sufficient stubble for the next day . I have to say it is a nice feeling looking forward to shaving in the morning.
    Now there is an idea
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  10. 07-06-2007, 02:15 PM #10
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    Maybe you are just becoming a man Dwarf, j/k.

    My hair still doesn't grow that fast. I have not noticed it getting coarser though, but it seems to grow a bit faster this way then using the dreaded electric.
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