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...