shaved hair grows back thicker?

[person_123]

we have all heard the saying that shaved hair grows back thicker. how much of this is an actual myth?

obviously, newly grown hairs are very thin at the tip, and if you cut them, you just see the base and it looks thicker.

i have these very fine hairs on my temple recession area and today i cut them off in an attempt to make them grow back thicker. will i succeed by trying this? this follows the same principle as shaving facial hair makes it grow thicker?

 

[nervx]

100% myth. if shaving your head made hair grow back thicker then we would have no bald people.

 

[Far Too Young]

Yeah. Ridiculous myth. The only way it conveivably make hair grow back thicker is with body hair where you would bring it all to approximately the same length - i.e. even up the apparent growth cycles. Even then, you would still have the same number of hairs in telogen. The anagen would just all be the same length.

 

[lain]

When I was a teenager I shaved the hair on one of my nipples... dont know why But the hair grew back noticeably thicker/more and it stayed that way for many many years... of course my body hair count continues to go up daily, and in new places, while on top its going down.

 

[Far Too Young]

You evened up the thickness of the hairs by shaving it. It was all growing in the same lenth. Also, your nipple hair was probably thickening considerably when you were a teenager.

 

[person_123]

oh i see now.
no harm can come from cutting/shaving the thinner hairs though can it? because i have already done so. it won't make that area less fertile, in terms of hair growth?

 

[lain]

oh i see now.
no harm can come from cutting/shaving the thinner hairs though can it? because i have already done so. it won't make that area less fertile, in terms of hair growth?

I buzzed my hair with clippers as short as it would go and It did no harm, nor did i notice any difference in my hair when it grew back.

 

[s.a.f]

Shaving it /growing it makes no difference whatsoever. I started shaving at nw3 and continued to progress to nw6 in the space of 3/4 yrs.

 

[Armando Jose]

Body hair is not equal to scalp hair. Possibly to shave the body hair make them more "strong", but it is not the same case with scalp hair.

Armando