trimming hair

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Does trimming hair on the body with scissors a bit make the hair grow back faster or thicker?
I'm not talking about shaving it to the skin, but just a little trim?

[Scooby-Doo]

I dont think it does.

[Belial]

No. Then again, you do get the same "squaring off the ends" that you get when you shave.

[Monkeybrains]

That rumor about hair growing back faster and thicker after cutting or shaving it is completely false.

[syntekz]

It is?

[Delphi]

Yup. Hair is dead protein. The follicle has no way of "knowing" that the hair beyond the skin has been cut. If a teenaged girl gets peach fuzz on her lip or legs and shaves it and it becomes darker and coarser, it was going to do that anyway. And that's because of hormone development, not from cutting the hair.

Regarding the follicle not knowing the length of the hair, then why doesn't hair grow forever? How does it know when to stop? The reason that hair only gets to a certain length on a part of the body like the arms or eyebrows is because the hair falls out of the follicle, not because it stopped growing.

[heathj]

My eyebrows hang down to my nose, what are you talking about?

[Delphi]

heh heh

At least you've got two, not one. ;)

[Scooby-Doo]

LOL :rolleyes:

[heathj]

Great way to seperate a unibrow is to clip the middle with nailclippers...

[Maki Riddington]

Originally posted by heathj
I have a killer looking unibrow guys/gals

[heathj]

Nah, don't have one at all, foo.

[McBain]

im going to find some unsuspecting girl with peach fuzz and shave her beard to test this theory for myself.